Isaiah 40:30

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְיִֽעֲפ֥וּ נְעָרִ֖ים וְיִגָ֑עוּ וּבַחוּרִ֖ים כָּשׁ֥וֹל יִכָּשֵֽׁלוּ׃

Transliteration

wěyîʿăpû něʿārîm wěyîgāʿû ûbaḥûrîm kāšôl yikkāšēlû

Grammar Details

*wěyîʿăpû*: conjunction + qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural - 'and will faint'
*něʿārîm*: noun, masculine plural - 'youths'
*wěyîgāʿû*: conjunction + qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural - 'and will grow weary'
*ûbaḥûrîm*: conjunction + noun, masculine plural - 'and young men'
*kāšôl*: qal infinitive absolute - 'utterly'
*yikkāšēlû*: niphal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural - 'will stumble'

Word Meanings

*yîʿăpû*: will faint/will grow tired
*něʿārîm*: youths/young men
*yîgāʿû*: will grow weary/will become exhausted
*baḥûrîm*: young men/chosen men
*kāšôl yikkāšēlû*: will utterly stumble/will certainly fall

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ps 33:16 : 16 There is no king saved by the multitude of a host: A mighty man is not delivered by great strength.
Isa 13:18 : 18 And [their] bows shall dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.
Amos 2:14 : 14 And flight shall perish from the swift; and the strong shall not strengthen his force; neither shall the mighty deliver himself;
Eccl 9:11 : 11 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Isa 9:17 : 17 Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for every one is profane and an evil-doer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Ps 34:10 : 10 The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger; But they that seek Jehovah shall not want any good thing.
Ps 39:5 : 5 Behold, thou hast made my days [as] handbreadths; And my life-time is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. {H5542}
Jer 6:11 : 11 Therefore I am full of the wrath of Jehovah; I am weary with holding in: pour it out upon the children in the street, and upon the assembly of young men together; for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days.
Jer 9:21 : 21 For death is come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces; to cut off the children from without, [and] the young men from the streets.

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