Isaiah 13:8

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְֽנִבְהָ֓לוּ ׀ צִירִ֤ים וַֽחֲבָלִים֙ יֹֽאחֵז֔וּן כַּיּוֹלֵדָ֖ה יְחִיל֑וּן אִ֤ישׁ אֶל־רֵעֵ֙הוּ֙ יִתְמָ֔הוּ פְּנֵ֥י לְהָבִ֖ים פְּנֵיהֶֽם׃

Transliteration

Wə-niḇhālû ṣîrîm wa-ḥăḇālîm yōʾḥēzûn like-the-yôlēḏāh yəḥîlûn ʾîš to-rēʿēhû yiṯmāhû pənê ləhāḇîm pənêhem

Grammar Details

*wəniḇhālû*: conjunction + verb, Niphal perfect, 3rd masculine plural - and they will be dismayed/terrified
*ṣîrîm*: noun, masculine, plural - pangs/labor pains
*waḥăḇālîm*: conjunction + noun, masculine, plural - and pains/birth pangs
*yōʾḥēzûn*: verb, Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural + paragogic nun - they will seize/grasp
*kayyôlēḏāh*: preposition + noun, feminine, singular + definite article - like the woman giving birth
*yəḥîlûn*: verb, Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural + paragogic nun - they will writhe/be in anguish
*ʾîš*: noun, masculine, singular - man/each one
*ʾel-rēʿēhû*: preposition + noun, masculine, singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - to his neighbor/companion
*yiṯmāhû*: verb, Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - they will be astonished/amazed
*pənê*: noun, masculine, plural, construct - faces of
*ləhāḇîm*: noun, masculine, plural - flames
*pənêhem*: noun, masculine, plural + 3rd masculine plural suffix - their faces

Word Meanings

*niḇhālû*: will be dismayed/terrified/alarmed/panic
*ṣîrîm*: pangs/labor pains/distress
*ḥăḇālîm*: pains/birth pangs/sorrows
*yōʾḥēzûn*: will seize/grasp/take hold of
*yəḥîlûn*: will writhe/be in anguish/twist in pain
*yiṯmāhû*: will be astonished/amazed/look in horror
*pənê ləhāḇîm pənêhem*: their faces are faces of flames/their faces are flushed

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Referenced Verses

Isa 26:17 : 17 Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD.
Nah 2:10 : 10 She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.
Isa 21:3-4 : 3 Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it. 4 My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.
Ps 48:5-6 : 5 They saw{H8804)} it, and so they marvelled{H8804)}; they were troubled{H8738)}, and hasted away{H8738)}. 6 Fear took hold{H8804)} upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail{H8802)}.
John 16:21 : 21 A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
1 Thess 5:3 : 3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
Jer 4:31 : 31 For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.
Jer 30:6 : 6 Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?
Jer 50:43 : 43 The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail.
Dan 5:5-6 : 5 In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. 6 Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.
Joel 2:6 : 6 Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.

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