Isaiah 3:16

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר יְהוָ֗ה יַ֚עַן כִּ֤י גָֽבְהוּ֙ בְּנ֣וֹת צִיּ֔וֹן וַתֵּלַ֙כְנָה֙ נְטוּי֣וֹת גָּר֔וֹן וּֽמְשַׂקְּר֖וֹת עֵינָ֑יִם הָל֤וֹךְ וְטָפֹף֙ תֵּלַ֔כְנָה וּבְרַגְלֵיהֶ֖ם תְּעַכַּֽסְנָה

Transliteration

And-wayyōʾmer YHWH: yaʿan that gābəhû bənôt Ṣiyyôn and-tēlaknāh nəṭûyôt gārôn and-məśaqqərôt ʿênāyim, hālôk and-ṭāpōp tēlaknāh, and-with-raglêhem təʿakkasənāh

Grammar Details

*wayyōʾmer*: Qal imperfect consecutive, 3rd person masculine singular - and he said
*YHWH*: divine name
*yaʿan*: conjunction - because
*kî*: conjunction - that
*gābəhû*: Qal perfect, 3rd person common plural - they are haughty
*bənôt*: noun, feminine plural construct - daughters of
*Ṣiyyôn*: proper noun - Zion
*tēlaknāh*: Qal imperfect, 3rd person feminine plural - they walk
*nəṭûyôt*: Qal passive participle, feminine plural - stretched out/extended
*gārôn*: noun, masculine singular - throat/neck
*məśaqqərôt*: Piel participle, feminine plural - deceiving/flirting with
*ʿênāyim*: noun, feminine dual - eyes
*hālôk*: Qal infinitive absolute - walking
*ṭāpōp*: Qal infinitive absolute - taking short steps/mincing
*raglêhem*: noun, feminine dual with 3rd person feminine plural suffix - their feet
*təʿakkasənāh*: Piel imperfect, 3rd person feminine plural - they jingle/make anklets tinkle

Word Meanings

*ʾāmar*: said/spoke/commanded
*yaʿan*: because/on account of/since
*gāboah*: haughty/proud/lofty
*bat*: daughter/girl/young woman
*hālak*: walk/go/proceed
*nāṭâ*: stretched out/extended/outstretched
*gārôn*: throat/neck
*śāqar*: deceiving/flirting/seductive glancing
*ʿayin*: eye/sight/appearance
*ṭāpap*: taking short steps/mincing/tripping along
*regel*: foot/leg
*ʿākas*: jingle anklets/make a tinkling sound/rattle ornaments

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Isa 4:4 : 4 When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.
Isa 32:9-9 : 9 Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech. 10 Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come. 11 Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.
Ezek 16:49-50 : 49 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. 50 And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.
Song 3:11 : 11 Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.
Matt 21:5 : 5 Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.
Luke 23:28 : 28 But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children.
Isa 1:8 : 8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
Isa 3:18 : 18 In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon,
Prov 16:18 : 18 Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Prov 30:13 : 13 There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.
Zeph 3:11 : 11 In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me: for then I will take away out of the midst of thee them that rejoice in thy pride, and thou shalt no more be haughty because of my holy mountain.
Isa 24:4 : 4 The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.

Similar Verses (AI)

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Isa 3:17-20
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17Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts.
18In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon,
19The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
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15What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
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2I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman.
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15All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?
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10The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
Isa 37:22
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22This is the word which the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.
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21This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.
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20Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.
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11Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion.
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57Before thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time of thy reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all that are round about her, the daughters of the Philistines, which despise thee round about.
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4Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys, thy flowing valley, O backsliding daughter? that trusted in her treasures, saying, Who shall come unto me?
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8For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory.
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5Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.
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14Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem.
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Jer 8:19
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19Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities?
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14And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD.
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17Zion spreadeth forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her: the LORD hath commanded concerning Jacob, that his adversaries should be round about him: Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman among them.
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30How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord GOD, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman;
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14The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee, The city of the LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
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25Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms.
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