Isaiah 20:3

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And the LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia;

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר יְהוָ֔ה כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר הָלַ֛ךְ עַבְדִּ֥י יְשַׁעְיָ֖הוּ עָר֣וֹם וְיָחֵ֑ף שָׁלֹ֤שׁ שָׁנִים֙ א֣וֹת וּמוֹפֵ֔ת עַל־מִצְרַ֖יִם וְעַל־כּֽוּשׁ׃

Transliteration

wayyōʾmer YHWH kaʾasher hālak ʿabdī yəshaʿyāhū ʿārōm wəyāḥēp shālōsh shānīm ʾōth ūmōpēth upon-miṣrayim and upon-kūsh

Grammar Details

*wayyōʾmer*: waw consecutive + 3rd masculine singular Qal imperfect - and he said
*YHWH*: proper noun - divine name
*kaʾasher*: preposition + relative particle - just as
*hālak*: 3rd masculine singular Qal perfect - walked/went
*ʿabdī*: noun + 1st person singular suffix - my servant
*yəshaʿyāhū*: proper noun - Isaiah
*ʿārōm*: adjective - naked/lightly clothed
*wəyāḥēp*: waw conjunctive + adjective - and barefoot
*shālōsh*: cardinal number - three
*shānīm*: plural noun - years
*ʾōth*: noun - sign
*ūmōpēth*: waw conjunctive + noun - and wonder/portent
*miṣrayim*: proper noun - Egypt
*kūsh*: proper noun - Cush/Ethiopia

Word Meanings

*ʿārōm*: naked/minimally clothed/without outer garment
*ʾōth*: sign/symbol/omen
*mōpēth*: wonder/portent/prophetic sign
*kūsh*: Cush/Ethiopia/Nubia (region south of Egypt)

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Isa 8:18 : 18 Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.
Isa 18:1-7 : 1 Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia: 2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled! 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. 4 For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest. 5 For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches. 6 They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them. 7 In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.
Isa 37:9 : 9 And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is come forth to make war with thee. And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
Isa 43:3 : 3 For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.
Ezek 4:5-6 : 5 For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. 6 And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.
Rev 11:2-3 : 2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months. 3 And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
Num 14:34 : 34 After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.

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