Isaiah 21:15

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּֽי־מִפְּנֵ֥י חֲרָב֖וֹת נָדָ֑דוּ מִפְּנֵ֣י ׀ חֶ֣רֶב נְטוּשָׁ֗ה וּמִפְּנֵי֙ קֶ֣שֶׁת דְּרוּכָ֔ה וּמִפְּנֵ֖י כֹּ֥בֶד מִלְחָמָֽה׃ ס

Transliteration

For-from face of ḥarābôt nādādū from face of ḥereb nəṭūšāh and from face of qešet dərūkāh and from face of kōbed milḥāmāh

Grammar Details

*ḥarābôt*: noun, feminine plural - swords
*nādādū*: verb, qal perfect, 3rd plural - they fled
*ḥereb*: noun, feminine singular - sword
*nəṭūšāh*: verb participle, passive, feminine singular - drawn
*qešet*: noun, feminine singular - bow
*dərūkāh*: verb participle, passive, feminine singular - bent/drawn
*kōbed*: noun, masculine singular construct - heaviness/severity of
*milḥāmāh*: noun, feminine singular - war/battle

Word Meanings

*mippənê*: from before/from the face of/because of
*ḥarābôt*: swords/weapons
*ḥereb nəṭūšāh*: drawn sword/unsheathed sword
*qešet dərūkāh*: bent bow/drawn bow/strung bow
*kōbed milḥāmāh*: severity of battle/weight of war/grievousness of conflict

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Job 6:19-20 : 19 The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them. 20 They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.
Isa 13:14 : 14 And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

Isa 22:3
76%
3All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, which have fled from far.
Isa 21:14
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14The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled.
Jer 6:25
74%
25Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side.
Job 20:24
74%
24He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.
Jer 46:5
74%
5Wherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned away back? and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: for fear was round about, saith the LORD.
Isa 21:16-17
2 verses
73%
16For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail:
17And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel hath spoken it.
Amos 2:14-16
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73%
14Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself:
15Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver himself: neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself.
16And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the LORD.
Ezek 7:15-17
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73%
15The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.
16But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity.
17All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.
Jer 15:2
72%
2And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith the LORD; Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for the captivity, to the captivity.
Jer 46:15-16
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72%
15Why are thy valiant men swept away? they stood not, because the LORD did drive them.
16He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword.
Jer 4:29
72%
29The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city shall be forsaken, and not a man dwell therein.
Isa 30:16
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16But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.
Jer 6:23
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23They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as men for war against thee, O daughter of Zion.
Jer 18:21
72%
21Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.
Jer 51:32
72%
32And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.
Deut 32:25
71%
25The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.
Jer 5:16
71%
16Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.
Josh 8:6
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6(For they will come out after us) till we have drawn them from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: therefore we will flee before them.
Isa 31:8
71%
8Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be discomfited.
Isa 13:14-15
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71%
14And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land.
15Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword.
Ezek 32:20
71%
20They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by the sword: she is delivered to the sword: draw her and all her multitudes.
Jer 51:50
71%
50Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.
Joel 2:7-8
2 verses
71%
7They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks:
8Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded.
Lam 4:9
71%
9They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.
Lev 26:36-37
2 verses
71%
36And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.
37And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.
1 Chr 19:14
71%
14So Joab and the people that were with him drew nigh before the Syrians unto the battle; and they fled before him.
Jer 51:3
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3Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host.
Jer 50:16
70%
16Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own land.
Isa 3:25
70%
25Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.
Lev 26:7
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7And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.
Job 5:20
70%
20In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.
Ps 37:14-15
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70%
14The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent{H8804)} their bow, to cast down{H8687)} the poor and needy, and to slay{H8800)} such as be of upright conversation.
15Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken{H8735)}.
Jer 48:45
70%
45They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon because of the force: but a fire shall come forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and shall devour the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.
Job 30:3
70%
3For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
Ps 21:12
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12Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.
Ezek 21:15
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15I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter.
Josh 8:15
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15And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.
Song 3:8
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8They all hold swords, being expert in war: every man hath his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night.
2 Kgs 7:7
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7Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life.
Lam 5:9
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9We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.