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Whyעַל מֶהwill you be struckתֻכּוּagain,עוֹדthat you keep addingתּוֹסִיפוּrebellion?סָרָהThe wholeכָּלheadרֹאשׁis sick,לָחֳלִיand the wholeוְכָלheartלֵבָבfaint.דַּוָּי
Isaiah 1:5
Study it in the app“Why will you be struck again, that you keep adding rebellion? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Isaiah 1:5, word by word
- will you be struckתֻכּוּtuku
punish
God punishes with a plague.
Where else “tuku” appears- that you keep addingתּוֹסִיפוּtosifu
do again
To do again what had already been done.
Where else “tosifu” appears- rebellionסָרָהsara
rebellion
Moving away from God, rising up against him.
Where else “sara” appears- headרֹאשׁrosh
head
The upper part of the body, where the face and hair are.
Where else “rosh” appears- is sickחֳלִיcholi
sickness
Sickness, disease; also suffering.
Where else “choli” appears- heartלֵבָבlevav
heart
The deepest part of a person: where they think, desire and decide.
Where else “levav” appears- faintדַּוָּיdavay
faint, sick
Sick, faint; also troubled within.
Where else “davay” appears
The context
4Woe, sinful nation, people weighed down with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who act corruptly! They have abandoned YHWH, they have spurned the Holy One of Israel, they have turned away backward.
5 · This verse (above)
6From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it: wound and bruise and fresh blow; they have not been pressed out or bound up or softened with oil.