Isaiah 56:5

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Unto them will I give in my house and within my walls a memorial and a name better than of sons and of daughters; I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְנָתַתִּ֨י לָהֶ֜ם בְּבֵיתִ֤י וּבְחֽוֹמֹתַי֙ יָ֣ד וָשֵׁ֔ם ט֖וֹב מִבָּנִ֣ים וּמִבָּנ֑וֹת שֵׁ֤ם עוֹלָם֙ אֶתֶּן־ל֔וֹ אֲשֶׁ֖ר לֹ֥א יִכָּרֵֽת׃ ס

Transliteration

And nātattî to-them in-bêtî and in-ḥômōtay yād and šēm ṭôb from-bānîm and from-bānôt; šēm ʿôlām ʾettēn-to-him which not yikkārēt.

Grammar Details

• *wə*: conjunction - and
• *nātattî*: qal perfect, 1st person singular - I will give/set/put
• *lāhem*: preposition with 3rd masculine plural suffix - to them
• *bĕbêtî*: preposition with masculine singular noun and 1st person singular suffix - in my house
• *û*: conjunction - and
• *bĕḥômōtay*: preposition with feminine plural noun and 1st person singular suffix - in my walls
• *yād*: feminine singular noun - hand/place/monument/memorial
• *wā*: conjunction - and
• *šēm*: masculine singular noun - name/reputation/memorial
• *ṭôb*: adjective, masculine singular - good/pleasant/agreeable
• *mibbānîm*: preposition with masculine plural noun - from sons
• *mibbānôt*: preposition with feminine plural noun - from daughters
• *ʿôlām*: masculine singular noun - forever/eternity/perpetuity
• *ʾettēn*: qal imperfect, 1st person singular - I will give
• *lô*: preposition with 3rd masculine singular suffix - to him
• *ʾăšer*: relative pronoun - which/that
• *lōʾ*: negative particle - not
• *yikkārēt*: niphal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - it will be cut off/cut down

Word Meanings

• *yād*: hand/place/monument/memorial/portion
• *šēm*: name/reputation/memorial/monument
• *ṭôb*: good/better/pleasant/agreeable
• *ʿôlām*: everlasting/perpetual/ancient/forever
• *yikkārēt*: will be cut off/cut down/destroyed/removed

Referenced Verses

• Isa 55:13 : 13 Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir-tree; and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle-tree: and it shall be to Jehovah for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
• John 1:12 : 12 But as many as received him, to them gave he the right to become children of God, [even] to them that believe on his name:
• 1 Tim 3:15 : 15 but if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how men ought to behave themselves in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
• Rev 3:12 : 12 He that overcometh, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go out thence no {G3361} more: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God, and mine own new name.
• Heb 3:6 : 6 but Christ as a son, over his house; whose house are we, if we hold fast our boldness and the glorying of our hope firm unto the end.
• 1 John 3:1 : 1 Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God; and [such] we are. For this cause the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
• Rev 3:5 : 5 He that overcometh shall thus be arrayed in white garments; and I will in no wise blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
• Eph 2:22 : 22 in whom ye also are builded together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.
• 1 Sam 1:8 : 8 And Elkanah her husband said unto her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? am not I better to thee than ten sons?
• Isa 26:1 : 1 In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah: we have a strong city; salvation will he appoint for walls and bulwarks.
• Isa 48:19 : 19 thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the grains thereof: his name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.
• Isa 60:18 : 18 Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, desolation nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.
• Isa 62:12 : 12 And they shall call them The holy people, The redeemed of Jehovah: and thou shalt be called Sought out, A city not forsaken.
• Matt 16:18 : 18 And I also say unto thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.