Isaiah 38:19

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: The father to the children shall make known thy truth.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

חַ֥י חַ֛י ה֥וּא יוֹדֶ֖ךָ כָּמ֣וֹנִי הַיּ֑וֹם אָ֣ב לְבָנִ֔ים יוֹדִ֖יעַ אֶל־אֲמִתֶּֽךָ׃

Transliteration

Ḥay ḥay he yôdekā like-me the-yôm ʾāb to-bānîm yôdîaʿ to-ʾămittekā.

Grammar Details

• *Ḥay*: adjective, masculine singular - living
• *ḥay*: adjective, masculine singular - living
• *yôdekā*: hiphil imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - he thanks you
• *yôm*: masculine singular noun with definite article - the day
• *ʾāb*: masculine singular noun - father
• *bānîm*: masculine plural noun - sons/children
• *yôdîaʿ*: hiphil imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - he makes known
• *ʾămittekā*: feminine singular noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your truth

Word Meanings

• *Ḥay*: living, alive
• *yôdekā*: he thanks you, he praises you
• *yôm*: day, time, present
• *bānîm*: sons, children, descendants
• *yôdîaʿ*: he makes known, he declares, he informs
• *ʾămittekā*: your truth, your faithfulness, your reliability

Referenced Verses

• Deut 6:7 : 7 and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
• Ps 78:3-6 : 3 Which we have heard and known, And our fathers have told us. 4 We will not hide them from their children, Telling to the generation to come the praises of Jehovah, And his strength, and his wondrous works that he hath done. 5 For he established a testimony in Jacob, And appointed a law in Israel, Which he commanded our fathers, That they should make them known to their children; 6 That the generation to come might know [them], even the children that should be born; Who should arise and tell [them] to their children,
• Deut 4:9 : 9 Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes saw, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life; but make them known unto thy children and thy children's children;
• Joel 1:3 : 3 Tell ye your children of it, and [let] your children [tell] their children, and their children another generation.
• Deut 11:19 : 19 And ye shall teach them your children, talking of them, when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
• Josh 4:21-22 : 21 And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones? 22 Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.
• Gen 18:19 : 19 For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Jehovah, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Jehovah may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
• Exod 12:26-27 : 26 And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service? 27 that ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of Jehovah's passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped.
• Exod 13:14-15 : 14 And it shall be, when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What is this? that thou shalt say unto him, By strength of hand Jehovah brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage: 15 and it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that Jehovah slew all the first-born in the land of Egypt, both the first-born of man, and the first-born of beast: therefore I sacrifice to Jehovah all that openeth the womb, being males; but all the first-born of my sons I redeem.
• Ps 119:175 : 175 Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; And let thine ordinances help me.
• Ps 145:4 : 4 One generation shall laud thy works to another, And shall declare thy mighty acts.
• Ps 146:2 : 2 While I live will I praise Jehovah: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.
• Eccl 9:10 : 10 Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do [it] with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, whither thou goest.
• Ps 118:17 : 17 I shall not die, but live, And declare the works of Jehovah.