Isaiah 8:1

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר יְהוָה֙ אֵלַ֔י קַח־לְךָ֖ גִּלָּי֣וֹן גָּד֑וֹל וּכְתֹ֤ב עָלָיו֙ בְּחֶ֣רֶט אֱנ֔וֹשׁ לְמַהֵ֥ר שָׁלָ֖ל חָ֥שׁ בַּֽז׃

Transliteration

wə-yōʾmer YHWH to-me qaḥ-ləkā gillāyôn gādôl and-kətōb on-it with-ḥereṭ ʾĕnôš to-mahēr šālāl ḥāš baz

Grammar Details

• *wə-yōʾmer*: waw consecutive + qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - and said/spoke
• *YHWH*: proper noun, divine name - Yahweh/LORD
• *qaḥ-ləkā*: qal imperative masculine singular + preposition with 2nd masculine singular suffix - take for yourself
• *gillāyôn*: noun masculine singular - tablet/scroll/writing surface
• *gādôl*: adjective masculine singular - large/great
• *kətōb*: qal imperative masculine singular - write
• *ḥereṭ*: noun masculine singular construct - stylus/engraving tool
• *ʾĕnôš*: noun masculine singular - man/common person
• *mahēr šālāl ḥāš baz*: phrase meaning 'quick to plunder, swift to spoil' - symbolic name

Word Meanings

• *gillāyôn*: tablet/large scroll/writing surface
• *ḥereṭ ʾĕnôš*: stylus of man/common writing tool/ordinary pen
• *mahēr šālāl ḥāš baz*: quick to the spoil, swift to the prey/hasten to plunder, hurry to loot/speed to the spoil, haste to the prey

Referenced Verses

• Isa 30:8 : 8 Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:
• Jer 36:2 : 2 Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day.
• Jer 36:28 : 28 Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah hath burned.
• Jer 36:32 : 32 Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah; who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire: and there were added besides unto them many like words.
• Hab 2:2-3 : 2 And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. 3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
• Rev 13:18 : 18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
• Rev 21:17 : 17 And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.
• Job 19:23-24 : 23 Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! 24 That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
• Isa 8:3 : 3 And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name Mahershalalhashbaz.