Isaiah 3:1

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּי֩ הִנֵּ֨ה הָאָד֜וֹן יְהוָ֣ה צְבָא֗וֹת מֵסִ֤יר מִירוּשָׁלִַ֙ם֙ וּמִ֣יהוּדָ֔ה מַשְׁעֵ֖ן וּמַשְׁעֵנָ֑ה כֹּ֚ל מִשְׁעַן־לֶ֔חֶם וְכֹ֖ל מִשְׁעַן־מָֽיִם

Transliteration

For hinnēh the ʾādôn YHWH ṣəbāʾôt mēsîr from-Yərûšālaim and-from-Yəhûdāh mašʿēn and-mašʿēnāh, all mišʿan-leḥem and-all mišʿan-māyim

Grammar Details

*kî*: conjunction - for/because/that
*hinnēh*: demonstrative particle - behold/look
*hāʾādôn*: definite noun, masculine singular - the lord/master
*YHWH*: divine name
*ṣəbāʾôt*: noun, feminine plural construct - hosts/armies
*mēsîr*: Hiphil participle, masculine singular - removing/taking away
*Yərûšālaim*: proper noun - Jerusalem
*Yəhûdāh*: proper noun - Judah
*mašʿēn*: noun, masculine singular - support/stay
*mašʿēnāh*: noun, feminine singular - support/stay
*kōl*: noun, construct - all/every
*mišʿan*: noun, masculine singular construct - supply/support of
*leḥem*: noun, masculine singular - bread/food
*māyim*: noun, masculine plural - water

Word Meanings

*hinnēh*: behold/look/see
*ʾādôn*: lord/master/ruler
*YHWH*: LORD/Yahweh/Jehovah
*ṣəbāʾôt*: hosts/armies/battalions
*mēsîr*: removing/taking away/turning aside
*mašʿēn*: support/stay/staff
*mašʿēnāh*: feminine form of support/stay/staff
*mišʿan*: supply/support/sustenance
*leḥem*: bread/food/sustenance
*māyim*: water/waters/liquid

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Referenced Verses

Lev 26:26 : 26 And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.
Isa 1:24 : 24 Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:
Isa 2:22 : 22 Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?
Isa 5:13 : 13 Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
Isa 36:12 : 12 But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?
Isa 51:22 : 22 Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again:
Jer 37:21 : 21 Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.
Jer 38:9 : 9 My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for there is no more bread in the city.
Ezek 4:16-17 : 16 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment: 17 That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.
Ezek 14:13 : 13 Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it:
Ps 105:16 : 16 Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread.

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