Isaiah 45:6

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

that they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none besides me: I am Jehovah, and there is none else.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לְמַ֣עַן יֵדְע֗וּ מִמִּזְרַח־שֶׁ֙מֶשׁ֙ וּמִמַּ֣עֲרָבָ֔ה כִּי־אֶ֖פֶס בִּלְעָדָ֑י אֲנִ֥י יְהוָ֖ה וְאֵ֥ין עֽוֹד

Transliteration

For-maʿan yēdĕʿû from-mizraḥ-šemeš and-from-maʿărābâ that-ʾepes bilʿādāy ʾănî YHWH and-ʾên ʿôd

Grammar Details

*maʿan*: conjunction - so that/in order that
*yēdĕʿû*: qal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - they will know
*mizraḥ*: masculine singular construct - rising of
*šemeš*: feminine singular noun - sun
*maʿărābâ*: feminine singular noun - west/setting
*ʾepes*: adverb - nothing/none
*bilʿādāy*: preposition with 1st person suffix - without me/apart from me
*ʾănî*: 1st person singular pronoun - I
*ʾên*: particle of negation - there is not/there is no
*ʿôd*: adverb - still/yet/besides

Word Meanings

*yēdĕʿû*: they will know/they may know/they should know
*mizraḥ*-*šemeš*: east/rising of the sun/sunrise
*maʿărābâ*: west/setting/sunset/western region
*ʾepes*: nothing/none/zero/end
*bilʿādāy*: without me/apart from me/besides me

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Mal 1:11 : 11 For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name [shall be] great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense [shall be] offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name [shall be] great among the Gentiles, saith Jehovah of hosts.
Ps 46:10 : 10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.
Ps 83:18 : 18 That they may know that thou alone, whose name is Jehovah, Art the Most High over all the earth.
Ps 102:15-16 : 15 So the nations shall fear the name of Jehovah, And all the kings of the earth thy glory. 16 For Jehovah hath built up Zion; He hath appeared in his glory.
Isa 37:20 : 20 Now therefore, O Jehovah our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art Jehovah, even thou only.
Isa 45:5 : 5 I am Jehovah, and there is none else; besides me there is no God. I will gird thee, though thou hast not known me;
Ezek 38:23 : 23 And I will magnify myself, and sanctify myself, and I will make myself known in the eyes of many nations; and they shall know that I am Jehovah.
1 Sam 17:46-47 : 46 This day will Jehovah deliver thee into my hand; and I will smite thee, and take thy head from off thee; and I will give the dead bodies of the host of the Philistines this day unto the birds of the heavens, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel, 47 and that all this assembly may know that Jehovah saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is Jehovah's, and he will give you into our hand.
Ezek 39:21 : 21 And I will set my glory among the nations; and all the nations shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.

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