Isaiah 29:5

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהָיָ֛ה כְּאָבָ֥ק דַּ֖ק הֲמ֣וֹן זָרָ֑יִךְ וּכְמֹ֤ץ עֹבֵר֙ הֲמ֣וֹן עָֽרִיצִ֔ים וְהָיָ֖ה לְפֶ֥תַע פִּתְאֹֽם

Transliteration

wĕ-hāyāh like-ʾāḇāq daq hămôn zārāyiḵ and-like-mōṣ ʿōḇēr hămôn ʿārîṣîm wĕ-hāyāh to-p̱etaʿ pitʾōm

Grammar Details

*wĕ-hāyāh*: verb, qal perfect with waw consecutive, 3rd person masculine singular - and it will be
*kĕ-ʾāḇāq*: preposition kaph + noun, masculine singular - like dust/powder
*daq*: adjective, masculine singular - fine/thin
*hămôn*: noun, masculine singular construct - multitude/crowd of
*zārāyiḵ*: noun, masculine plural with 2nd person feminine singular suffix - your strangers/enemies
*ū-ḵĕ-mōṣ*: conjunction waw + preposition kaph + noun, masculine singular - and like chaff
*ʿōḇēr*: verb, qal participle, masculine singular - passing/blowing away
*ʿārîṣîm*: adjective, masculine plural - terrifying/ruthless ones/tyrants
*lĕ-p̱etaʿ*: preposition lamed + noun, masculine singular - in an instant/suddenly
*pitʾōm*: adverb - suddenly/unexpectedly

Word Meanings

*ʾāḇāq*: dust/powder/fine particles
*daq*: fine/thin/small
*hămôn*: multitude/crowd/tumult/noise
*zārāyiḵ*: strangers/enemies/foreigners
*mōṣ*: chaff/husks
*ʿōḇēr*: passing/blowing away/transient
*ʿārîṣîm*: terrifying ones/tyrants/ruthless ones
*p̱etaʿ*: instant/moment/suddenly
*pitʾōm*: suddenly/unexpectedly/all at once

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Referenced Verses

1 Thess 5:3 : 3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
Isa 37:36 : 36 Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Isa 17:13-14 : 13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind. 14 And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.
Isa 30:13 : 13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
Isa 31:3 : 3 Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.
Isa 31:8 : 8 Then 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 25:5 : 5 Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.
Job 21:18 : 18 They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
Ps 1:4 : 4 The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
Ps 35:5 : 5 Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them.
Ps 46:5-6 : 5 God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved{H8735)}: God shall help{H8799)} her, and that right{H8800)} early. 6 The heathen raged{H8804)}, the kingdoms were moved{H8804)}: he uttered{H8804)} his voice, the earth melted{H8799)}.
Ps 76:5-6 : 5 The stouthearted are spoiled{H8709)}, they have slept{H8804)} their sleep: and none of the men of might have found{H8804)} their hands. 6 At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep{H8737)}.
Isa 10:16-19 : 16 Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire. 17 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day; 18 And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standardbearer fainteth. 19 And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.

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