Isaiah 48:19

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיְהִ֤י כַחוֹל֙ זַרְעֶ֔ךָ וְצֶאֱצָאֵ֥י מֵעֶ֖יךָ כִּמְעֹתָ֑יו לֹֽא־יִכָּרֵ֧ת וְֽלֹא־יִשָּׁמֵ֛ד שְׁמ֖וֹ מִלְּפָנָֽי׃

Transliteration

And wayehî like ḥôl zarʿekā and ṣeʾĕṣāʾê mēʿêkā like meʿōtāyw not yikkārēt and not yishshāmēd shemô from before me

Grammar Details

• *wayehî*: qal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular + waw consecutive - and it would have been
• *ḥôl*: masculine singular - sand
• *zarʿekā*: masculine singular + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your seed/offspring
• *ṣeʾĕṣāʾê*: masculine plural construct - descendants of
• *mēʿêkā*: masculine plural + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your bowels/inward parts
• *meʿōtāyw*: masculine plural + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - its grains
• *yikkārēt*: niphal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - it would be cut off
• *yishshāmēd*: niphal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - it would be destroyed
• *shemô*: masculine singular + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his/its name

Word Meanings

• *ḥôl*: sand/dust
• *zarʿekā*: your seed/your offspring/your descendants
• *ṣeʾĕṣāʾê*: descendants of/offspring of/progeny of
• *mēʿêkā*: your bowels/your inward parts/your body
• *meʿōtāyw*: its grains/its particles/its contents
• *yikkārēt*: would be cut off/would be removed/would cease
• *yishshāmēd*: would be destroyed/would be eliminated/would perish

Referenced Verses

• Isa 10:22 : 22 For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.
• Gen 22:17 : 17 That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
• Jer 33:22 : 22 As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.
• Hos 1:10 : 10 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.
• Zeph 1:4 : 4 I will also stretch out mine hand upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, and the name of the Chemarims with the priests;
• Rom 9:27 : 27 Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
• Gen 13:16 : 16 And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.
• Josh 7:9 : 9 For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and shall environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do unto thy great name?
• Ruth 4:10 : 10 Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye are witnesses this day.
• 1 Kgs 9:7 : 7 Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:
• Ps 9:5 : 5 Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.
• Ps 109:13 : 13 Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
• Isa 9:14 : 14 Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.
• Isa 14:22 : 22 For I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the LORD.
• Isa 48:9 : 9 For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.
• Isa 56:5 : 5 Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.
• Isa 66:22 : 22 For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain.