Isaiah 37:31

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְיָ֨סְפָ֜ה פְּלֵיטַ֧ת בֵּית־יְהוּדָ֛ה הַנִּשְׁאָרָ֖ה שֹׁ֣רֶשׁ לְמָ֑טָּה וְעָשָׂ֥ה פְרִ֖י לְמָֽעְלָה׃

Transliteration

And yāsefāh pelêṭat house-of-Yehudāh the-nišʾārāh šōreš to-below and-ʿāśāh perî to-above.

Grammar Details

*yāsefāh*: Qal perfect, 3rd feminine singular - she shall increase/add/continue
*pelêṭat*: construct state, feminine singular - escaped remnant of
*Yehudāh*: proper noun - Judah
*nišʾārāh*: Niphal participle, feminine singular - being left/remaining
*šōreš*: masculine noun - root
*ʿāśāh*: Qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - it will make/do/produce
*perî*: masculine noun - fruit

Word Meanings

*yāsefāh*: shall increase/shall continue/shall add
*pelêṭat*: escaped remnant/survivors/those who escape
*šōreš*: root/foundation
*ʿāśāh*: produce/bear/make
*perî*: fruit/offspring/result

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Referenced Verses

Isa 27:6 : 6 In days to come shall Jacob take root; Israel shall blossom and bud; and they shall fill the face of the world with fruit.
2 Kgs 19:30-31 : 30 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward. 31 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and out of mount Zion they that shall escape: the zeal of Jehovah shall perform this.
Ps 80:9 : 9 Thou preparedst [room] before it, And it took deep root, and filled the land.
Isa 1:9 : 9 Except Jehovah of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, we should have been like unto Gomorrah.
Isa 6:13 : 13 And if there be yet a tenth in it, it also shall in turn be eaten up: as a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stock remaineth, when they are felled; so the holy seed is the stock thereof.
Isa 10:20-22 : 20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and they that are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again lean upon him that smote them, but shall lean upon Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. 21 A remnant shall return, [even] the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God. 22 For though thy people, Israel, be as the sand of the sea, [only] a remnant of them shall return: a destruction [is] determined, overflowing with righteousness.
Isa 65:9 : 9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains; and my chosen shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.
Jer 30:19 : 19 And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.
Jer 44:28 : 28 And they that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, few in number; and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose word shall stand, mine, or theirs.
Rom 9:27 : 27 And Isaiah crieth concerning Israel, If the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant that shall be saved:
Rom 11:5 : 5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
Gal 3:29 : 29 And if ye are Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, {G2532} heirs according to promise.

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