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ThereforeלָכֵןMoabמוֹאָבwill wailיְיֵלִילfor Moab,לְמוֹאָבall of itכֻּלֹּהwill wail;יְיֵלִילfor the raisin cakesלַאֲשִׁישֵׁיof Kir-haresethקִיר חֲרֶשֶׂתyou will murmur,תֶּהְגּוּutterlyאַךְstricken.נְכָאִים
Isaiah 16:7
Study it in the app“Therefore Moab will wail for Moab, all of it will wail; for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth you will murmur, utterly stricken.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Isaiah 16:7, word by word
- Moabמוֹאָבmoav
Moab
See it on the mapWhere else “moav” appears- will wailיְיֵלִילyeyelil
howl, wail
To howl, to wail: to cry out loud in grief or alarm.
Where else “yeyelil” appears- for the raisin cakesאֲשִׁישֵׁיashishe
foundations? raisin cakes?
A word of uncertain sense: foundations, or cakes of pressed raisins.
Where else “ashishe” appears- of Kir-haresethקִירkir
Kir-hareseth
Kir-hareseth. A fortified city of Moab; the name means "wall of baked brick." It is also called Kir-heres or Kir of Moab (Isaiah 15:1; 16:7, 11).
Where else “kir” appears- you will murmurתֶּהְגּוּtehgu
moan
To make a low sound, like a dove or a lion.
Where else “tehgu” appears- strickenנְכָאִיםnechaim
stricken, broken
Stricken, struck down; a spirit broken by pain.
Where else “nechaim” appears
Places in this verse
Moab
Today: western Jordan, east of the Dead Sea
The land east of the Dead Sea, in present-day Jordan.
The Moabites came from a son of Lot (Gen 19:37). Ruth came from Moab (Ruth 1:1-4), and Moses died in its territory (Deut 34:5).
The context
6We have heard of the pride of Moab, very proud, his arrogance and his pride and his wrath; his boasts are not so.
7 · This verse (above)
8For the fields of Heshbon languish, the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have struck down its choice branches; as far as Jazer they reached, they wandered into the wilderness; its shoots spread out, they crossed over the sea.