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Isaiah 44:9

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Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared [it]? ye [are] even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, [there is] no God; I know not [any].	They that make a graven image [are] all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they [are] their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.	Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image [that] is profitable for nothing?

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

They that make^H3335 a graven image^H6459 are all of them vanity^H8414; and their delectable things^H2530 shall not profit^H3276; and they are their own witnesses^H5707; they see^H7200 not, nor know^H3045; that they may be ashamed^H954.

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Original Hebrew

יֹצְרֵי־פֶסֶל כֻּלָּם תֹּהוּ וַחֲמוּדֵיהֶם בַּל־יֹועִילוּ וְעֵדֵיהֶם הֵמָּה בַּל־יִרְאוּ וּבַל־יֵדְעוּ לְמַעַן יֵבֹשׁוּ׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
יֹֽצְרֵי	yo.tze.rei-	H3335	HVqrmpc	(those who) form
פֶ֤סֶל	Fe.sel	H6459	HNcmsa	(of) an idol
כֻּלָּ/ם֙	ku.La/m	H3605	HNcmsc/Sp3mp	all of/ them
תֹּ֔הוּ	To.hu	H8414	HNcmsa	(are) nothingness
וַ/חֲמוּדֵי/הֶ֖ם	va./cha.mu.dei./Hem	H2530	HC/Vqsmpc/Sp3mp	and/ desired (things)/ their
בַּל	bal-	H1077	HTn	not
יוֹעִ֑ילוּ	yo.'I.lu	H3276	HVhi3mp	they confer profit
וְ/עֵדֵי/הֶ֣ם	ve./'e.dei./Hem	H5707	HC/Ncmpc/Sp3mp	and/ witnesses/ their
הֵׄ֗מָּׄהׄ	He.mah	H1992	HPp3mp	they
בַּל	bal-	H1077	HTn	not
יִרְא֛וּ	yir.'U	H7200	HVqi3mp	they see
וּ/בַל	u./val-	H1077	HC/Tn	and/ not
יֵדְע֖וּ	ye.de.'U	H3045	HVqi3mp	they know
לְמַ֥עַן	le.Ma.'an	H4616	HR	so that
יֵבֹֽשׁוּ	ye.Vo.shu	H954	HVqi3mp	they may be ashamed

Source: Westminster Leningrad Codex (MorphHB), TAHOT (Tyndale House)

Strong's References

• H954 — בּוּשׁ (bûwsh, boosh): a primitive root; properly, to pale, i.e. by implication to be ashamed; also (by implication) to be disappointed or delayed; (be, make, bring to, cause, put to, with, a-) shamed(-d), be (put to) confounded(-fusion), become dry, delay, be long.
• H2530 — חָמַד (châmad, khaw-mad'): a primitive root; to delight in; beauty, greatly beloved, covet, delectable thing, ([idiom] great) delight, desire, goodly, lust, (be) pleasant (thing), precious (thing).
• H3045 — יָדַע (yâdaʻ, yaw-dah'): a primitive root; to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively, instruction, designation, punishment, etc.); acknowledge, acquaintance(-ted with), advise, answer, appoint, assuredly, be aware, (un-) awares, can(-not), certainly, comprehend, consider, [idiom] could they, cunning, declare, be diligent, (can, cause to) discern, discover, endued with, familiar friend, famous, feel, can have, be (ig-) norant, instruct, kinsfolk, kinsman, (cause to let, make) know, (come to give, have, take) knowledge, have (knowledge), (be, make, make to be, make self) known, [phrase] be learned, [phrase] lie by man, mark, perceive, privy to, [idiom] prognosticator, regard, have respect, skilful, shew, can (man of) skill, be sure, of a surety, teach, (can) tell, understand, have (understanding), [idiom] will be, wist, wit, wot.
• H3276 — יַעַל (yaʻal, yaw-al'): a primitive root; properly, to ascend; figuratively, to be valuable (objectively; useful, subjectively; benefited); [idiom] at all, set forward, can do good, (be, have) profit, (able).
• H3335 — יָצַר (yâtsar, yaw-tsar'): probably identical with יָצַר (through the squeezing into shape); (compare יַצַע); to mould into a form; especially as apotter; figuratively, to determine (i.e. form a resolution); [idiom] earthen, fashion, form, frame, make(-r), potter, purpose.
• H5707 — עֵד (ʻêd, ayd): contracted from עוּד; concretely, a witness; abstractly, testimony; specifically, a recorder, i.e. prince; witness.
• H6459 — פֶּסֶל (peçel, peh'-sel): lemma פֶסֶל missing dagesh, corrected to פֶּסֶל; from פָּסַל; an idol; carved (graven) image.
• H7200 — רָאָה (râʼâh, raw-aw'): a primitive root; to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative); advise self, appear, approve, behold, [idiom] certainly, consider, discern, (make to) enjoy, have experience, gaze, take heed, [idiom] indeed, [idiom] joyfully, lo, look (on, one another, one on another, one upon another, out, up, upon), mark, meet, [idiom] be near, perceive, present, provide, regard, (have) respect, (fore-, cause to, let) see(-r, -m, one another), shew (self), [idiom] sight of others, (e-) spy, stare, [idiom] surely, [idiom] think, view, visions.
• H8414 — תֹּהוּ (tôhûw, to'-hoo): from an unused root meaning to lie waste; a desolation (of surface), i.e. desert; figuratively, a worthless thing; adverbially, in vain; confusion, empty place, without form, nothing, (thing of) nought, vain, vanity, waste, wilderness.

The following Strong's numbers are referenced in the Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) text but were not explicitly tagged in the KJV source:

• H1077 — בַּל (bal, bal): from בָּלָה; properly, a failure; by implication nothing; usually (adverb) not at all; also lest; lest, neither, no, none (that...), not (any), nothing.
• H1992 — הֵם (hêm, haym): or (prolonged) הֵמָּה; masculine plural from הֲלַךְ; they (only used when emphatic); it, like, [idiom] (how, so) many (soever, more as) they (be), (the) same, [idiom] so, [idiom] such, their, them, these, they, those, which, who, whom, withal, ye.
• H3605 — כֹּל (kôl, kole): or (Jeremiah 33:8) כּוֹל; from כָּלַל; properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense); (in) all (manner, (ye)), altogether, any (manner), enough, every (one, place, thing), howsoever, as many as, (no-) thing, ought, whatsoever, (the) whole, whoso(-ever).
• H4616 — מַעַן (maʻan, mah'-an): from עָנָה; properly, heed, i.e. purpose; used only adverbially, on account of (as a motive or an aim), teleologically, in order that; because of, to the end (intent) that, for (to,... 's sake), [phrase] lest, that, to.

Cross References

Verse Cross-References (Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, Enhanced)

• and their — Judges 10:14, 1 Kings 18:26-40, Isaiah 2:20-21, Isaiah 37:18-20, Isaiah 46:1-2, Isaiah 46:6-7, Jeremiah 2:11, Jeremiah 2:27-28, Jeremiah 14:22, Jeremiah 16:19-20, Daniel 5:23, Hosea 8:4-6, Habakkuk 2:18-20, 1 Corinthians 8:4
• delectable — Daniel 11:38
• make — Deuteronomy 27:15, Psalms 97:7, Isaiah 41:24, Isaiah 41:29, Jeremiah 10:3-8, Jeremiah 10:14-15
• their own — Psalms 115:8, Psalms 135:18, Isaiah 42:18, Isaiah 43:8, Isaiah 44:18, Isaiah 44:20, Isaiah 45:20, Romans 1:22, 2 Corinthians 4:4, Ephesians 4:18, Ephesians 5:8

Reciprocal references (32): Genesis 2:25, Exodus 20:4, Exodus 32:4, Leviticus 26:1, Deuteronomy 4:28, Judges 17:3, 1 Samuel 12:21, 1 Kings 14:9, 1 Kings 16:7, 1 Kings 20:6, 2 Kings 17:16, 2 Kings 17:29, 2 Kings 19:18, 1 Chronicles 16:26, 2 Chronicles 25:15, Psalms 135:15, Isaiah 37:19, Isaiah 45:16, Jeremiah 2:5, Jeremiah 2:13, Jeremiah 3:23, Jeremiah 10:5, Hosea 5:5, Hosea 8:6, Hosea 10:6, Zechariah 10:2, Acts 7:41, Acts 14:15, Acts 17:29, Romans 1:21, Galatians 4:8, Revelation 9:20

Related Topics

• Thompson Chain: PROFIT AND LOSS
• Torrey’s: VANITY
• Nave’s: CARVING, IDOL, IDOLATRY, VANITY

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