Isaiah 22:16

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high, and that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

מַה־לְּךָ֥ פֹה֙ וּמִ֣י לְךָ֣ פֹ֔ה כִּֽי־חָצַ֧בְתָּ לְּךָ֛ פֹּ֖ה קָ֑בֶר חֹצְבִ֤י מָרוֹם֙ קִבְר֔וֹ חֹקְקִ֥י בַסֶּ֖לַע מִשְׁכָּ֥ן לֽוֹ׃

Transliteration

What-to-you here and-who to-you here that-ḥāṣabtā to-you here qāber ḥōṣᵉbî mārôm qibrô ḥōqᵉqî in-the-selaʿ miškān to-him

Grammar Details

מַה־לְּךָ֥: interrogative + preposition with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - what to you
פֹה֙: adverb - here
וּמִ֣י: conjunction + interrogative - and who
לְךָ֣: preposition with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - to you
פֹ֔ה: adverb - here
כִּֽי־חָצַ֧בְתָּ: conjunction + Qal perfect, 2nd person masculine singular - that you have hewn
לְּךָ֛: preposition with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - for yourself
פֹּ֖ה: adverb - here
*qāber*: masculine singular - tomb/grave
*ḥōṣᵉbî*: Qal participle, masculine singular construct - hewer of
*mārôm*: masculine singular - height/high place
*qibrô*: masculine singular with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his tomb
*ḥōqᵉqî*: Qal participle, masculine singular construct - engraver of
בַסֶּ֖לַע: preposition + definite article + masculine singular - in the rock
*miškān*: masculine singular construct - dwelling place of
לֽוֹ: preposition with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - for himself

Word Meanings

*ḥāṣabtā*: you have hewn/cut out/excavated
*qāber*: tomb/grave/sepulchre
*ḥōṣᵉbî*: hewer/cutter/carver of
*mārôm*: height/high place/lofty place
*qibrô*: his tomb/grave
*ḥōqᵉqî*: engraver/carver of
*selaʿ*: rock/cliff/crag
*miškān*: dwelling place/habitation/resting place

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Matt 27:60 : 60 And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed.
2 Sam 18:18 : 18 Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which is in the king's dale: for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance: and he called the pillar after his own name: and it is called unto this day, Absalom's place.
2 Chr 16:14 : 14 And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the apothecaries' art: and they made a very great burning for him.
Job 3:14 : 14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
Isa 14:18 : 18 All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.
Isa 52:5 : 5 Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed.
Mic 2:10 : 10 Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.

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