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To the instructionלְתוֹרָהand to the testimony!וְלִתְעוּדָהIfאִםthey do notלֹאspeakיֹאמְרוּaccording to thisכַּ הַזֶּהword,דָּבָרit is those for whomאֲשֶׁר לוֹthere is noאֵיןdawn.שָׁחַר
Isaiah 8:20
Study it in the app“To the instruction and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is those for whom there is no dawn.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Isaiah 8:20, word by word
- To the instructionתוֹרָהtora
teaching of YHWH
What YHWH teaches his people so they may live.
Where else “tora” appears- and to the testimonyתְעוּדָהteuda
testimony
What God declared, given to his people as proof to guide them.
Where else “teuda” appears- speakיֹאמְרוּyomru
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomru” appears- wordדָּבָרdavar
word
What someone says or announces, above all what YHWH says.
Where else “davar” appears- dawnשָׁחַרshachar
dawn
Dawn, daybreak.
Where else “shachar” appears
The context
19And when they say to you, “Consult those who call up the dead and the spiritists, who chirp and mutter,” should not a people consult its Elohim? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living?
20 · This verse (above)
21And he will pass through it, hard-pressed and hungry; and it will happen when he is hungry that he will be enraged and curse his king and his Elohim, and turn his face upward.