Isaiah 7:11

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Isaiah 7:11, word by word

“Askשְׁאַלsheal

ask for

To ask for something, or borrow.

Where else “sheal” appears

a signאוֹתot

sign

A mark or signal that points to something.

Where else “ot” appears

YHWHיְהוָהyehva

YHWH

The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.

Where else “yehva” appears

your Elohimאֱלֹהֶיelohe

Elohim

The one true God, the Creator; the word is plural but means one.

Where else “elohe” appears

make deepהַעְמֵקhamek

be deep

To be deep; figuratively, to be hard to fathom or understand. In the causative, to make deep.

Where else “hamek” appears

the requestשְׁאָלָהsheala

Sheol

Sheol: in the Old Testament, the place of the dead, the grave, where all go down at death.

Where else “sheala” appears

make it highהַגְבֵּהַּhagbeha

be high

To be or rise very high, above everything else.

Where else “hagbeha” appears

aboveמָעְלָmala

above

Upward, above; with ages, "twenty years old or more".

Where else “mala” appears

Translation note

With other vowels, the word translated “the request” (שְׁאָלָה) reads “toward Sheol”: “make [it] deep toward Sheol.”

The context