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“I,אָנֹכִיIאָנֹכִיam the same,הוּאhe who comforts you.מְנַחֶמְכֶםWhoמִיare you,אַתְּthat you fearוַתִּירְאִיa mortalמֵאֱנוֹשׁwho will die,יָמוּתand the sonוּמִבֶּןof manאָדָםwho is madeיִנָּתֵןas grass?חָצִיר
Isaiah 51:12
Study it in the app““I, I am the same, he who comforts you. Who are you, that you fear a mortal who will die, and the son of man who is made as grass?”
With the Hebrew beneath
Isaiah 51:12, word by word
- he who comforts youמְנַחֶמְmenachem
comfort
To ease someone in his pain with words and company.
Where else “menachem” appears- that you fearתִּירְאִיtiri
fear
To feel fear before danger or before someone stronger.
Where else “tiri” appears- a mortalאֱנוֹשׁenosh
man, mortal
Man, mortal: the human being seen in his weakness; also people in general.
Where else “enosh” appears- who will dieיָמוּתyamut
die
To cease living; also, one who has ceased living.
Where else “yamut” appears- and the sonבֶּןben
human being
Literally "son of Adam": any person, a mortal.
Where else “ben” appears- of manאָדָםadam
human being
All humankind, men and women, as creatures God formed.
Where else “adam” appears- who is madeיִנָּתֵןyinaten
make
To make someone something: "I have made you a father".
Where else “yinaten” appears- as grassחָצִירchatsir
grass
Grass that soon withers.
Where else “chatsir” appears
The context
11And the ransomed of YHWH will return, and come to Zion with joyful shouting, and eternal gladness will be on their head; joy and gladness they will obtain; sorrow and sighing will flee.
12 · This verse (above)
13And you have forgotten YHWH your Maker, who stretches out the heavens and founds the earth, and you dread continually, all the day, before the fury of the oppressor, when he sets himself to destroy? And where is the fury of the oppressor?