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Because I knewמִדַּעְתִּיthatכִּיyou areאָתָּהhard,קָשֶׁהand your neckעָרְפֶּךָis a sinewוְגִידof iron,בַּרְזֶלand your foreheadוּמִצְחֲךָbronze,נְחוּשָׁה
Isaiah 48:4
Study it in the app“Because I knew that you are hard, and your neck is a sinew of iron, and your forehead bronze,”
With the Hebrew beneath
Isaiah 48:4, word by word
- Because I knewדַּעְתִּdati
knowledge
What one has learned; or a close bond with God.
Where else “dati” appears- hardקָשֶׁהkashe
stubborn
Unyielding: "stiff-necked people".
Where else “kashe” appears- and your neckעָרְפֶּarpe
stubbornness
Unbending: "hard-necked".
Where else “arpe” appears- is a sinewגִידgid
sinew
Sinew, tendon.
Where else “gid” appears- of ironבַּרְזֶלbarzel
iron
Iron; an iron tool.
Where else “barzel” appears- and your foreheadמִצְחֲmitsach
forehead
Forehead.
Where else “mitsach” appears- bronzeנְחוּשָׁהnechusha
bronze, copper
Bronze or copper.
Where else “nechusha” appears
The context
3“The former things long ago I declared; and from my mouth they went out, and I made them heard; suddenly I did them, and they came about.
4 · This verse (above)
5I declared it to you long ago; before it came I made you hear it, lest you should say, ‘My idol did them, and my carved image and my cast image commanded them.’