Isaiah 3:25

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

מְתַ֖יִךְ בַּחֶ֣רֶב יִפֹּ֑לוּ וּגְבוּרָתֵ֖ךְ בַּמִּלְחָמָֽה

Transliteration

mətayik by-the-ḥereb yippōlû and-gəbûrātēk in-the-milḥāmāh

Grammar Details

*mətayik*: noun, masculine plural with 2nd person feminine singular suffix - your men
*baḥereb*: preposition with definite noun, feminine singular - by the sword
*yippōlû*: Qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural - they will fall
*gəbûrātēk*: noun, feminine singular with 2nd person feminine singular suffix - your might/strength
*bammilḥāmāh*: preposition with definite noun, feminine singular - in the battle/war

Word Meanings

*mətîm*: men/males/warriors
*ḥereb*: sword/knife/weapon
*nāpal*: fall/be killed/die
*gəbûrāh*: might/strength/power
*milḥāmāh*: battle/war/fighting

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

2 Chr 29:9 : 9 For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
Isa 1:20 : 20 but if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken it.
Jer 11:22 : 22 therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine;
Jer 14:18 : 18 If I go forth into the field, then, behold, the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then, behold, they that are sick with famine! for both the prophet and the priest go about in the land, and have no knowledge.
Jer 18:21 : 21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, [and] their young men smitten of the sword in battle.
Jer 19:7 : 7 And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies will I give to be food for the birds of the heavens, and for the beasts of the earth.
Jer 21:9 : 9 He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he that goeth out, and passeth over to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey.
Lam 2:21 : 21 The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets; My virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword: Thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; Thou hast slaughtered, [and] not pitied.
Amos 9:10 : 10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, who say, The evil shall not overtake nor meet us.

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