Study it in the app“For the fortified city is solitary, an abode sent away and forsaken like the wilderness; there the calf will graze, and there it will lie down and consume its branches.”
Forכִּיthe fortifiedבְּצוּרָהcity isעִירsolitary,בָּדָדan abodeנָוֶהsent awayמְשֻׁלָּחand forsakenוְנֶעֱזָבlike the wilderness;כַּמִּדְבָּרthereשָׁםthe calfעֵגֶלwill graze,יִרְעֶהand thereוְשָׁםit will lie downיִרְבָּץand consumeוְכִלָּהits branches.סְעִפֶיהָ
fortify
To surround a city with walls.
Where else “betsura” appearscity
A settled place protected by a wall, with a gate and houses.
Where else “ir” appearsalone, apart
Apart, alone: separated from the others.
Where else “badad” appearsabode
A place to live.
Where else “nave” appearssend
To send someone or something.
Where else “meshulach” appearsforsake
To turn one's back on YHWH, someone or a place.
Where else “neezav” appearswilderness
Dry, unfarmed land where flocks graze.
Where else “midbar” appearscalf
Calf: a young bull.
Where else “egel” appearsgraze
To tend a flock, or eat grass.
Where else “yire” appearslie down, crouch
Lie down, crouch, like an animal at rest or lying in wait.
Where else “yirbats” appearsdestroy
To put an end to something, destroy it.
Where else “chila” appearsbranch
The high branches of a tree, where the last fruit is left.
Where else “seife” appears9Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be expiated, and this is all the fruit of removing his sin: when he makes all the stones of the altar like stones of chalk crushed to pieces, Asherahs and incense altars will not rise.
10 · This verse (above)
11When its boughs dry up, they will be broken; women will come and set it on fire. For it is not a people of understanding; therefore its Maker will not have compassion on it, and the one who formed it will not show it favor.
