Isaiah 38:11

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אָמַ֙רְתִּי֙ לֹא־אֶרְאֶ֣ה יָ֔הּ יָ֖הּ בְּאֶ֣רֶץ הַחַיִּ֑ים לֹא־אַבִּ֥יט אָדָ֛ם ע֖וֹד עִם־י֥וֹשְׁבֵי חָֽדֶל׃

Transliteration

ʾāmartî not-ʾerʾeh Yāh Yāh in-ʾereṣ the-ḥayyîm not-ʾabbîṭ ʾādām again with-yôšbê ḥādel.

Grammar Details

*ʾāmartî*: qal perfect, 1st person singular - I said
*ʾerʾeh*: qal imperfect, 1st person singular - I will see
*Yāh*: proper noun - Yah (shortened form of YHWH)
*ʾereṣ*: feminine singular construct - land of
*ḥayyîm*: masculine plural noun with definite article - the living
*ʾabbîṭ*: hiphil imperfect, 1st person singular - I will look at
*ʾādām*: masculine singular noun - man/mankind
*yôšbê*: qal participle masculine plural construct - inhabitants of
*ḥādel*: masculine singular noun - world of cessation

Word Meanings

*ʾerʾeh*: I will see, I will behold, I will perceive
*ʾereṣ*: land, earth, territory
*ḥayyîm*: the living, life
*ʾabbîṭ*: I will look at, I will see, I will gaze upon
*ʾādām*: man, mankind, humanity
*yôšbê*: inhabitants of, dwellers in, residents of
*ḥādel*: world of cessation, transitoriness, the fleeting world

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ps 27:13 : 13 I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
Ps 31:22 : 22 For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.
Ps 116:8-9 : 8 For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling. 9 I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.
Eccl 9:5-6 : 5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. 6 Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
Job 35:14-15 : 14 Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him. 15 But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:
Ps 6:4-5 : 4 Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies' sake. 5 For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?

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