Isaiah 13:2

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice unto them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

עַ֤ל הַר־נִשְׁפֶּה֙ שְֽׂאוּ־נֵ֔ס הָרִ֥ימוּ ק֖וֹל לָהֶ֑ם הָנִ֣יפוּ יָ֔ד וְיָבֹ֖אוּ פִּתְחֵ֥י נְדִיבִֽים׃

Transliteration

Upon har-nišpeh śəʾû-nēs hārîmû qôl to-them hānîp̄û yād wə-yāḇōʾû piṯḥê nəḏîḇîm

Grammar Details

*ʿal*: preposition - upon/over
*har-nišpeh*: compound noun, masculine, singular - bare/high mountain
*śəʾû*: verb, Qal imperative, masculine plural - lift up/raise
*nēs*: noun, masculine, singular - banner/standard/signal
*hārîmû*: verb, Hiphil imperative, masculine plural - raise up/lift up
*qôl*: noun, masculine, singular - voice/sound
*lāhem*: preposition with 3rd masculine plural suffix - to them
*hānîp̄û*: verb, Hiphil imperative, masculine plural - wave/beckon
*yād*: noun, feminine, singular - hand
*wə-yāḇōʾû*: conjunction + verb, Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - and they will come/enter
*piṯḥê*: noun, masculine, plural, construct - gates/entrances of
*nəḏîḇîm*: noun, masculine, plural - nobles/willing ones/princes

Word Meanings

*har-nišpeh*: bare mountain/high mountain/lookout mountain
*nēs*: banner/standard/signal flag
*nəḏîḇîm*: nobles/willing ones/princes/those of noble rank

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Referenced Verses

Isa 5:26 : 26 And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly:
Jer 50:2 : 2 Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.
Jer 51:58 : 58 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.
Jer 51:25 : 25 Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain.
Isa 45:1-3 : 1 Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut; 2 I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron: 3 And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the LORD, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.
Isa 10:32 : 32 As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
Isa 18:3 : 3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.
Jer 51:27-28 : 27 Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers. 28 Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion.
Isa 11:12 : 12 And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
Isa 11:15 : 15 And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod.

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