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I said,אָמַרְתִּי“I shall notלֹאseeאֶרְאֶהYah,יָהּYahיָהּin the landבְּאֶרֶץof the living;הַחַיִּיםI shall noלֹאlongerעוֹדlook onאַבִּיטa human beingאָדָםwithעִםthe inhabitantsיוֹשְׁבֵיof cessation.חָדֶל
Isaiah 38:11
Study it in the app“I 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.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Isaiah 38:11, word by word
- I saidאָמַרְתִּיamarti
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “amarti” appears- seeאֶרְאֶהere
see
To see with one's eyes.
Where else “ere” appears- Yahיָהּyah
Yah
Yah: the short form of the name YHWH. It is the form found in "Hallelujah" ("praise Yah").
Where else “yah” appears- in the landאֶרֶץerets
land
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “erets” appears- of the livingחַיִּיםchayim
alive
Having life, not dead.
Where else “chayim” appears- look onאַבִּיטabit
look
Look intently, gaze; regard, pay attention to.
Where else “abit” appears- a human beingאָדָםadam
human being
All humankind, men and women, as creatures God formed.
Where else “adam” appears- the inhabitantsיוֹשְׁבֵיyoshve
dwell
To make one's home in a place.
Where else “yoshve” appears- of cessationחָדֶלchadel
cessation, the dead
Cessation: the state of those who no longer live.
Where else “chadel” appears
Translation note
“The inhabitants of cessation”: those who have already ceased to exist. With one letter changed, the word means “the world.”
The context
10I 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.”
11 · This verse (above)
12My dwelling has been pulled up and removed from me like a tent of a shepherd; I have rolled up like the weaver my life; from the threads of the loom he will cut me off; from day to night you will make an end of me.