Isaiah 45:2

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אֲנִי֙ לְפָנֶ֣יךָ אֵלֵ֔ךְ וַהֲדוּרִ֖ים *אושר **אֲיַשֵּׁ֑ר דַּלְת֤וֹת נְחוּשָׁה֙ אֲשַׁבֵּ֔ר וּבְרִיחֵ֥י בַרְזֶ֖ל אֲגַדֵּֽעַ

Transliteration

ʾănî before-you ʾēlēk and-hădûrîm ʾăyaššēr daltôt nĕḥûšâ ʾăšabbēr and-bĕrîḥê barzel ʾăgaddēaʿ

Grammar Details

*ʾănî*: 1st person singular pronoun - I
*ʾēlēk*: qal imperfect, 1st person singular - I will go
*hădûrîm*: masculine plural adjective/noun - swellings/mountains/crooked places
*ʾăyaššēr*: piel imperfect, 1st person singular - I will make straight/level
*daltôt*: feminine plural construct - doors of
*nĕḥûšâ*: feminine singular noun - bronze/copper
*ʾăšabbēr*: piel imperfect, 1st person singular - I will break/shatter
*bĕrîḥê*: masculine plural construct - bars of
*barzel*: masculine singular noun - iron
*ʾăgaddēaʿ*: piel imperfect, 1st person singular - I will cut down/chop off

Word Meanings

*hădûrîm*: swellings/mountains/crooked places/difficult terrain
*ʾăyaššēr*: I will make straight/I will level/I will make smooth
*ʾăšabbēr*: I will break/I will shatter/I will break in pieces
*ʾăgaddēaʿ*: I will cut down/I will chop off/I will cut in pieces

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Referenced Verses

Ps 107:16 : 16 For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.
Isa 40:4 : 4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:
Luke 3:5 : 5 Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth;
Isa 42:16 : 16 And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.
Jer 51:30 : 30 The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.
Isa 13:4-9 : 4 The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the LORD of hosts mustereth the host of the battle. 5 They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land. 6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty. 7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt: 8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames. 9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it. 10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine. 11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. 12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir. 13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger. 14 And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land. 15 Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword. 16 Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished. 17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
Acts 1:15 : 15 And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples, and said ,(the number of names together were about an hundred and twenty,)

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