Isaiah 7:23

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, shall be for briers and thorns.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהָיָה֙ בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֔וּא יִֽהְיֶ֣ה כָל־מָק֗וֹם אֲשֶׁ֧ר יִֽהְיֶה־שָּׁ֛ם אֶ֥לֶף גֶּ֖פֶן בְּאֶ֣לֶף כָּ֑סֶף לַשָּׁמִ֥יר וְלַשַּׁ֖יִת יִֽהְיֶֽה׃

Transliteration

wə-hāyāh in-the-day the-that, yihyeh every-māqôm which yihyeh-there thousand gep̄en for-thousand kāsep̄, for-the-šāmîr and-for-the-šayiṯ yihyeh.

Grammar Details

*wə-hāyāh*: perfect with waw consecutive, 3rd person masculine singular - and it will be
*yihyeh*: imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - it will be
*māqôm*: noun, masculine singular - place
*gep̄en*: noun, common feminine singular - vine
*kāsep̄*: noun, masculine singular - silver/money
*šāmîr*: noun, masculine singular - thorn/brier
*šayiṯ*: noun, masculine singular - thorn/brier

Word Meanings

*wə-hāyāh*: and it will be/and it shall come to pass
*yihyeh*: it will be/it shall become
*māqôm*: place/location/spot
*gep̄en*: vine/grapevine
*kāsep̄*: silver/money/shekel
*šāmîr*: thorn/brier/bramble
*šayiṯ*: thorn/brier/bramble

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Referenced Verses

Isa 5:6 : 6 and I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned nor hoed; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
Isa 32:12-14 : 12 They shall smite upon the breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. 13 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city. 14 For the palace shall be forsaken; the populous city shall be deserted; the hill and the watch-tower shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
Jer 4:26 : 26 I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful field was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of Jehovah, [and] before his fierce anger.
Matt 21:33 : 33 Hear another parable: There was a man that was a householder, who planted a vineyard, and set a hedge about it, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into another country.
Heb 6:8 : 8 but if it beareth thorns and thistles, it is rejected and nigh unto a curse; whose end is to be burned.
Song 8:11-12 : 11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; He let out the vineyard unto keepers; Every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand [pieces] of silver. 12 My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: Thou, O Solomon, shalt have the thousand, And those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.

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