Isaiah 28:25

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הֲלוֹא אִם־שִׁוָּה פָנֶיהָ וְהֵפִיץ קֶצַח וְכַמֹּן יִזְרֹק וְשָׂם חִטָּה שׂוֹרָה וּשְׂעֹרָה נִסְמָן וְכֻסֶּמֶת גְּבֻלָתוֹ

Transliteration

?-not if-šiwwāh p̄ānêhā and-hēp̄îṣ qeṣaḥ and-ḵammōn yizrōq and-śām ḥiṭṭāh śôrāh and-śəʿōrāh nismān and-ḵussemeṯ gəḇulāṯô

Grammar Details

*šiwwāh*: piel perfect 3rd masculine singular - he has leveled
*p̄ānêhā*: masculine plural noun + 3rd feminine singular suffix - its surface
*hēp̄îṣ*: hiphil perfect 3rd masculine singular - he has scattered
*qeṣaḥ*: masculine singular noun - black cummin
*ḵammōn*: masculine singular noun - cummin
*yizrōq*: qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - he sows
*śām*: qal perfect 3rd masculine singular - he has placed
*ḥiṭṭāh*: feminine singular noun - wheat
*śôrāh*: feminine singular noun - in rows
*śəʿōrāh*: feminine singular noun - barley
*nismān*: niphal participle masculine singular - appointed/designated
*ḵussemeṯ*: feminine singular noun - spelt
*gəḇulāṯô*: feminine singular noun + 3rd masculine singular suffix - its border

Word Meanings

*šiwwāh*: has leveled/has made even
*p̄ānêhā*: its surface/its face
*hēp̄îṣ*: has scattered/has spread
*qeṣaḥ*: black cummin/black caraway
*yizrōq*: sows/casts/throws
*śôrāh*: in rows/in appointed place
*nismān*: appointed/designated/marked place
*ḵussemeṯ*: spelt/rye
*gəḇulāṯô*: its border/its boundary/its edge

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Referenced Verses

Exod 9:31-32 : 31 And the flax and the barley was smitten: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled. 32 But the wheat and the rie were not smitten: for they were not grown up.
Ezek 4:9 : 9 Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.
Matt 23:23 : 23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment , mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

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