Isaiah 43:16

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Thus saith Jehovah, who maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כֹּ֚ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה הַנּוֹתֵ֥ן בַּיָּ֖ם דָּ֑רֶךְ וּבְמַ֥יִם עַזִּ֖ים נְתִיבָֽה׃

Transliteration

Thus ʾāmar YHWH, the one nôtēn in the yām dārek, and in mayim ʿazzîm a nətîbâ.

Grammar Details

• *ʾāmar*: perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - said/declared
• *YHWH*: proper noun - LORD/Yahweh
• *nôtēn*: participle, masculine singular with definite article - the one giving
• *yām*: noun, masculine singular with definite article - the sea
• *dārek*: noun, feminine singular - way/road
• *mayim*: noun, masculine plural - waters
• *ʿazzîm*: adjective, masculine plural - mighty/strong
• *nətîbâ*: noun, feminine singular - path

Word Meanings

• *nôtēn*: giving/placing/making
• *yām*: sea/ocean/large body of water
• *dārek*: way/road/path
• *mayim*: waters/floods
• *ʿazzîm*: mighty/strong/fierce
• *nətîbâ*: path/track/course

Referenced Verses

• Isa 51:10 : 10 Is it not thou that driedst up the sea, the waters of the great deep; that madest the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?
• Ps 77:19 : 19 Thy way was in the sea, And thy paths in the great waters, And thy footsteps were not known.
• Ps 78:13 : 13 He clave the sea, and caused them to pass through; And he made the waters to stand as a heap.
• Ps 106:9 : 9 He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up: So he led them through the depths, as through a wilderness.
• Ps 114:3-5 : 3 The sea saw it, and fled; The Jordan was driven back. 4 The mountains skipped like rams, The little hills like lambs. 5 What aileth thee, O thou sea, that thou fleest? Thou Jordan, that thou turnest back?
• Ps 136:13-15 : 13 To him that divided the Red Sea in sunder; For his lovingkindness [endureth] for ever; 14 And made Israel to pass through the midst of it; For his lovingkindness [endureth] for ever; 15 But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red Sea; For his lovingkindness [endureth] for ever:
• Isa 11:15-16 : 15 And Jehovah will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his scorching wind will he wave his hand over the River, and will smite it into seven streams, and cause men to march over dryshod. 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 43:2 : 2 When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned, neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.
• Exod 14:16 : 16 And lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thy hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go into the midst of the sea on dry ground.
• Exod 14:21-22 : 21 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and Jehovah caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all the night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. 22 And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
• Exod 14:29 : 29 But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
• Josh 3:13-16 : 13 And it shall come to pass, when the soles of the feet of the priests that bear the ark of Jehovah, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan shall be cut off, even the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand in one heap. 14 And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents, to pass over the Jordan, the priests that bare the ark of the covenant being before the people; 15 and when they that bare the ark were come unto the Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brink of the water (for the Jordan overfloweth all its banks all the time of harvest,) 16 that the waters which came down from above stood, and rose up in one heap, a great way off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those that went down toward the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho.
• Neh 9:11 : 11 And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their pursuers thou didst cast into the depths, as a stone into the mighty waters.
• Ps 74:13-14 : 13 Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: Thou brakest the heads of the sea-monsters in the waters. 14 Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces; Thou gavest him to be food to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
• Isa 51:15 : 15 For I am Jehovah thy God, who stirreth up the sea, so that the waves thereof roar: Jehovah of hosts is his name.
• Isa 63:11-13 : 11 Then he remembered the days of old, Moses [and] his people, [saying], Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? where is he that put his holy Spirit in the midst of them? 12 that caused his glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses? that divided the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name? 13 that led them through the depths, as a horse in the wilderness, so that they stumbled not?
• Jer 31:35 : 35 Thus saith Jehovah, who giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirreth up the sea, so that the waves thereof roar; Jehovah of hosts is his name:
• Rev 16:12 : 12 And the sixth {G32} poured out his bowl upon the great river, the [river] Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way might by made ready for the kings that [come] from the {G2246} sunrising.