Isaiah 8:16

Webster's Bible (1833)

Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

צ֖וֹר תְּעוּדָ֑ה חֲת֥וֹם תּוֹרָ֖ה בְּלִמֻּדָֽי׃

Transliteration

ṣôr təʿûdāh ḥătôm tôrāh among-limmudāy

Grammar Details

• *ṣôr*: qal imperative masculine singular - bind/tie up
• *təʿûdāh*: noun feminine singular - testimony/witness
• *ḥătôm*: qal imperative masculine singular - seal
• *tôrāh*: noun feminine singular - law/instruction
• *limmudāy*: qal passive participle masculine plural + 1st person singular suffix - my disciples/my taught ones

Word Meanings

• *ṣôr*: bind up/tie up/secure
• *təʿûdāh*: testimony/witness/evidence
• *ḥătôm*: seal/secure/affix seal to
• *tôrāh*: law/instruction/teaching
• *limmudāy*: my disciples/my taught ones/my students

Referenced Verses

• Dan 12:4 : 4 But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run back and forth, and knowledge shall be increased."
• Dan 12:9-9 : 9 He said, Go your way, Daniel; for the words are shut up and sealed until the time of the end. 10 Many shall purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand; but those who are wise shall understand.
• Matt 13:11 : 11 He answered them, "To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.
• Mark 4:10-11 : 10 When he was alone, those who were around him with the twelve asked him about the parables. 11 He said to them, "To you is given the mystery of the Kingdom of God, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,
• Mark 4:34 : 34 Without a parable he didn't speak to them; but privately to his own disciples he explained all things.
• Mark 10:10 : 10 In the house, his disciples asked him again about the same matter.
• John 3:32-33 : 32 What he has seen and heard, of that he testifies; and no one receives his witness. 33 He who has received his witness has set his seal to this, that God is true.
• 1 Cor 2:14 : 14 Now the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
• Heb 3:5 : 5 Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken,
• 1 John 5:9-9 : 9 If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater; for this is God's testimony which he has testified concerning his Son. 10 He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who doesn't believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son. 11 The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 He who has the Son has the life. He who doesn't have God's Son doesn't have the life.
• Rev 2:17 : 17 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna,{Manna is supernatural food, named after the Hebrew for "What is it?". See Exodus 11:7-9.} and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he who receives it.
• Rev 5:1 : 1 I saw, in the right hand of him who sat on the throne, a book written inside and outside, sealed shut with seven seals.
• Rev 5:5 : 5 One of the elders said to me, "Don't weep. Behold, the Lion who is of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome; he who opens the book and its seven seals."
• Rev 10:4 : 4 When the seven thunders sounded, I was about to write; but I heard a voice from the sky saying, "Seal up the things which the seven thunders said, and don't write them."
• Rev 19:10 : 10 I fell down before his feet to worship him. He said to me, "Look! Don't do it! I am a fellow bondservant with you and with your brothers who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God, for the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy."
• Deut 4:45 : 45 these are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which Moses spoke to the children of Israel, when they came forth out of Egypt,
• 2 Kgs 11:12 : 12 Then he brought out the king's son, and put the crown on him, and [gave him] the testimony; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, [Long] live the king.
• Ps 25:14 : 14 The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.
• Prov 8:8-9 : 8 All the words of my mouth are in righteousness. There is nothing crooked or perverse in them. 9 They are all plain to him who understands, Right to those who find knowledge.
• Isa 8:1-2 : 1 Yahweh said to me, "Take a large tablet, and write on it with a man's pen, 'For Maher Shalal Hash Baz;{"Maher Shalal Hash Baz" means "quick to the plunder, swift to the spoil."}' 2 and I will take to me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
• Isa 8:20 : 20 To the law and to the testimony! if they don't speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.
• Isa 29:11-12 : 11 All vision is become to you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one who is learned, saying, Read this, I pray you; and he says, I can't, for it is sealed: 12 and the book is delivered to him who is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray you; and he says, I am not learned.
• Isa 54:13 : 13 All your children shall be taught of Yahweh; and great shall be the peace of your children.
• Dan 9:24 : 24 Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.