Isaiah 30:16

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

but ye said, No, for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַתֹּאמְרוּ לֹא־כִי עַל־סוּס נָנוּס עַל־כֵּן תְּנוּסוּן וְעַל־קַל נִרְכָּב עַל־כֵּן יִקַּלּוּ רֹדְפֵיכֶם׃

Transliteration

And you vattōʾmerû: "No, for upon sûs we will nānûs" - therefore you shall tenûsûn, "and upon qal we will nirkāb" - therefore yiqqallû your rōdepêḵem.

Grammar Details

*vattōʾmerû*: qal imperfect 2nd person masculine plural with waw consecutive - and you said
*sûs*: masculine singular noun - horse
*nānûs*: qal imperfect 1st person plural - we will flee
*tenûsûn*: qal imperfect 2nd person masculine plural - you will flee
*qal*: adjective masculine singular - swift/light
*nirkāb*: qal imperfect 1st person plural - we will ride
*yiqqallû*: qal imperfect 3rd person masculine plural - they will be swift
*rōdepêḵem*: qal participle masculine plural with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your pursuers

Word Meanings

*vattōʾmerû*: and you said/declared/answered
*sûs*: horse/steed
*nānûs*: we will flee/escape/run away
*tenûsûn*: you will flee/escape/run away
*qal*: swift/light/quick
*nirkāb*: we will ride/mount
*yiqqallû*: they will be swift/quick/faster
*rōdepêḵem*: your pursuers/chasers/those who pursue you

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Referenced Verses

Isa 31:1 : 1 Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek Jehovah!
Isa 31:3 : 3 Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit: and when Jehovah shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall stumble, and he that is helped shall fall, and they all shall be consumed together.
Jer 4:13 : 13 Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots [shall be] as the whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are ruined.
Jer 52:7 : 7 Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldeans were against the city round about;) and they went toward the Arabah.
Lam 4:19 : 19 Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the heavens: They chased us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
Amos 2:14-16 : 14 And flight shall perish from the swift; and the strong shall not strengthen his force; neither shall the mighty deliver himself; 15 neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver [himself]; neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself; 16 and he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith Jehovah.
Amos 9:1 : 1 I saw the Lord standing beside the altar: and he said, Smite the capitals, that the thresholds may shake; and break them in pieces on the head of all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: there shall not one of them flee away, and there shall not one of them escape.
Mic 1:13 : 13 Bind the chariot to the swift steed, O inhabitant of Lachish: she was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion; for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee.
Hab 1:8 : 8 Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves; and their horsemen press proudly on: yea, their horsemen come from far; they fly as an eagle that hasteth to devour.
Deut 28:25 : 25 Jehovah will cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies; thou shalt go out one way against them, and shalt flee seven ways before them: and thou shalt be tossed to and from among all the kingdoms of the earth.
Deut 28:49 : 49 Jehovah will bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;
2 Kgs 25:5 : 5 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.
Ps 33:17 : 17 A horse is a vain thing for safety; Neither doth he deliver any by his great power.
Ps 147:10 : 10 He delighteth not in the strength of the horse: He taketh no pleasure in the legs of a man.
Isa 5:26-30 : 26 And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss for them from the end of the earth; and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly. 27 None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken: 28 whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent; their horses' hoofs shall be accounted as flint, and their wheels as a whirlwind: 29 their roaring shall be like a lioness, they shall roar like young lions; yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and carry it away safe, and there shall be none to deliver. 30 And they shall roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold, darkness and distress; and the light is darkened in the clouds thereof.
Isa 10:28-32 : 28 He is come to Aiath, he is passed through Migron; at Michmash he layeth up his baggage; 29 they are gone over the pass; they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah trembleth; Gibeah of Saul is fled. 30 Cry aloud with thy voice, O daughter of Gallim! hearken, O Laishah! O thou poor Anathoth! 31 Madmenah is a fugitive; the inhabitants of Gebim flee for safety. 32 This very day shall he halt at Nob: he shaketh his hand at the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.

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