Isaiah 30:4

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּי־הָיוּ בְצֹעַן שָׂרָיו וּמַלְאָכָיו חָנֵס יַגִּיעוּ׃

Transliteration

For they hāyû in Ṣōʿan his śārâyw and his malʾākâyw [to] Ḥānēs yaggîʿû.

Grammar Details

*hāyû*: qal perfect 3rd person plural - they were/became
*Ṣōʿan*: proper noun - Zoan (city in Egypt)
*śārâyw*: masculine plural noun with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his officials/princes
*malʾākâyw*: masculine plural noun with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his messengers/envoys
*Ḥānēs*: proper noun - Hanes (city in Egypt)
*yaggîʿû*: hiphil imperfect 3rd person plural - they will reach/arrive

Word Meanings

*hāyû*: they were/became/have been
*Ṣōʿan*: Zoan (ancient city in Egypt's Nile Delta)
*śārâyw*: his officials/princes/leaders
*malʾākâyw*: his messengers/envoys/ambassadors
*Ḥānēs*: Hanes (Egyptian city, likely Heracleopolis)
*yaggîʿû*: they will reach/arrive/come to

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Isa 19:11 : 11 Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
Jer 43:7 : 7 So they came into the land of Egypt: for they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: thus came they even to Tahpanhes.
Ezek 30:14 : 14 And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments in No.
Ezek 30:18 : 18 At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened, when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt: and the pomp of her strength shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity.
Hos 7:11-12 : 11 Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria. 12 When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard.
Hos 7:16 : 16 They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.
Isa 57:9 : 9 And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase thyself even unto hell.
Num 13:22 : 22 And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were.(Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
2 Kgs 17:4 : 4 And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison.

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