Isaiah 29:7

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהָיָ֗ה כַּֽחֲלוֹם֙ חֲז֣וֹן לַ֔יְלָה הֲמוֹן֙ כָּל־הַגּוֹיִ֔ם הַצֹּבְאִ֖ים עַל־אֲרִיאֵ֑ל וְכָל־צֹבֶ֙יהָ֙ וּמְצֹ֣דָתָ֔הּ וְהַמְּצִיקִ֖ים לָֽהּ

Transliteration

wĕ-hāyāh like-ḥălôm ḥăzôn laylāh hămôn all-ha-gôyim ha-ṣōḇĕʾîm against-ʾărîʾēl and-all-ṣōḇeyhā and-mĕṣōdātāh and-ha-mĕṣîqîm to-her

Grammar Details

• *wĕ-hāyāh*: verb, qal perfect with waw consecutive, 3rd person masculine singular - and it will be
• *ka-ḥălôm*: preposition kaph + noun, masculine singular - like a dream
• *ḥăzôn*: noun, masculine singular construct - vision of
• *laylāh*: noun, masculine singular - night
• *hămôn*: noun, masculine singular construct - multitude/crowd of
• *kol-ha-gôyim*: particle kol + definite article + noun, masculine plural - all the nations
• *ha-ṣōḇĕʾîm*: definite article + verb, qal participle, masculine plural - the ones warring/fighting
• *ʿal-ʾărîʾēl*: preposition ʿal + proper noun - against Ariel
• *wĕ-ḵol-ṣōḇeyhā*: conjunction waw + particle kol + verb, qal participle, masculine plural with 3rd person feminine singular suffix - and all her fighters/attackers
• *ū-mĕṣōdātāh*: conjunction waw + noun, feminine singular with 3rd person feminine singular suffix - and her fortress/stronghold
• *wĕ-ha-mĕṣîqîm*: conjunction waw + definite article + verb, hiphil participle, masculine plural - and the ones causing distress
• *lāh*: preposition lamed + 3rd person feminine singular suffix - to her

Word Meanings

• *ḥălôm*: dream/dreaming
• *ḥăzôn*: vision/revelation
• *hămôn*: multitude/crowd/tumult
• *ṣōḇĕʾîm*: warring/fighting/attacking
• *ṣōḇeyhā*: her fighters/attackers/besiegers
• *mĕṣōdātāh*: her fortress/stronghold/siege works
• *mĕṣîqîm*: ones causing distress/afflicting/harassing

Referenced Verses

• Job 20:8 : 8 He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
• Ps 73:20 : 20 As a dream when one awaketh{H8687)}; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise{H8799)} their image.
• Zech 12:9 : 9 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
• Mic 4:11-12 : 11 Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion. 12 But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor.
• Nah 1:3-9 : 3 The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet. 4 He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth. 5 The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein. 6 Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him. 7 The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him. 8 But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies. 9 What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time. 10 For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry. 11 There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, a wicked counsellor. 12 Thus saith the LORD; Though they be quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through. Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more.
• Zech 12:3-5 : 3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it. 4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness. 5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.
• Zech 14:1-3 : 1 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. 2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city. 3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
• Zech 14:12-15 : 12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth. 13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour. 14 And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the heathen round about shall be gathered together, gold, and silver, and apparel, in great abundance. 15 And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the ass, and of all the beasts that shall be in these tents, as this plague.
• Rev 20:8-9 : 8 And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. 9 And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.
• Isa 17:14 : 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 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 41:11-12 : 11 Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish. 12 Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought.
• Jer 25:31-33 : 31 A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the LORD hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the sword, saith the LORD. 32 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth. 33 And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the ground.
• Jer 51:42-44 : 42 The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof. 43 Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby. 44 And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up: and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.