Isaiah 41:15

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הִנֵּ֣ה שַׂמְתִּ֗יךְ לְמוֹרַג֙ חָר֣וּץ חָדָ֔שׁ בַּ֖עַל פִּֽיפִיּ֑וֹת תָּד֤וּשׁ הָרִים֙ וְתָדֹ֔ק וּגְבָע֖וֹת כַּמֹּ֥ץ תָּשִֽׂים׃

Transliteration

Behold śamtîḵ ləmôraḡ ḥārûṣ ḥāḏāš baʿal pîpîyôt tāḏûš hārîm wətāḏōq ûḡəḇāʿôt kammōṣ tāśîm

Grammar Details

*śamtîḵ*: verb, qal perfect 1st person common singular + 2nd person feminine singular suffix - I have made you
*ləmôraḡ*: preposition + noun, masculine singular - into a threshing sledge
*ḥārûṣ*: adjective, masculine singular - sharp
*ḥāḏāš*: adjective, masculine singular - new
*baʿal*: noun, masculine singular construct - possessor of
*pîpîyôt*: noun, feminine plural - edges/blades
*tāḏûš*: verb, qal imperfect 2nd person masculine singular - you will thresh
*hārîm*: noun, masculine plural - mountains
*wətāḏōq*: conjunction + verb, qal imperfect 2nd person masculine singular - and you will crush
*ûḡəḇāʿôt*: conjunction + noun, feminine plural - and hills
*kammōṣ*: preposition + article + noun, masculine singular - like the chaff
*tāśîm*: verb, qal imperfect 2nd person masculine singular - you will make/set

Word Meanings

*śamtîḵ*: I have made you/set you/placed you/appointed you
*ləmôraḡ*: threshing sledge/threshing instrument
*ḥārûṣ*: sharp/pointed/decisive
*ḥāḏāš*: new/fresh
*baʿal pîpîyôt*: owner of edges/with many teeth/double-edged
*tāḏûš*: you will thresh/trample/pulverize
*wətāḏōq*: and you will crush/pulverize
*kammōṣ*: like chaff/like straw

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Referenced Verses

Mic 4:13 : 13 Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the LORD, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.
Hab 3:12 : 12 Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger.
Zech 4:7 : 7 Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it.
2 Cor 10:4-5 : 4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) 5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
Ps 18:42 : 42 Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.
Isa 21:10 : 10 O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.
Isa 28:27 : 27 For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.

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