Isaiah 30:28

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

and his breath is as an overflowing stream, that reacheth even unto the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction: and a bridle that causeth to err [shall be] in the jaws of the peoples.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְרוּחוֹ כְּנַחַל שׁוֹטֵף עַד־צַוָּאר יֶחֱצֶה לַהֲנָפָה גוֹיִם בְּנָפַת שָׁוְא וְרֶסֶן מַתְעֶה עַל לְחָיֵי עַמִּים׃

Transliteration

And his rûḥô like a naḥal šôṭēp reaching to [the] ṣawwāʾr yeḥĕṣeh, to lahănāpâ gôyim with [the] sieve of šāweʾ, and a resen matʿeh on [the] jaws of [the] peoples.

Grammar Details

*rûḥô*: feminine singular noun with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his breath/spirit
*naḥal*: masculine singular noun - stream/torrent
*šôṭēp*: qal participle masculine singular - overflowing/flooding
*ṣawwāʾr*: masculine singular noun - neck
*yeḥĕṣeh*: qal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - it divides/cuts/reaches
*lahănāpâ*: hiphil infinitive construct - to sift/winnow
*gôyim*: masculine plural noun - nations
*šāweʾ*: masculine singular noun - emptiness/vanity/falsehood
*resen*: masculine singular noun - bridle/halter
*matʿeh*: hiphil participle masculine singular - causing to err/mislead

Word Meanings

*rûḥô*: his breath/spirit/wind
*naḥal*: stream/torrent/wadi
*šôṭēp*: overflowing/flooding/sweeping
*ṣawwāʾr*: neck/throat
*yeḥĕṣeh*: it divides/cuts/reaches/halves
*lahănāpâ*: to sift/winnow/separate
*gôyim*: nations/peoples/gentiles
*šāweʾ*: emptiness/vanity/falsehood/destruction
*resen*: bridle/halter/restraint
*matʿeh*: causing to err/mislead/go astray

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Referenced Verses

Isa 37:29 : 29 Because of thy raging against me, and because thine arrogancy is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
Isa 8:8 : 8 and it shall sweep onward into Judah; it shall overflow and pass through; it shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of its wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.
Isa 11:4 : 4 but with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
2 Thess 2:8 : 8 And then shall be revealed the lawless one, whom the Lord Jesus shall slay with the breath of his mouth, and bring to nought by the manifestation of his coming;
2 Kgs 19:28 : 28 Because of thy raging against me, and because thine arrogancy is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
Amos 9:9 : 9 For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, like as [grain] is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least kernel fall upon the earth.
Hab 3:12-15 : 12 Thou didst march through the land in indignation; Thou didst thresh the nations in anger. 13 Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, For the salvation of thine anointed; Thou woundest the head out of the house of the wicked man, Laying bare the foundation even unto the neck. Selah. 14 Thou didst pierce with his own staves the head of his warriors: They came as a whirlwind to scatter me; Their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly. 15 Thou didst tread the sea with thy horses, The heap of mighty waters.
Matt 3:12 : 12 whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing-floor; and he will gather his wheat into the garner, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.
Luke 22:31 : 31 {G1161} {G2962} {G2036} Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have you, that he might sift you as wheat:
Ezek 14:7-9 : 7 For every one of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that separateth himself from me, and taketh his idols into his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet to inquire for himself of me; I Jehovah will answer him by myself: 8 and I will set my face against that man, and will make him an astonishment, for a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah. 9 And if the prophet be deceived and speak a word, I, Jehovah, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.
Hos 13:3 : 3 Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the dew that passeth early away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing-floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.
2 Sam 17:14 : 14 And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For Jehovah had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Jehovah might bring evil upon Absalom.
1 Kgs 22:20-22 : 20 And Jehovah said, Who shall entice Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead? And one said on this manner; and another said on that manner. 21 And there came forth a spirit, and stood before Jehovah, and said, I will entice him. 22 And Jehovah said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt entice him, and shalt prevail also: go forth, and do so.
Job 39:17 : 17 Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, Neither hath he imparted to her understanding.
Ps 18:15 : 15 Then the channels of waters appeared, And the foundations of the world were laid bare, At thy rebuke, O Jehovah, At the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.
Ps 32:9 : 9 Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding; Whose trappings must be bit and bridle to hold them in, [Else] they will not come near unto thee.
Prov 26:3 : 3 A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, And a rod for the back of fools.
Isa 19:3 : 3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst of it; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek unto the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
Isa 19:12-14 : 12 Where then are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now; and let them know what Jehovah of hosts hath purposed concerning Egypt. 13 The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Memphis are deceived; they have caused Egypt to go astray, that are the corner-stone of her tribes. 14 Jehovah hath mingled a spirit of perverseness in the midst of her; and they have caused Egypt to go astray in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.
Isa 28:17-18 : 17 And I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plummet; and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding-place. 18 And your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
Isa 29:6 : 6 She shall be visited of Jehovah of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with whirlwind and tempest, and the flame of a devouring fire.
Isa 33:10-12 : 10 Now will I arise, saith Jehovah; now will I lift up myself; now will I be exalted. 11 Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath is a fire that shall devour you. 12 And the peoples shall be as the burnings of lime, as thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire.
2 Thess 2:11 : 11 And for this cause God sendeth them a working of error, that they should believe a lie:
Heb 4:12 : 12 For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and quick to discern the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Rev 1:16 : 16 And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth proceeded a sharp two-edged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.
Rev 2:16 : 16 Repent therefore; or else {G1161} I come to thee quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of my mouth.

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