Isaiah 38:21

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Now Isaiah had said, Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a plaster upon the boil, and he shall recover.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר יְשַׁעְיָ֔הוּ יִשְׂא֖וּ דְּבֶ֣לֶת תְּאֵנִ֑ים וְיִמְרְח֥וּ עַֽל־הַשְּׁחִ֖ין וְיֶֽחִי׃

Transliteration

And-wayyōʾmer Yəšaʿyāhû yiśʾû dəbelet təʾēnîm and-wəyimrəḥû upon-the-šəḥîn and-wəyeḥî.

Grammar Details

*wayyōʾmer*: qal imperfect with waw consecutive, 3rd person masculine singular - and he said
*Yəšaʿyāhû*: proper noun - Isaiah
*yiśʾû*: qal imperfect jussive, 3rd person masculine plural - let them take
*dəbelet*: feminine singular construct - cake of
*təʾēnîm*: feminine plural noun - figs
*wəyimrəḥû*: qal imperfect jussive, 3rd person masculine plural with waw conjunction - and let them apply
*šəḥîn*: masculine singular noun with definite article - boil
*wəyeḥî*: qal imperfect jussive, 3rd person masculine singular with waw conjunction - and let him live

Word Meanings

*yiśʾû*: let them take, let them carry
*dəbelet*: cake of, lump of
*təʾēnîm*: figs, fig trees
*wəyimrəḥû*: and let them apply, and let them spread, and let them rub
*šəḥîn*: boil, sore, inflammation
*wəyeḥî*: and let him live, and he will recover

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Referenced Verses

2 Kgs 20:7-8 : 7 And Isaiah said, Take a cake of figs. And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered. 8 And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What shall be the sign that Jehovah will heal me, and that I shall go up unto the house of Jehovah the third day?
Mark 7:33 : 33 And he took him aside {G2398} from the multitude privately, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat, and touched his tongue;
John 9:6 : 6 When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and anointed {G1909} his eyes with the clay,

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