Isaiah 35:8

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

[And a highway] [shall be there, and a way,] [and it shall be called] [The way] [of holiness;] [the unclean] [shall not pass over] [it; but is shall be for the redeemed]: the wayfaring men, yea fools, shall not err [therein].

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהָיָה־שָׁ֞ם מַסְל֣וּל וָדֶ֗רֶךְ וְדֶ֤רֶךְ הַקֹּ֙דֶשׁ֙ יִקָּ֣רֵא לָ֔הּ לֹֽא־יַעַבְרֶ֥נּוּ טָמֵ֖א וְהוּא־לָ֑מוֹ הֹלֵ֥ךְ דֶּ֛רֶךְ וֶאֱוִילִ֖ים לֹ֥א יִתְעֽוּ׃

Transliteration

wə-hāyāh-šām maslûl wā-derek wə-derek ha-qōdeš yiqqārēʾ lāh lōʾ-yaʿabrennû ṭāmēʾ wə-hûʾ-lāmô hōlēk derek we-ʾĕwîlîm lōʾ yitʿû

Grammar Details

• *wə*-*hāyāh*-*šām*: conjunction + perfect, 3rd masculine singular, Qal + adverb - and there will be there
• *maslûl*: masculine singular noun - highway
• *wā*-*derek*: conjunction + masculine singular noun - and way/road
• *wə*-*derek*: conjunction + masculine singular construct - and way of
• *ha-qōdeš*: definite article + masculine singular noun - the holiness
• *yiqqārēʾ*: imperfect, 3rd masculine singular, Niphal - it will be called
• *lāh*: preposition with 3rd feminine singular suffix - to it
• *lōʾ*-*yaʿabrennû*: negative particle + imperfect, 3rd masculine singular, Qal with 3rd masculine singular suffix - shall not pass over it
• *ṭāmēʾ*: masculine singular adjective - unclean
• *wə*-*hûʾ*-*lāmô*: conjunction + 3rd masculine singular pronoun + preposition with 3rd masculine plural suffix - and it is for them
• *hōlēk*: Qal active participle, masculine singular - one walking
• *derek*: masculine singular noun - way/road
• *we*-*ʾĕwîlîm*: conjunction + masculine plural noun - and fools
• *lōʾ*: negative particle - not
• *yitʿû*: imperfect, 3rd masculine plural, Qal - will go astray

Word Meanings

• *maslûl*: highway/raised way
• *derek*: way/road/path/journey
• *qōdeš*: holiness/sacredness/consecration
• *ṭāmēʾ*: unclean/impure/defiled
• *ʾĕwîlîm*: fools/foolish ones

Referenced Verses

• Matt 7:13-14 : 13 Enter ye in by the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many are they that enter in thereby. 14 For narrow is the gate, and straitened the way, that leadeth unto life, and few are they that find it.
• Heb 12:14 : 14 Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man shall see the Lord:
• Titus 2:11-14 : 11 For the grace of God hath appeared, bringing salvation to all men, 12 instructing us, to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously and godly in this present world; 13 looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; 14 who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a people for his own possession, zealous of good works.
• 2 Tim 1:9 : 9 who saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,
• 1 Pet 1:14-15 : 14 as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to your former lusts in [the time of] your ignorance: 15 but like as he who called you is holy, be ye yourselves also holy in all manner of living;
• Ezek 44:9 : 9 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any foreigners that are among the children of Israel.
• Isa 11:16 : 16 And there shall be a highway for the remnant of his people, that shall remain, from Assyria; like as there was for Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
• Isa 40:3-4 : 3 The voice of one that crieth, Prepare ye in the wilderness the way of Jehovah; make level in the desert a highway for our God. 4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low; and the uneven shall be made level, and the rough places a plain:
• Isa 42:16 : 16 And I will bring the blind by a way that they know not; in paths that they know not will I lead them; I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. These things will I do, and I will not forsake them.
• Isa 62:10 : 10 Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up an ensign for the peoples.
• Jer 31:21 : 21 Set thee up waymarks, make thee guide-posts; set thy heart toward the highway, even the way by which thou wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities.
• Isa 49:10-12 : 10 They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them will lead them, even by springs of water will he guide them. 11 And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted. 12 Lo, these shall come from far; and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.
• Isa 52:1 : 1 Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.
• Isa 19:23 : 23 In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria; and the Egyptians shall worship with the Assyrians.
• Isa 30:21 : 21 and thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it; when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
• 1 Pet 2:9-9 : 9 But ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a {G1519} people for [God's] own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: 10 who in time past were no people, but now are the people of God: who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
• 2 Pet 3:13 : 13 But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein {G3739} dwelleth righteousness.
• 1 John 2:20 : 20 And ye have an anointing from the Holy One, and ye know all the things.
• Isa 4:3 : 3 And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem;
• Isa 57:14 : 14 And he will say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.
• Heb 10:20-23 : 20 by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; 21 and [having] a great priest over the house of God; 22 let us draw near with a true heart in fulness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience: and having our body washed with pure water, 23 let us hold fast the confession of our hope that it waver not; for he is faithful that promised:
• Isa 60:21 : 21 Thy people also shall be all righteous; they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.
• 1 John 2:27 : 27 And as for you, the anointing which ye received of him abideth in you, and ye need {G5532} not that any one teach you; but as his anointing teacheth you; concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, ye abide in him.
• Rev 7:15-17 : 15 Therefore {G5124} are they before the throne of God; and they serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall spread his tabernacle over them. 16 They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun strike upon them, nor any heat: 17 for the Lamb that is in the midst of the throne shall be their shepherd, and shall guide them unto fountains of waters of life: and God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes.
• Rev 21:27 : 27 and there shall in no wise enter into it anything unclean, or he that maketh an abomination and a lie: but only they that are written in the Lamb's book of life.
• Joel 3:17 : 17 So shall ye know that I am Jehovah your God, dwelling in Zion my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.
• Zech 14:20-21 : 20 In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLY UNTO JEHOVAH; and the pots in Jehovah's house shall be like the bowls before the altar. 21 Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holy unto Jehovah of hosts; and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and boil therein: and in that day there shall be no more a Canaanite in the house of Jehovah of hosts.
• Matt 1:23 : 23 Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, And they shall call his name Immanuel; which is, being interpreted, God with us.
• John 7:17 : 17 If any man willeth to do his will, he shall know of the teaching, whether it is of God, or [whether] I speak from myself.
• John 14:6 : 6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one cometh unto the Father, but by me.
• Eph 2:10 : 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God afore prepared that we should walk in them.
• 1 Thess 4:7 : 7 For God {G2564} called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.
• Isa 33:8 : 8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: [the enemy] hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth not man.
• Ps 19:7 : 7 The law of Jehovah is perfect, restoring the soul: The testimony of Jehovah is sure, making wise the simple.
• Ps 23:4 : 4 Yea, thou I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for thou art with me; Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.
• Ps 25:8-9 : 8 Good and upright is Jehovah: Therefore will he instruct sinners in the way. 9 The meek will he guide in justice; And the meek will he teach his way.
• Ps 119:130 : 130 The opening of thy words giveth light; It giveth understanding unto the simple.
• Prov 4:18 : 18 But the path of the righteous is as the dawning light, That shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
• Prov 8:20 : 20 I walk in the way of righteousness, In the midst of the paths of justice;
• Isa 52:11 : 11 Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; cleanse yourselves, ye that bear the vessels of Jehovah.
• Jer 32:39-40 : 39 and I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them: 40 and I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good; and I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.
• Jer 50:4-5 : 4 In those days, and in that time, saith Jehovah, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together; they shall go on their way weeping, and shall seek Jehovah their God. 5 They shall inquire concerning Zion with their faces thitherward, [saying], Come ye, and join yourselves to Jehovah in an everlasting covenant that shall not be forgotten.
• Ezek 43:12 : 12 This is the law of the house: upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.