Isaiah 43:16

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Thus saith the LORD, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כֹּ֚ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה הַנּוֹתֵ֥ן בַּיָּ֖ם דָּ֑רֶךְ וּבְמַ֥יִם עַזִּ֖ים נְתִיבָֽה׃

Transliteration

Thus ʾāmar YHWH, the one nôtēn in the yām dārek, and in mayim ʿazzîm a nətîbâ.

Grammar Details

• *ʾāmar*: perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - said/declared
• *YHWH*: proper noun - LORD/Yahweh
• *nôtēn*: participle, masculine singular with definite article - the one giving
• *yām*: noun, masculine singular with definite article - the sea
• *dārek*: noun, feminine singular - way/road
• *mayim*: noun, masculine plural - waters
• *ʿazzîm*: adjective, masculine plural - mighty/strong
• *nətîbâ*: noun, feminine singular - path

Word Meanings

• *nôtēn*: giving/placing/making
• *yām*: sea/ocean/large body of water
• *dārek*: way/road/path
• *mayim*: waters/floods
• *ʿazzîm*: mighty/strong/fierce
• *nətîbâ*: path/track/course

Referenced Verses

• Isa 51:10 : 10 Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?
• Ps 77:19 : 19 Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known{H8738)}.
• Ps 78:13 : 13 He divided{H8804)} the sea, and caused them to pass through{H8686)}; and he made the waters to stand{H8686)} as an heap.
• Ps 106:9 : 9 He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.
• Ps 114:3-5 : 3 The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back. 4 The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs. 5 What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?
• Ps 136:13-15 : 13 To him which divided the Red sea into parts: for his mercy endureth for ever: 14 And made Israel to pass through the midst of it: for his mercy endureth for ever: 15 But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea: for his mercy endureth for ever.
• Isa 11:15-16 : 15 And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod. 16 And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
• Isa 43:2 : 2 When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.
• Exod 14:16 : 16 But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.
• Exod 14:21-22 : 21 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. 22 And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
• Exod 14:29 : 29 But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
• Josh 3:13-16 : 13 And it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of the feet of the priests that bear the ark of the LORD, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of Jordan, that the waters of Jordan shall be cut off from the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand upon an heap. 14 And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents, to pass over Jordan, and the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people; 15 And as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water,(for Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the time of harvest,) 16 That the waters which came down from above stood and rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that is beside Zaretan: and those that came down toward the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, failed, and were cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho.
• Neh 9:11 : 11 And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters.
• Ps 74:13-14 : 13 Thou didst divide{H8782)} the sea by thy strength: thou brakest{H8765)} the heads of the dragons in the waters. 14 Thou brakest{H8765)} the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest{H8799)} him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
• Isa 51:15 : 15 But I am the LORD thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The LORD of hosts is his name.
• Isa 63:11-13 : 11 Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people, saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock? where is he that put his holy Spirit within him? 12 That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name? 13 That led them through the deep, as an horse in the wilderness, that they should not stumble?
• Jer 31:35 : 35 Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name:
• Rev 16:12 : 12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.