Isaiah 18:3

“All the inhabitants of the world and dwellers on the earth, when a banner is raised on the mountains, look! And when the horn is blown, listen!”

Isaiah 18:3 · direct translation from the Hebrew
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Isaiah 18:3, word by word

the inhabitantsיֹשְׁבֵיyoshve

dwell

To make one's home in a place.

Where else “yoshve” appears
of the worldתֵבֵלtevel

world

The world: the inhabited earth.

Where else “tevel” appears
and dwellersשֹׁכְנֵיshochne

dwell

To live somewhere, stay.

Where else “shochne” appears
on the earthאָרֶץarets

earth

The whole world, everything under the sky.

Where else “arets” appears
when a bannerנֵסnes

banner

A signal raised on a staff, for all to gather.

Where else “nes” appears
is raisedנְשֹׂאneso

lift up

To direct the eyes upward, make the voice loud, or put up the hand.

Where else “neso” appears
on the mountainsהָרִיםharim

mountain

A great rise of land, like Sinai or Zion.

Where else “harim” appears
lookתִּרְאוּtiru

see

To see with one's eyes.

Where else “tiru” appears
And when the hornשׁוֹפָרshofar

horn (shofar)

Shofar: a ram's horn blown like a trumpet.

Where else “shofar” appears
is blownתְקֹעַtekoa

blow

To blow the trumpet.

Where else “tekoa” appears
listenתִּשְׁמָעוּtishmau

listen

To pay close attention, or heed a plea.

Where else “tishmau” appears

The context

2which sends envoys by the sea, and in vessels of papyrus on the surface of the waters! Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth-skinned, to a people feared from that time and onward, a nation of strength, strength, and of trampling, whose land the rivers divide.

3 · This verse (above)

4For thus YHWH said to me: “I will be still and look from my dwelling place, like dazzling heat over the light, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”

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