Isaiah 40:6

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

ק֚וֹל אֹמֵ֣ר קְרָ֔א וְאָמַ֖ר מָ֣ה אֶקְרָ֑א כָּל־הַבָּשָׂ֣ר חָצִ֔יר וְכָל־חַסְדּ֖וֹ כְּצִ֥יץ הַשָּׂדֶֽה׃

Transliteration

qôl ʾōmēr qěrāʾ wěʾāmar māh ʾeqrāʾ kol-habbāśār ḥāṣîr wěkol-ḥasdô kěṣîṣ haśśādeh

Grammar Details

*qôl*: noun, masculine singular - 'voice'
*ʾōmēr*: qal participle, masculine singular - 'saying'
*qěrāʾ*: qal imperative, 2nd person masculine singular - 'call/cry out'
*wěʾāmar*: conjunction + qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - 'and he said'
*māh*: interrogative pronoun - 'what'
*ʾeqrāʾ*: qal imperfect, 1st person singular - 'shall I call/cry'
*kol-habbāśār*: noun, masculine singular construct + definite article + noun, masculine singular - 'all the flesh'
*ḥāṣîr*: noun, masculine singular - 'grass'
*wěkol-ḥasdô*: conjunction + noun, masculine singular construct + noun, masculine singular with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - 'and all its faithfulness'
*kěṣîṣ*: preposition + noun, masculine singular construct - 'like flower of'
*haśśādeh*: definite article + noun, masculine singular - 'the field'

Word Meanings

*qôl ʾōmēr*: a voice says/a voice saying
*qěrāʾ*: call out/proclaim/cry
*māh ʾeqrāʾ*: what shall I call/what should I cry
*ḥāṣîr*: grass/vegetation
*ḥasdô*: its faithfulness/its constancy/its goodliness/its beauty
*ṣîṣ*: flower/blossom

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Referenced Verses

Ps 102:11 : 11 My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
Ps 103:15-16 : 15 As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. 16 For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
Job 14:2 : 2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Jas 1:10-11 : 10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. 11 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
1 Pet 1:24-25 : 24 For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: 25 But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
Ps 90:5-6 : 5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood{H8804)}; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up{H8799)}. 6 In the morning it flourisheth{H8686)}, and groweth up{H8804)}; in the evening it is cut down{H8787)}, and withereth{H8804)}.
Ps 92:7 : 7 When the wicked spring{H8800)} as the grass, and when all the workers{H8802)} of iniquity do flourish{H8686)}; it is that they shall be destroyed{H8736)} for ever:
Isa 58:1 : 1 Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
Isa 61:1-2 : 1 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; 2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
Jer 2:2 : 2 Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.
Jer 31:6 : 6 For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto the LORD our God.
Hos 5:8 : 8 Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud at Bethaven, after thee, O Benjamin.
Isa 12:6 : 6 Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.
Isa 37:27 : 27 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.
Isa 40:3 : 3 The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

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