Isaiah 38:10

“I said, “In the quiet of my days I shall go to the gates of Sheol; I have been deprived of the rest of my years.””

Isaiah 38:10 · direct translation from the Hebrew
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Isaiah 38:10, word by word

saidאָמַרְתִּיamarti

say

To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.

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“In the quietדְמִיdemi

rest, silence

Silence, stillness, rest.

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of my daysיָמַyama

time

Literally "the days": a period, an age, or the span of someone's life.

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I shall goאֵלֵכָהelecha

go

To head for a place, to leave where one is in order to reach another.

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to the gatesשַׁעֲרֵיshaare

gate

The entrance of a city or house, with doors that close.

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of Sheolשְׁאוֹלsheol

Sheol

Sheol: in the Old Testament, the place of the dead, the grave, where all go down at death.

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I have been deprivedפֻּקַּדְתִּיpukadti

be missing

To find something gone.

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of the restיֶתֶרyeter

rest

What remains after what has been said or done, like a king's other deeds.

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of my yearsשְׁנוֹתָshenota

year

Each full turn of the seasons, by which time is counted.

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The context

9A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick and had lived from his sickness:

10 · This verse (above)

11I said, “I shall not see Yah, Yah in the land of the living; I shall no longer look on a human being with the inhabitants of cessation.

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