Isaiah 45:16

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בּ֥וֹשׁוּ וְגַֽם־נִכְלְמ֖וּ כֻּלָּ֑ם יַחְדָּו֙ הָלְכ֣וּ בַכְּלִמָּ֔ה חָרָשֵׁ֖י צִירִֽים

Transliteration

bôšû and-also-niklĕmû all-of-them yaḥdāw hālĕkû in-kĕlimmâ ḥārāšê ṣîrîm

Grammar Details

*bôšû*: qal perfect, 3rd common plural - they are ashamed
*niklĕmû*: niphal perfect, 3rd common plural - they are humiliated
*yaḥdāw*: adverb - together/all of them
*hālĕkû*: qal perfect, 3rd common plural - they went/walked
*kĕlimmâ*: feminine singular noun - shame/disgrace
*ḥārāšê*: masculine plural construct - makers/craftsmen of
*ṣîrîm*: masculine plural noun - idols/images

Word Meanings

*bôšû*: they are ashamed/they are put to shame/they are disappointed
*niklĕmû*: they are humiliated/disgraced/put to shame
*yaḥdāw*: together/all of them/at once
*kĕlimmâ*: shame/disgrace/humiliation/confusion
*ḥārāšê*: makers/craftsmen/fabricators
*ṣîrîm*: idols/images/figures

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Referenced Verses

Isa 42:17 : 17 They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.
Isa 44:9 : 9 They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
Isa 44:11 : 11 Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed: and the workmen, they are of men: let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; yet they shall fear, and they shall be ashamed together.
Isa 45:20 : 20 Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.
Jer 2:26-27 : 26 As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets, 27 Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.
Jer 10:14-15 : 14 Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. 15 They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
Ps 97:7 : 7 Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods.
Isa 41:19 : 19 I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:

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