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“Forכִּיas the heavensשָׁמַיִםare higherגָבְהוּthan the earth,מֵאָרֶץsoכֵּןare higherגָּבְהוּmy waysדְרָכַיthan your ways,מִדַּרְכֵיכֶםand my thoughtsוּמַחְשְׁבֹתַיthan your thoughts.מִמַּחְשְׁבֹתֵיכֶם
Isaiah 55:9
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With the Hebrew beneath
Isaiah 55:9, word by word
- as the heavensשָׁמַיִםshamayim
sky
The high space seen above the earth, where the birds, clouds, sun and stars are.
Where else “shamayim” appears- are higherגָבְהוּgavhu
be high
To be or rise very high, above everything else.
Where else “gavhu” appears- than the earthאָרֶץarets
earth
The whole world, everything under the sky.
Where else “arets” appears- my waysדְרָכַderacha
manner
The way one lives and acts.
Where else “deracha” appears- and my thoughtsמַחְשְׁבֹתַmachshvota
thought
What one has in mind and intends.
Where else “machshvota” appears
The context
8“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways,” declares YHWH.
9 · This verse (above)
10For as the rain and the snow come down from the heavens and do not return there, but water the earth and make it give birth and sprout, and give seed to the sower and bread to the eater,