Isaiah 16:8

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֣י שַׁדְמוֹת֩ חֶשְׁבּ֨וֹן אֻמְלָ֜ל גֶּ֣פֶן שִׂבְמָ֗ה בַּעֲלֵ֤י גוֹיִם֙ הָלְמ֣וּ שְׂרוּקֶּ֔יהָ עַד־יַעְזֵ֥ר נָגָ֖עוּ תָּ֣עוּ מִדְבָּ֑ר שְׁלֻ֣חוֹתֶ֔יהָ נִטְּשׁ֖וּ עָ֥בְרוּ יָֽם

Transliteration

For šadmôt ḥešbôn ʾumlāl gepen śibmāh baʿălê gôyim hālmû śərûqqeyhā until-yaʿzēr nāgāʿû tāʿû midbār šəluḥôteyhā niṭṭəšû ʿābrû yām

Grammar Details

*šadmôt*: noun, feminine plural construct - fields of
*ḥešbôn*: proper noun - Heshbon
*ʾumlāl*: verb, pulal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - are withered/dried up
*gepen*: noun, feminine singular construct - vine of
*śibmāh*: proper noun - Sibmah
*baʿălê*: noun, masculine plural construct - lords/masters of
*gôyim*: noun, masculine plural - nations
*hālmû*: verb, qal perfect, 3rd plural - have struck down/beaten
*śərûqqeyhā*: noun, masculine plural with 3rd feminine singular suffix - its choice branches
*yaʿzēr*: proper noun - Jazer
*nāgāʿû*: verb, qal perfect, 3rd plural - they reached
*tāʿû*: verb, qal perfect, 3rd plural - they wandered
*midbār*: noun, masculine singular - wilderness/desert
*šəluḥôteyhā*: noun, feminine plural with 3rd feminine singular suffix - its shoots/tendrils
*niṭṭəšû*: verb, niphal perfect, 3rd plural - were spread out/extended
*ʿābrû*: verb, qal perfect, 3rd plural - they crossed over
*yām*: noun, masculine singular - sea

Word Meanings

*ʾumlāl*: withered/dried up/languishing
*baʿălê gôyim*: lords of nations/rulers of nations/masters of nations
*hālmû*: struck down/beaten/broken
*śərûqqeyhā*: its choice branches/its vine tendrils/its red shoots
*tāʿû midbār*: wandered into the wilderness/strayed into the desert
*šəluḥôteyhā*: its shoots/its tendrils/its extensions
*niṭṭəšû*: were spread out/were extended/were abandoned

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Referenced Verses

Num 32:38 : 38 And Nebo, and Baalmeon,(their names being changed,) and Shibmah: and gave other names unto the cities which they builded.
Isa 15:4 : 4 And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous unto him.
Isa 16:9 : 9 Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen.
Isa 24:7 : 7 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.
Jer 27:6-7 : 6 And now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts of the field have I given him also to serve him. 7 And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the very time of his land come: and then many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him.
Jer 48:32 : 32 O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer: thy plants are gone over the sea, they reach even to the sea of Jazer: the spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage.
Josh 13:19 : 19 And Kirjathaim, and Sibmah, and Zarethshahar in the mount of the valley,
Josh 13:25 : 25 And their coast was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, unto Aroer that is before Rabbah;
2 Sam 1:21 : 21 Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.
Isa 10:7 : 7 Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.
Num 32:3 : 3 Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon,

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