Iאֲנִיsaid,אָמַרְתִּי“In the quietבִּדְמִיof my daysיָמַיI shall goאֵלֵכָהto the gatesבְּשַׁעֲרֵיof Sheol;שְׁאוֹלI have been deprivedפֻּקַּדְתִּיof the restיֶתֶרof my years.”שְׁנוֹתָי
Isaiah 38:10
Study it in the app“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.””
With the Hebrew beneath
Isaiah 38:10, word by word
- saidאָמַרְתִּיamarti
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “amarti” appears- “In the quietדְמִיdemi
rest, silence
Silence, stillness, rest.
Where else “demi” appears- of my daysיָמַyama
time
Literally "the days": a period, an age, or the span of someone's life.
Where else “yama” appears- I shall goאֵלֵכָהelecha
go
To head for a place, to leave where one is in order to reach another.
Where else “elecha” appears- to the gatesשַׁעֲרֵיshaare
gate
The entrance of a city or house, with doors that close.
Where else “shaare” appears- of Sheolשְׁאוֹלsheol
Sheol
Sheol: in the Old Testament, the place of the dead, the grave, where all go down at death.
Where else “sheol” appears- I have been deprivedפֻּקַּדְתִּיpukadti
be missing
To find something gone.
Where else “pukadti” appears- of the restיֶתֶרyeter
rest
What remains after what has been said or done, like a king's other deeds.
Where else “yeter” appears- of my yearsשְׁנוֹתָshenota
year
Each full turn of the seasons, by which time is counted.
Where else “shenota” appears
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.