Isaiah 7:16

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֠י בְּטֶ֨רֶם יֵדַ֥ע הַנַּ֛עַר מָאֹ֥ס בָּרָ֖ע וּבָחֹ֣ר בַּטּ֑וֹב תֵּעָזֵ֤ב הָאֲדָמָה֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר אַתָּ֣ה קָ֔ץ מִפְּנֵ֖י שְׁנֵ֥י מְלָכֶֽיהָ׃

Transliteration

For bəṭerem yēḏaʿ the-naʿar māʾōs in-the-rāʿ and-bāḥōr in-the-good, tēʿāzēḇ the-ʾăḏāmāh which you qāṣ from-before two məlāḵeyhā.

Grammar Details

*bəṭerem*: preposition with adverb - before
*yēḏaʿ*: imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - he knows
*naʿar*: noun, masculine singular - boy/youth/lad
*māʾōs*: infinitive construct - to refuse/reject
*rāʿ*: adjective, masculine singular - evil/bad
*bāḥōr*: infinitive construct - to choose
*tēʿāzēḇ*: imperfect, 3rd person feminine singular, Niphal - it will be abandoned/forsaken
*ʾăḏāmāh*: noun, feminine singular - land/ground/soil
*qāṣ*: participle, masculine singular - dreading/loathing
*məlāḵeyhā*: noun, masculine plural construct with 3rd person feminine singular suffix - her kings

Word Meanings

*bəṭerem*: before/ere
*yēḏaʿ*: he knows/he understands
*naʿar*: boy/youth/lad/child
*māʾōs*: to refuse/to reject/to despise
*rāʿ*: evil/bad/wrong
*bāḥōr*: to choose/to select
*tēʿāzēḇ*: will be abandoned/will be forsaken/will be left
*ʾăḏāmāh*: land/ground/soil/earth
*qāṣ*: dreading/loathing/abhoring

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Referenced Verses

Isa 8:4 : 4 For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.
Deut 1:39 : 39 Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.
2 Kgs 15:29-30 : 29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abelbethmaachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria. 30 And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.
2 Kgs 16:9 : 9 And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him: for the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried the people of it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin.
Isa 9:11 : 11 Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his enemies together;
Isa 17:1-3 : 1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap. 2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid. 3 The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts.
Hos 5:9 : 9 Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.
Amos 1:3-5 : 3 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron: 4 But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of Benhadad. 5 I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith the LORD.
Jonah 4:11 : 11 And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?

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