Isaiah 16:1

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

שִׁלְחוּ־כַ֥ר מֹשֵֽׁל־אֶ֖רֶץ מִסֶּ֣לַע מִדְבָּ֑רָה אֶל־הַ֖ר בַּת־צִיּֽוֹן

Transliteration

šilḥû-kar mōšēl-ʾereṣ from-selaʿ midbārāh to-the-har bat-ṣiyyôn

Grammar Details

*šilḥû*: imperative, masculine plural - send/send forth
*kar*: noun, masculine singular - lamb/ram
*mōšēl*: participle, masculine singular construct - ruler of
*ʾereṣ*: noun, feminine singular - land/earth
*selaʿ*: noun, masculine singular with preposition מִ (from) - rock/Sela (location)
*midbārāh*: noun, masculine singular with directional ה - toward the wilderness
*har*: noun, masculine singular construct - mountain of
*bat*: noun, feminine singular construct - daughter of
*ṣiyyôn*: proper noun - Zion

Word Meanings

*šilḥû*: send/send forth/dispatch
*kar*: lamb/ram/tribute animal
*selaʿ*: rock/Sela (place name in Edom)
*midbārāh*: toward the wilderness/to the desert
*bat-ṣiyyôn*: daughter of Zion/personification of Jerusalem

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

2 Kgs 3:4 : 4 And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster, and rendered unto the king of Israel an hundred thousand lambs, and an hundred thousand rams, with the wool.
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.
2 Kgs 14:7 : 7 He slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand, and took Selah by war, and called the name of it Joktheel unto this day.
Ezra 7:17 : 17 That thou mayest buy speedily with this money bullocks, rams, lambs, with their meat offerings and their drink offerings, and offer them upon the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem.
Isa 42:11 : 11 Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.
Mic 4:8 : 8 And thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem.
2 Sam 8:2 : 2 And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down to the ground; even with two lines measured he to put to death, and with one full line to keep alive. And so the Moabites became David's servants, and brought gifts.

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