Isaiah 6:12

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

and Jehovah have removed men far away, and the forsaken places be many in the midst of the land.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְרִחַ֥ק יְהוָ֖ה אֶת־הָאָדָ֑ם וְרַבָּ֥ה הָעֲזוּבָ֖ה בְּקֶ֥רֶב הָאָֽרֶץ׃

Transliteration

Wəriḥaq YHWH ʾet-the ʾādām wərabbāh the ʿăzûbāh in qereb the ʾārets.

Grammar Details

*Wəriḥaq*: waw conjunction + piel perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - and has removed far away
*YHWH*: divine name - LORD
*ʾet*: direct object marker
*ʾādām*: noun, masculine singular with definite article - the man/mankind
*wərabbāh*: waw conjunction + qal perfect, 3rd person feminine singular - and is great/many
*ʿăzûbāh*: noun, feminine singular with definite article - the forsaken place/abandonment
*qereb*: noun, masculine singular construct - midst of
*ʾārets*: noun, feminine singular with definite article - the land/earth

Word Meanings

*rāḥaq*: remove far/distance/send far away
*ʾādām*: man/mankind/people
*rābāh*: become great/increase/multiply
*ʿăzûbāh*: forsaken place/abandonment/desolation
*qereb*: midst/among/within/interior
*ʾārets*: land/earth/territory/ground

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Referenced Verses

Jer 4:29 : 29 Every city fleeth for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they go into the thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city is forsaken, and not a man dwelleth therein.
Jer 12:7 : 7 I have forsaken my house, I have cast off my heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.
Jer 15:4 : 4 And I will cause them to be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.
Jer 52:28-30 : 28 This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty; 29 in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons; 30 in the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty and five persons: all the persons were four thousand and six hundred.
Lam 5:20 : 20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, [And] forsake us so long time?
Rom 11:1-2 : 1 I say then, Did God cast off his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God did not cast off his people which he foreknew. Or know ye not what the scripture saith of Elijah? how he pleadeth with God against Israel:
Rom 11:15 : 15 For if the casting away of them [is] the reconciling of the world, what [shall] the receiving [of them be], but life from the dead?
Deut 28:64 : 64 And Jehovah will scatter thee among all peoples, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou nor thy fathers, even wood and stone.
2 Kgs 25:11 : 11 And the residue of the people that were left in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to the king of Babylon, and the residue of the multitude, did Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carry away captive.
2 Kgs 25:21 : 21 And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive out of his land.
Isa 26:15 : 15 Thou hast increased the nation, O Jehovah, thou hast increased the nation; thou art glorified; thou hast enlarged all the borders of the land.

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