Isaiah 6:12

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְרִחַ֥ק יְהוָ֖ה אֶת־הָאָדָ֑ם וְרַבָּ֥ה הָעֲזוּבָ֖ה בְּקֶ֥רֶב הָאָֽרֶץ׃

Transliteration

Wəriḥaq YHWH ʾet-the ʾādām wərabbāh the ʿăzûbāh in qereb the ʾārets.

Grammar Details

*Wəriḥaq*: waw conjunction + piel perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - and has removed far away
*YHWH*: divine name - LORD
*ʾet*: direct object marker
*ʾādām*: noun, masculine singular with definite article - the man/mankind
*wərabbāh*: waw conjunction + qal perfect, 3rd person feminine singular - and is great/many
*ʿăzûbāh*: noun, feminine singular with definite article - the forsaken place/abandonment
*qereb*: noun, masculine singular construct - midst of
*ʾārets*: noun, feminine singular with definite article - the land/earth

Word Meanings

*rāḥaq*: remove far/distance/send far away
*ʾādām*: man/mankind/people
*rābāh*: become great/increase/multiply
*ʿăzûbāh*: forsaken place/abandonment/desolation
*qereb*: midst/among/within/interior
*ʾārets*: land/earth/territory/ground

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Referenced Verses

Jer 4:29 : 29 The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city shall be forsaken, and not a man dwell therein.
Jer 12:7 : 7 I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.
Jer 15:4 : 4 And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.
Jer 52:28-30 : 28 This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty: 29 In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons: 30 In the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty and five persons: all the persons were four thousand and six hundred.
Lam 5:20 : 20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
Rom 11:1-2 : 1 I say then , Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew . Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying,
Rom 11:15 : 15 For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
Deut 28:64 : 64 And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.
2 Kgs 25:11 : 11 Now the rest of the people that were left in the city, and the fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon, with the remnant of the multitude, did Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carry away.
2 Kgs 25:21 : 21 And the king of Babylon smote them, and slew them at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away out of their land.
Isa 26:15 : 15 Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth.

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