Isaiah 48:19

KJV1611 – Modern English

Your descendants also would have been like the sand, and the offspring of your body like its gravel; his name would not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיְהִ֤י כַחוֹל֙ זַרְעֶ֔ךָ וְצֶאֱצָאֵ֥י מֵעֶ֖יךָ כִּמְעֹתָ֑יו לֹֽא־יִכָּרֵ֧ת וְֽלֹא־יִשָּׁמֵ֛ד שְׁמ֖וֹ מִלְּפָנָֽי׃

Transliteration

And wayehî like ḥôl zarʿekā and ṣeʾĕṣāʾê mēʿêkā like meʿōtāyw not yikkārēt and not yishshāmēd shemô from before me

Grammar Details

• *wayehî*: qal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular + waw consecutive - and it would have been
• *ḥôl*: masculine singular - sand
• *zarʿekā*: masculine singular + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your seed/offspring
• *ṣeʾĕṣāʾê*: masculine plural construct - descendants of
• *mēʿêkā*: masculine plural + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your bowels/inward parts
• *meʿōtāyw*: masculine plural + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - its grains
• *yikkārēt*: niphal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - it would be cut off
• *yishshāmēd*: niphal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - it would be destroyed
• *shemô*: masculine singular + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his/its name

Word Meanings

• *ḥôl*: sand/dust
• *zarʿekā*: your seed/your offspring/your descendants
• *ṣeʾĕṣāʾê*: descendants of/offspring of/progeny of
• *mēʿêkā*: your bowels/your inward parts/your body
• *meʿōtāyw*: its grains/its particles/its contents
• *yikkārēt*: would be cut off/would be removed/would cease
• *yishshāmēd*: would be destroyed/would be eliminated/would perish

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  Your descendants would have been as numerous as the sand, and your offspring like its grains; their name would never be cut off or destroyed from before Me.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  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.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the grains thereof: his name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  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.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Thy sede shalbe like as the sonde in the see, & the frute of thy body, like the grauel stones therof: Thy name shal not be roted out, nor destroyed before me.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Thy seede also had beene as the sande, and the fruite of thy body like the grauell thereof: his name should not haue bene cut off nor destroied before me.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Thy seede also had ben lyke as the sande in the sea, and the fruite of thy body lyke the grauell stones therof: His name shoulde not be rooted out, nor destroyed before me.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  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.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  your seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of your loins like the grains of it: his name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  And as sand is thy seed, And the offspring of thy bowels as its gravel, Not cut off nor destroyed his name before Me.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the grains thereof: his name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the grains thereof: his name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  Your seed would have been like the sand, and your offspring like the dust: your name would not be cut off or come to an end before me.

• World English Bible (2000)

  your seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of your body like its grains: his name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Your descendants would have been as numerous as sand, and your children like its granules. Their name would not have been cut off and eliminated from my presence.

Referenced Verses

• Isa 10:22 : 22 For though your people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: a destruction is decreed, overflowing with righteousness.
• Gen 22:17 : 17 That in blessing I will bless you, and in multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is upon the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies;
• Jer 33:22 : 22 As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the descendants of David my servant, and the Levites that minister to me.
• Hos 1:10 : 10 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass that in the place where it was said to them, You are not My people, there it shall be said to them, You are the sons of the living God.
• Zeph 1:4 : 4 I will also stretch out My hand upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, and the names of the idolatrous priests along with the priests;
• Rom 9:27 : 27 Isaiah also cries concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
• Gen 13:16 : 16 And I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then your descendants also shall be numbered.
• Josh 7:9 : 9 For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and surround us, and cut off our name from the earth: and what will you do for your great name?
• Ruth 4:10 : 10 Moreover, Ruth the Moabitess, the widow of Mahlon, I have acquired as my wife to raise up the name of the deceased on his inheritance, so that his name will not be cut off from his brethren or from the gate of his place. You are witnesses this day.'
• 1 Kgs 9:7 : 7 Then I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for My name, I will cast out of My sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:
• Ps 9:5 : 5 You have rebuked the nations, you have destroyed the wicked; you have blotted out their name forever and ever.
• Ps 109:13 : 13 Let his posterity be cut off; in the following generation let their name be blotted out.
• Isa 9:14 : 14 Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.
• Isa 14:22 : 22 For I will rise up against them, says the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, says the LORD.
• Isa 48:9 : 9 For my name's sake I will defer my anger, and for my praise I will restrain it for you, that I do not cut you off.
• Isa 56:5 : 5 Even unto them will I give in my 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.
• Isa 66:22 : 22 For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, says the LORD, so shall your descendants and your name remain.