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Whoמִיhas plannedיָעַץthisזֹאתagainst Tyre,עַל צֹרthe one who crowned,הַמַּעֲטִירָהwhoseאֲשֶׁרmerchantsסֹחֲרֶיהwereprinces,שָׂרִיםwhose tradersכִּנְעָנֶיהָwerethe honoredנִכְבַּדֵּיof the earth?אָרֶץ
Isaiah 23:8
Study it in the app“Who has planned this against Tyre, the one who crowned, whose merchants were princes, whose traders were the honored of the earth?”
With the Hebrew beneath
Isaiah 23:8, word by word
- has plannedיָעַץyaats
plan
To form a plan in the mind and resolve to carry it out.
Where else “yaats” appears- against Tyreצֹרtsor
Tyre
See it on the mapWhere else “tsor” appears- the one who crownedמַּעֲטִירָהmaatira
crown
To set a crown on someone to honor him, or to surround him with good things like a crown.
Where else “maatira” appears- merchantsסֹחֲרֶיsochare
trade
To travel about selling; the seller.
Where else “sochare” appears- princesשָׂרִיםsarim
nobleman
Someone of high rank by family or office: a noble, a great lord.
Where else “sarim” appears- whose tradersכִּנְעָנֶיkinane
Canaan
See it on the mapWhere else “kinane” appears- the honoredנִכְבַּדֵּיnichbade
honor
Literally "give weight": to hold someone in high regard.
Where else “nichbade” appears- of the earthאָרֶץarets
earth
The whole world, everything under the sky.
Where else “arets” appears
Translation note
“Traders” is in Hebrew “Canaanites”: the name of the people was used for merchants.
Places in this verse
1Tyre
Today: Tyre (Sour), Lebanon
A port city on the Mediterranean coast, in present-day Lebanon, about 25 miles (40 km) north of Israel's present border.
Its king Hiram helped David and Solomon with timber and workers (1 Kgs 5:1). Ezekiel announced its fall (Ezek 27:2), and Jesus mentioned it when rebuking towns that did not change their minds (Matt 11:21).
2Canaan
Today: Israel, West Bank, Gaza, Lebanon, western Syria
The land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, today Israel, Palestine and parts of Lebanon.
God promised this land to Abraham and his descendants (Gen 17:8). Israel entered it after forty years in the wilderness (Josh 5:12).
The context
7Is this your exultant city, whose origin is from the days of old? Its feet carried it far away to reside as an alien.
8 · This verse (above)
9YHWH Tsevaot has planned it, to profane the pride of all ornament, to bring into contempt all the honored of the earth.