Chapter 5
Isaiah 5:20
הוי
הוֹי
woe/alas
1945
הוי
hôwy
Definition: oh!
Root: a prolonged form of H1930 (הו) (akin to H188 (אוי));
Exhaustive: a prolonged form of הו (akin to אוי); oh!; ah, alas, ho, O, woe.
hôwy
Definition: oh!
Root: a prolonged form of H1930 (הו) (akin to H188 (אוי));
Exhaustive: a prolonged form of הו (akin to אוי); oh!; ah, alas, ho, O, woe.
Particle interjection
האמרים
הָאֹמְרִים
None
559
| אמר
ʼâmar
Definition: to say (used with great latitude)
Root: a primitive root;
Exhaustive: a primitive root; to say (used with great latitude); answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, [phrase] (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, [idiom] desire, determine, [idiom] expressly, [idiom] indeed, [idiom] intend, name, [idiom] plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), [idiom] still, [idiom] suppose, talk, tell, term, [idiom] that is, [idiom] think, use (speech), utter, [idiom] verily, [idiom] yet.
ʼâmar
Definition: to say (used with great latitude)
Root: a primitive root;
Exhaustive: a primitive root; to say (used with great latitude); answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, [phrase] (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, [idiom] desire, determine, [idiom] expressly, [idiom] indeed, [idiom] intend, name, [idiom] plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), [idiom] still, [idiom] suppose, talk, tell, term, [idiom] that is, [idiom] think, use (speech), utter, [idiom] verily, [idiom] yet.
9009
ה
None
Definition: the
Root: None
Exhaustive: definite article, the, used for all numbers and genders; originally a pronoun demonstrative, this. interrogative particle in direct and indirect questions; in disjunctive questions: whether--or.
None
Definition: the
Root: None
Exhaustive: definite article, the, used for all numbers and genders; originally a pronoun demonstrative, this. interrogative particle in direct and indirect questions; in disjunctive questions: whether--or.
Particle definite article, Verb Qal participle active masculine plural absolute
לרע
לָרַע
for evil
7451b
| רע
raʻ
Definition: bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
Root: from H7489 (רעע);
Exhaustive: from רעע; bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral); adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, [phrase] displease(-ure), distress, evil((-favouredness), man, thing), [phrase] exceedingly, [idiom] great, grief(-vous), harm, heavy, hurt(-ful), ill (favoured), [phrase] mark, mischief(-vous), misery, naught(-ty), noisome, [phrase] not please, sad(-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked(-ly, -ness, one), worse(-st), wretchedness, wrong. (Incl. feminine raaah; as adjective or noun.).
raʻ
Definition: bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
Root: from H7489 (רעע);
Exhaustive: from רעע; bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral); adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, [phrase] displease(-ure), distress, evil((-favouredness), man, thing), [phrase] exceedingly, [idiom] great, grief(-vous), harm, heavy, hurt(-ful), ill (favoured), [phrase] mark, mischief(-vous), misery, naught(-ty), noisome, [phrase] not please, sad(-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked(-ly, -ness, one), worse(-st), wretchedness, wrong. (Incl. feminine raaah; as adjective or noun.).
9005
ל
None
Definition: to, for
Root: None
Exhaustive: None
None
Definition: to, for
Root: None
Exhaustive: None
Preposition -For/Into Art, Adjective adjective both singular absolute
טוב
טוֹב
he became good
2896b
טוב
ṭôwb
Definition: good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good or good thing, a good man or woman; the good, goods or good things, good men or women), also as an adverb (well)
Root: from H2895 (טוב);
Exhaustive: from טוב; good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good or good thing, a good man or woman; the good, goods or good things, good men or women), also as an adverb (well); beautiful, best, better, bountiful, cheerful, at ease, [idiom] fair (word), (be in) favour, fine, glad, good (deed, -lier, -liest, -ly, -ness, -s), graciously, joyful, kindly, kindness, liketh (best), loving, merry, [idiom] most, pleasant, [phrase] pleaseth, pleasure, precious, prosperity, ready, sweet, wealth, welfare, (be) well(-favoured).
ṭôwb
Definition: good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good or good thing, a good man or woman; the good, goods or good things, good men or women), also as an adverb (well)
Root: from H2895 (טוב);
Exhaustive: from טוב; good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good or good thing, a good man or woman; the good, goods or good things, good men or women), also as an adverb (well); beautiful, best, better, bountiful, cheerful, at ease, [idiom] fair (word), (be in) favour, fine, glad, good (deed, -lier, -liest, -ly, -ness, -s), graciously, joyful, kindly, kindness, liketh (best), loving, merry, [idiom] most, pleasant, [phrase] pleaseth, pleasure, precious, prosperity, ready, sweet, wealth, welfare, (be) well(-favoured).
Adjective adjective both singular absolute
ולטוב
וְלַטּוֹב
None
2896b
| טוב
ṭôwb
Definition: good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good or good thing, a good man or woman; the good, goods or good things, good men or women), also as an adverb (well)
Root: from H2895 (טוב);
Exhaustive: from טוב; good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good or good thing, a good man or woman; the good, goods or good things, good men or women), also as an adverb (well); beautiful, best, better, bountiful, cheerful, at ease, [idiom] fair (word), (be in) favour, fine, glad, good (deed, -lier, -liest, -ly, -ness, -s), graciously, joyful, kindly, kindness, liketh (best), loving, merry, [idiom] most, pleasant, [phrase] pleaseth, pleasure, precious, prosperity, ready, sweet, wealth, welfare, (be) well(-favoured).
ṭôwb
Definition: good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good or good thing, a good man or woman; the good, goods or good things, good men or women), also as an adverb (well)
Root: from H2895 (טוב);
Exhaustive: from טוב; good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good or good thing, a good man or woman; the good, goods or good things, good men or women), also as an adverb (well); beautiful, best, better, bountiful, cheerful, at ease, [idiom] fair (word), (be in) favour, fine, glad, good (deed, -lier, -liest, -ly, -ness, -s), graciously, joyful, kindly, kindness, liketh (best), loving, merry, [idiom] most, pleasant, [phrase] pleaseth, pleasure, precious, prosperity, ready, sweet, wealth, welfare, (be) well(-favoured).
9005
| ל
None
Definition: to, for
Root: None
Exhaustive: None
None
Definition: to, for
Root: None
Exhaustive: None
9002
ו
None
Definition: and
Root: None
Exhaustive: Conjunctive vav - i.e. followed by prefix, suffix or non-verb (conjunctive) (‘and/but’)
None
Definition: and
Root: None
Exhaustive: Conjunctive vav - i.e. followed by prefix, suffix or non-verb (conjunctive) (‘and/but’)
Conjunction, Preposition Adjective adjective both singular absolute
רע
רָע
evil one/friend
7451b
רע
raʻ
Definition: bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
Root: from H7489 (רעע);
Exhaustive: from רעע; bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral); adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, [phrase] displease(-ure), distress, evil((-favouredness), man, thing), [phrase] exceedingly, [idiom] great, grief(-vous), harm, heavy, hurt(-ful), ill (favoured), [phrase] mark, mischief(-vous), misery, naught(-ty), noisome, [phrase] not please, sad(-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked(-ly, -ness, one), worse(-st), wretchedness, wrong. (Incl. feminine raaah; as adjective or noun.).
raʻ
Definition: bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
Root: from H7489 (רעע);
Exhaustive: from רעע; bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral); adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, [phrase] displease(-ure), distress, evil((-favouredness), man, thing), [phrase] exceedingly, [idiom] great, grief(-vous), harm, heavy, hurt(-ful), ill (favoured), [phrase] mark, mischief(-vous), misery, naught(-ty), noisome, [phrase] not please, sad(-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked(-ly, -ness, one), worse(-st), wretchedness, wrong. (Incl. feminine raaah; as adjective or noun.).
Adjective adjective both singular absolute
שמים
שָׂמִים
dual heavenly ones
7760a
שום
sûwm
Definition: to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
Root: or שים; a primitive root;
Exhaustive: or שים; a primitive root; to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically); [idiom] any wise, appoint, bring, call (a name), care, cast in, change, charge, commit, consider, convey, determine, [phrase] disguise, dispose, do, get, give, heap up, hold, impute, lay (down, up), leave, look, make (out), mark, [phrase] name, [idiom] on, ordain, order, [phrase] paint, place, preserve, purpose, put (on), [phrase] regard, rehearse, reward, (cause to) set (on, up), shew, [phrase] stedfastly, take, [idiom] tell, [phrase] tread down, (over-)turn, [idiom] wholly, work.
sûwm
Definition: to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
Root: or שים; a primitive root;
Exhaustive: or שים; a primitive root; to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically); [idiom] any wise, appoint, bring, call (a name), care, cast in, change, charge, commit, consider, convey, determine, [phrase] disguise, dispose, do, get, give, heap up, hold, impute, lay (down, up), leave, look, make (out), mark, [phrase] name, [idiom] on, ordain, order, [phrase] paint, place, preserve, purpose, put (on), [phrase] regard, rehearse, reward, (cause to) set (on, up), shew, [phrase] stedfastly, take, [idiom] tell, [phrase] tread down, (over-)turn, [idiom] wholly, work.
Verb Qal participle active masculine plural absolute
חשך
חֹשֶׁךְ
a dark one
2822
חשך
chôshek
Definition: the dark; hence (literally) darkness; figuratively, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness
Root: from H2821 (חשך);
Exhaustive: from חשך; the dark; hence (literally) darkness; figuratively, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness; dark(-ness), night, obscurity.
chôshek
Definition: the dark; hence (literally) darkness; figuratively, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness
Root: from H2821 (חשך);
Exhaustive: from חשך; the dark; hence (literally) darkness; figuratively, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness; dark(-ness), night, obscurity.
Noun common both singular absolute
לאור
לְאוֹר
None
216
| אור
ʼôwr
Definition: illumination or (concrete) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.)
Root: from H215 (אור);
Exhaustive: from אור; illumination or (concrete) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.); bright, clear, [phrase] day, light (-ning), morning, sun.
ʼôwr
Definition: illumination or (concrete) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.)
Root: from H215 (אור);
Exhaustive: from אור; illumination or (concrete) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.); bright, clear, [phrase] day, light (-ning), morning, sun.
9005
ל
None
Definition: to, for
Root: None
Exhaustive: None
None
Definition: to, for
Root: None
Exhaustive: None
Preposition, Noun common both singular absolute
ואור
וְאוֹר
None
216
| אור
ʼôwr
Definition: illumination or (concrete) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.)
Root: from H215 (אור);
Exhaustive: from אור; illumination or (concrete) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.); bright, clear, [phrase] day, light (-ning), morning, sun.
ʼôwr
Definition: illumination or (concrete) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.)
Root: from H215 (אור);
Exhaustive: from אור; illumination or (concrete) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.); bright, clear, [phrase] day, light (-ning), morning, sun.
9002
ו
None
Definition: and
Root: None
Exhaustive: Conjunctive vav - i.e. followed by prefix, suffix or non-verb (conjunctive) (‘and/but’)
None
Definition: and
Root: None
Exhaustive: Conjunctive vav - i.e. followed by prefix, suffix or non-verb (conjunctive) (‘and/but’)
Conjunction, Noun common both singular absolute
לחשך
לְחֹשֶׁךְ
to Darkness
2822
| חשך
chôshek
Definition: the dark; hence (literally) darkness; figuratively, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness
Root: from H2821 (חשך);
Exhaustive: from חשך; the dark; hence (literally) darkness; figuratively, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness; dark(-ness), night, obscurity.
chôshek
Definition: the dark; hence (literally) darkness; figuratively, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness
Root: from H2821 (חשך);
Exhaustive: from חשך; the dark; hence (literally) darkness; figuratively, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness; dark(-ness), night, obscurity.
9005
ל
None
Definition: to, for
Root: None
Exhaustive: None
None
Definition: to, for
Root: None
Exhaustive: None
Preposition, Noun common both singular absolute
שמים
שָׂמִים
dual heavenly ones
7760a
שום
sûwm
Definition: to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
Root: or שים; a primitive root;
Exhaustive: or שים; a primitive root; to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically); [idiom] any wise, appoint, bring, call (a name), care, cast in, change, charge, commit, consider, convey, determine, [phrase] disguise, dispose, do, get, give, heap up, hold, impute, lay (down, up), leave, look, make (out), mark, [phrase] name, [idiom] on, ordain, order, [phrase] paint, place, preserve, purpose, put (on), [phrase] regard, rehearse, reward, (cause to) set (on, up), shew, [phrase] stedfastly, take, [idiom] tell, [phrase] tread down, (over-)turn, [idiom] wholly, work.
sûwm
Definition: to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
Root: or שים; a primitive root;
Exhaustive: or שים; a primitive root; to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically); [idiom] any wise, appoint, bring, call (a name), care, cast in, change, charge, commit, consider, convey, determine, [phrase] disguise, dispose, do, get, give, heap up, hold, impute, lay (down, up), leave, look, make (out), mark, [phrase] name, [idiom] on, ordain, order, [phrase] paint, place, preserve, purpose, put (on), [phrase] regard, rehearse, reward, (cause to) set (on, up), shew, [phrase] stedfastly, take, [idiom] tell, [phrase] tread down, (over-)turn, [idiom] wholly, work.
Verb Qal participle active masculine plural absolute
מר
מַר
myrrh/bitter
4751
מר
mar
Definition: bitter (literally or figuratively); also (as noun) bitterness, or (adverbially) bitterly
Root: or (feminine) מרה; from H4843 (מרר);
Exhaustive: or (feminine) מרה; from מרר; bitter (literally or figuratively); also (as noun) bitterness, or (adverbially) bitterly; [phrase] angry, bitter(-ly, -ness), chafed, discontented, [idiom] great, heavy.
mar
Definition: bitter (literally or figuratively); also (as noun) bitterness, or (adverbially) bitterly
Root: or (feminine) מרה; from H4843 (מרר);
Exhaustive: or (feminine) מרה; from מרר; bitter (literally or figuratively); also (as noun) bitterness, or (adverbially) bitterly; [phrase] angry, bitter(-ly, -ness), chafed, discontented, [idiom] great, heavy.
Adjective adjective both singular absolute
למתוק
לְמָתוֹק
None
4966
| מתוק
mâthôwq
Definition: sweet
Root: or מתוק; from H4985 (מתק);
Exhaustive: or מתוק; from מתק; sweet; sweet(-er, -ness).
mâthôwq
Definition: sweet
Root: or מתוק; from H4985 (מתק);
Exhaustive: or מתוק; from מתק; sweet; sweet(-er, -ness).
9005
ל
None
Definition: to, for
Root: None
Exhaustive: None
None
Definition: to, for
Root: None
Exhaustive: None
Preposition, Adjective adjective both singular absolute
ומתוק
וּמָתוֹק
None
4966
| מתוק
mâthôwq
Definition: sweet
Root: or מתוק; from H4985 (מתק);
Exhaustive: or מתוק; from מתק; sweet; sweet(-er, -ness).
mâthôwq
Definition: sweet
Root: or מתוק; from H4985 (מתק);
Exhaustive: or מתוק; from מתק; sweet; sweet(-er, -ness).
9002
ו
None
Definition: and
Root: None
Exhaustive: Conjunctive vav - i.e. followed by prefix, suffix or non-verb (conjunctive) (‘and/but’)
None
Definition: and
Root: None
Exhaustive: Conjunctive vav - i.e. followed by prefix, suffix or non-verb (conjunctive) (‘and/but’)
Conjunction, Adjective adjective both singular absolute
למרס
לְמָר׃ס
None
9018
| ס
None
Definition: Setumah paragraph marker
Root: None
Exhaustive: None
None
Definition: Setumah paragraph marker
Root: None
Exhaustive: None
9016
None
Definition: verseEnd
Root: None
Exhaustive: None
| None
Definition: verseEnd
Root: None
Exhaustive: None
4751
| מר
mar
Definition: bitter (literally or figuratively); also (as noun) bitterness, or (adverbially) bitterly
Root: or (feminine) מרה; from H4843 (מרר);
Exhaustive: or (feminine) מרה; from מרר; bitter (literally or figuratively); also (as noun) bitterness, or (adverbially) bitterly; [phrase] angry, bitter(-ly, -ness), chafed, discontented, [idiom] great, heavy.
mar
Definition: bitter (literally or figuratively); also (as noun) bitterness, or (adverbially) bitterly
Root: or (feminine) מרה; from H4843 (מרר);
Exhaustive: or (feminine) מרה; from מרר; bitter (literally or figuratively); also (as noun) bitterness, or (adverbially) bitterly; [phrase] angry, bitter(-ly, -ness), chafed, discontented, [idiom] great, heavy.
9005
ל
None
Definition: to, for
Root: None
Exhaustive: None
None
Definition: to, for
Root: None
Exhaustive: None
Preposition, Adjective adjective both singular absolute
RBT Translation:
None
RBT Paraphrase:
Hoy, the Ones-who-say to the evil-one ‘good-one’ and to the good-one ‘evil-one’, those-who-put a dark-one to a luminary, and a luminary to a dark-one, those-who-put a bitter-one to a sweet-one, and a sweet-one to a bitter-one.
Hoy, the Ones-who-say to the evil-one ‘good-one’ and to the good-one ‘evil-one’, those-who-put a dark-one to a luminary, and a luminary to a dark-one, those-who-put a bitter-one to a sweet-one, and a sweet-one to a bitter-one.
Julia Smith Literal 1876 Translation:
Wo to those saying, to evil, good, and to the good, evil; putting darkness for light, and light for darkness; putting bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitten.
Wo to those saying, to evil, good, and to the good, evil; putting darkness for light, and light for darkness; putting bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitten.
LITV Translation:
Woe to those who say to evil, good; and to good, evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Woe to those who say to evil, good; and to good, evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Brenton Septuagint Translation:
Woe to them that call evil good, and good evil; who make darkness light, and light darkness; who make bitter sweet, and sweet bitter.
Woe to them that call evil good, and good evil; who make darkness light, and light darkness; who make bitter sweet, and sweet bitter.