Isaiah 7:23

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהָיָה֙ בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֔וּא יִֽהְיֶ֣ה כָל־מָק֗וֹם אֲשֶׁ֧ר יִֽהְיֶה־שָּׁ֛ם אֶ֥לֶף גֶּ֖פֶן בְּאֶ֣לֶף כָּ֑סֶף לַשָּׁמִ֥יר וְלַשַּׁ֖יִת יִֽהְיֶֽה׃

Transliteration

wə-hāyāh in-the-day the-that, yihyeh every-māqôm which yihyeh-there thousand gep̄en for-thousand kāsep̄, for-the-šāmîr and-for-the-šayiṯ yihyeh.

Grammar Details

*wə-hāyāh*: perfect with waw consecutive, 3rd person masculine singular - and it will be
*yihyeh*: imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - it will be
*māqôm*: noun, masculine singular - place
*gep̄en*: noun, common feminine singular - vine
*kāsep̄*: noun, masculine singular - silver/money
*šāmîr*: noun, masculine singular - thorn/brier
*šayiṯ*: noun, masculine singular - thorn/brier

Word Meanings

*wə-hāyāh*: and it will be/and it shall come to pass
*yihyeh*: it will be/it shall become
*māqôm*: place/location/spot
*gep̄en*: vine/grapevine
*kāsep̄*: silver/money/shekel
*šāmîr*: thorn/brier/bramble
*šayiṯ*: thorn/brier/bramble

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Referenced Verses

Isa 5:6 : 6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
Isa 32:12-14 : 12 They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. 13 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city: 14 Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
Jer 4:26 : 26 I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger.
Matt 21:33 : 33 Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:
Heb 6:8 : 8 But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.
Song 8:11-12 : 11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver. 12 My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.

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