Isaiah 56:5

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְנָתַתִּ֨י לָהֶ֜ם בְּבֵיתִ֤י וּבְחֽוֹמֹתַי֙ יָ֣ד וָשֵׁ֔ם ט֖וֹב מִבָּנִ֣ים וּמִבָּנ֑וֹת שֵׁ֤ם עוֹלָם֙ אֶתֶּן־ל֔וֹ אֲשֶׁ֖ר לֹ֥א יִכָּרֵֽת׃ ס

Transliteration

And nātattî to-them in-bêtî and in-ḥômōtay yād and šēm ṭôb from-bānîm and from-bānôt; šēm ʿôlām ʾettēn-to-him which not yikkārēt.

Grammar Details

• *wə*: conjunction - and
• *nātattî*: qal perfect, 1st person singular - I will give/set/put
• *lāhem*: preposition with 3rd masculine plural suffix - to them
• *bĕbêtî*: preposition with masculine singular noun and 1st person singular suffix - in my house
• *û*: conjunction - and
• *bĕḥômōtay*: preposition with feminine plural noun and 1st person singular suffix - in my walls
• *yād*: feminine singular noun - hand/place/monument/memorial
• *wā*: conjunction - and
• *šēm*: masculine singular noun - name/reputation/memorial
• *ṭôb*: adjective, masculine singular - good/pleasant/agreeable
• *mibbānîm*: preposition with masculine plural noun - from sons
• *mibbānôt*: preposition with feminine plural noun - from daughters
• *ʿôlām*: masculine singular noun - forever/eternity/perpetuity
• *ʾettēn*: qal imperfect, 1st person singular - I will give
• *lô*: preposition with 3rd masculine singular suffix - to him
• *ʾăšer*: relative pronoun - which/that
• *lōʾ*: negative particle - not
• *yikkārēt*: niphal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - it will be cut off/cut down

Word Meanings

• *yād*: hand/place/monument/memorial/portion
• *šēm*: name/reputation/memorial/monument
• *ṭôb*: good/better/pleasant/agreeable
• *ʿôlām*: everlasting/perpetual/ancient/forever
• *yikkārēt*: will be cut off/cut down/destroyed/removed

Referenced Verses

• Isa 55:13 : 13 Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
• John 1:12 : 12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
• 1 Tim 3:15 : 15 But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
• Rev 3:12 : 12 Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.
• Heb 3:6 : 6 But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
• 1 John 3:1 : 1 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
• Rev 3:5 : 5 He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
• Eph 2:22 : 22 In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
• 1 Sam 1:8 : 8 Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? am not I better to thee than ten sons?
• Isa 26:1 : 1 In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.
• Isa 48:19 : 19 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.
• Isa 60:18 : 18 Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.
• Isa 62:12 : 12 And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.
• Matt 16:18 : 18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.