Isaiah 50:4

“Adonai YHWH has given me a tongue of disciples, to know how to sustain the weary with a word; he wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to hear like disciples.”

Isaiah 50:4 · direct translation from the Hebrew
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Isaiah 50:4, word by word

Adonaiאֲדֹנָadona

Adonai, Lord

"Adonai": "my Lord", said only to God. It is a title of respect that acknowledges his authority. It is not another god besides YHWH: often it goes with his name, "Adonai YHWH", Lord YHWH.

Where else “adona” appears
YHWHיְהֹוִהyehovi

YHWH (with Adonai)

The four letters of God's name, YHWH (see "YHWH"). They almost always go with "Adonai"; then Jews, when reading, said "Elohim" so as not to repeat "Adonai".

Where else “yehovi” appears
has given meנָתַןnatan

give

To hand something over to someone: a gift, a payment, a charge or a land.

Where else “natan” appears
a tongueלְשׁוֹןleshon

tongue

The organ in the mouth used to taste and speak; hence, what one says.

Where else “leshon” appears
of disciplesלִמּוּדִיםlimudim

disciple

One who has been taught.

Where else “limudim” appears
to knowדַעַתdaat

know

To know something, realize.

Where else “daat” appears
how to sustainעוּתut

sustain, help

To sustain, to help quickly.

Where else “ut” appears
the wearyיָעֵףyaef

weary, faint

Exhausted, without strength from weariness or thirst.

Where else “yaef” appears
with a wordדָּבָרdavar

word

What someone says or announces, above all what YHWH says.

Where else “davar” appears
he wakensיָעִירyair

awake

To rouse from sleep or inactivity; in prayer, to ask God to act.

Where else “yair” appears
morning by morningבֹּקֶרboker

morning

Morning, dawn.

Where else “boker” appears
my earאֹזֶןozen

hearing

The ear that listens: "incline your ear".

Where else “ozen” appears
to hearשְׁמֹעַshemoa

hear

To hear a sound, or learn of something.

Where else “shemoa” appears

The context

3I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.”

4 · This verse (above)

5Adonai YHWH has opened my ear, and I did not rebel; I did not turn back.

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