And there will beוְהָיְתָהa highwayמְסִלָּהfor the remnantלִשְׁאָרof his peopleעַמּוֹthatאֲשֶׁרremainsיִשָּׁאֵרfrom Assyria,מֵאַשּׁוּרasכַּאֲשֶׁרthere wasהָיְתָהfor Israelלְיִשְׂרָאֵלon the dayבְּיוֹםthey came upעֲלֹתוֹfrom the landמֵאֶרֶץof Egypt.מִצְרָיִם
Isaiah 11:16
Study it in the app“And there will be a highway for the remnant of his people that remains from Assyria, as there was for Israel on the day they came up from the land of Egypt.”
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Isaiah 11:16, word by word
- And there will beהָיְתָהhayta
exist
To exist: "let there be light".
Where else “hayta” appears- a highwayמְסִלָּהmesila
highway
Highway: a main road, raised and leveled.
Where else “mesila” appears- for the remnantשְׁאָרshear
rest, remainder
Rest: what is left of something.
Where else “shear” appears- of his peopleעַמּam
Ammi
Israel, YHWH's people: "my people".
Where else “am” appears- remainsיִשָּׁאֵרyishaer
remain
To remain, what is left.
Where else “yishaer” appears- from Assyriaאַשּׁוּרashur
Assyria, Asshur
See it on the mapWhere else “ashur” appears- for Israelיִשְׂרָאֵלyisrael
Israel
Israel, the new name Jacob received from God, explained as "you have striven with God" (Genesis 32:28); then the name of the people that came from him and, after the division, of the northern kingdom.
Where else “yisrael” appears- on the dayיוֹםyom
day
The day, the hours of light, or a whole day.
Where else “yom” appears- they came upעֲלֹתalot
go up
To go from a low place to a higher one: up the mountain, to Jerusalem or to a city.
Where else “alot” appears- from the landאֶרֶץerets
land
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “erets” appears- of Egyptמִצְרָיִםmitsrayim
Egypt, Mizraim
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Places in this verse
1Assyria
Today: northern Iraq (with parts of Syria, Turkey, Iran)
An empire of northern Mesopotamia along the Tigris River, in present-day Iraq.
Assyria took the northern kingdom of Israel captive (2 Kgs 17:6). God sent Jonah to preach in Nineveh, its capital (Jonah 3:3).
2Egypt
Today: Egypt (Nile Valley)
A country in northeast Africa along the Nile River, southwest of Israel.
Joseph was sold into it, and his family went down to live there (Gen 37:28; 46:6). God brought Israel out of it with a mighty hand (Exod 12:41). The child Jesus fled there with his parents (Matt 2:14).
The context
15And YHWH will devote to destruction the tongue of the sea of Egypt, and he will wave his hand over the River with the heat of his wind, and strike it into seven streams, and make people cross in sandals.
16 · This verse (above)