Isaiah 44:27

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

that saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers;

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הָאֹמֵ֥ר לַצּוּלָ֖ה חֳרָ֑בִי וְנַהֲרֹתַ֖יִךְ אוֹבִֽישׁ׃

Transliteration

hāʾōmēr laṣṣûlāh ḥŏrāḇî wənahărōṯayiḵ ʾôḇîš

Grammar Details

*hāʾōmēr*: definite article + verb, qal participle, masculine singular - the one saying
*laṣṣûlāh*: preposition + definite article + noun, feminine singular - to the deep
*ḥŏrāḇî*: verb, qal imperative, feminine singular - be dry
*wənahărōṯayiḵ*: conjunction + noun, feminine plural construct with 2nd person feminine singular suffix - and your rivers
*ʾôḇîš*: verb, hiphil imperfect, 1st person singular - I will dry up

Word Meanings

*ṣûlāh*: deep/deep water/depths
*ḥŏrāḇî*: be dry/be dried up/be desolate
*nahărōṯayiḵ*: your rivers/your streams/your waterways
*ʾôḇîš*: I will dry up/I will parch/I will make dry

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Referenced Verses

Isa 42:15 : 15 I will lay waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools.
Jer 50:38 : 38 A drought is upon her waters, and they shall be dried up; for it is a land of graven images, and they are mad over idols.
Jer 51:36 : 36 Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.
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.
Jer 51:32 : 32 and the passages are seized, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.
Isa 43:16 : 16 Thus saith Jehovah, who maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters;
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.
Ps 74:15 : 15 Thou didst cleave fountain and flood: Thou driedst up mighty rivers.
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.

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