Isaiah 44:3

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֤י אֶצָּק־מַ֙יִם֙ עַל־צָמֵ֔א וְנֹזְלִ֖ים עַל־יַבָּשָׁ֑ה אֶצֹּ֤ק רוּחִי֙ עַל־זַרְעֶ֔ךָ וּבִרְכָתִ֖י עַל־צֶאֱצָאֶֽיךָ׃

Transliteration

kî ʾeṣṣāq-mayim ʿal-ṣāmēʾ wə-nōzlîm ʿal-yabbāšāh ʾeṣṣōq rûḥî ʿal-zarʿeḵā û-ḇirḵātî ʿal-ṣeʾĕṣāʾeyḵā

Grammar Details

• *kî*: conjunction - for/because
• *ʾeṣṣāq-mayim*: verb, qal imperfect, 1st person singular + noun, masculine plural - I will pour waters
• *ʿal-ṣāmēʾ*: preposition + adjective, masculine singular - upon thirsty
• *wə-nōzlîm*: conjunction + noun, masculine plural - and flowing streams
• *ʿal-yabbāšāh*: preposition + noun, feminine singular - upon dry ground
• *ʾeṣṣōq*: verb, qal imperfect, 1st person singular - I will pour
• *rûḥî*: noun, feminine singular construct with 1st person singular suffix - my spirit
• *ʿal-zarʿeḵā*: preposition + noun, masculine singular with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - upon your seed/offspring
• *û-ḇirḵātî*: conjunction + noun, feminine singular construct with 1st person singular suffix - and my blessing
• *ʿal-ṣeʾĕṣāʾeyḵā*: preposition + noun, masculine plural construct with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - upon your descendants

Word Meanings

• *ʾeṣṣāq*: I will pour/pour out/spill
• *ṣāmēʾ*: thirsty/thirsty one/thirsty land
• *nōzlîm*: flowing streams/floods/liquid flows
• *rûḥî*: my spirit/breath/wind
• *zarʿeḵā*: your seed/offspring/descendants
• *ṣeʾĕṣāʾeyḵā*: your descendants/offspring/progeny

Referenced Verses

• Joel 2:28 : 28 And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:
• Acts 2:17 : 17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
• Isa 59:21 : 21 As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.
• John 7:37-39 : 37 {G1161} In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. 38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. 39 (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)
• Rev 21:6 : 6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
• Prov 1:23 : 23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
• Joel 3:18 : 18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim.
• Zech 12:10 : 10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
• Acts 2:39 : 39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
• Isa 32:15 : 15 Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.
• Ps 107:35 : 35 He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings.
• Acts 10:45 : 45 And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost.
• Isa 41:17 : 17 When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
• Isa 43:19-20 : 19 Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert. 20 The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.
• Titus 3:5-6 : 5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; 6 Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;
• Ps 78:15-16 : 15 He clave{H8762)} the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink{H8686)} as out of the great depths. 16 He brought{H8686)} streams{H8802)} also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down{H8686)} like rivers.
• Ezek 34:26 : 26 And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing.
• Ezek 39:29 : 29 Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.
• Isa 48:21 : 21 And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out.
• Isa 35:6-7 : 6 Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert. 7 And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
• Ps 63:1 : 1 A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, thou art my God; early will I seek{H8762)} thee: my soul thirsteth{H8804)} for thee, my flesh longeth{H8804)} for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
• Isa 65:23 : 23 They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them.
• Acts 2:33 : 33 Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear.
• Rev 22:17 : 17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
• Isa 49:10 : 10 They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.
• Isa 61:9 : 9 And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the LORD hath blessed.
• Matt 12:43 : 43 {G1161} When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.
• Isa 32:2 : 2 And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.