Isaiah 1:4

Old Testament • 20 words with Strong's data

"Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward."

Word-by-Word Analysis

הוֹי

hôwy

H1945

oh!

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חַטָּא

chaṭṭâʼ

H2400

a criminal, or one accounted guilty

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גּוֹי

gôwy

H1471

a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts

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a

עַם

ʻam

H5971

a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock

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נָשָׂא

nâsâʼ

H5375

to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absolute and relative

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with

עָוֺן

ʻâvôn

H5771

perversity, i.e. (moral) evil

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a

זֶרַע

zeraʻ

H2233

seed; figuratively, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity

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of

רָעַע

râʻaʻ

H7489

properly, to spoil (literally, by breaking to pieces); figuratively, to make (or be) good fornothing, i.e. bad (physically, socially or morally)

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בֵּן

bên

H1121

a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or ...

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that are

English grammatical function word ('corrupters'). These words (articles, prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs) have no direct equival...

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they have

עָזַב

ʻâzab

H5800

to loosen, i.e. relinquish, permit, etc.

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the

יְהֹוָה

Yᵉhôvâh

H3068

Jehovah, Jewish national name of God

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they have

מָרָה

mârâh

H4784

to be (causatively, make) bitter (or unpleasant); (figuratively) to rebel (or resist; causatively, to provoke)

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the

קֹדֶשׁ

qôdesh

H6944

a sacred place or thing; rarely abstract, sanctity

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אֶחָד

ʼechâd

H259

properly, united, i.e. one; or (as an ordinal) first

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of

יִשְׂרָאֵל

Yisrâʼêl

H3478

Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity

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unto

אַף

ʼaph

H639

properly, the nose or nostril; hence, the face, and occasionally a person; also (from the rapid breathing in passion) ire

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they are

הָלַךְ

hâlak

H1980

to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)

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סוּר

çûwr

H5493

to turn off (literal or figurative)

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אָחוֹר

ʼâchôwr

H268

the hinder part; hence (adverb) behind, backward; also (as facing north) the West

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Key Terms in This Verse

corrupters GRAM

English grammatical function word ('corrupters'). These words (articles, prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs) have no direct equivalent in the original Hebrew or Greek text; they are...

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laden H5375

נָשָׂא nâsâʼ

to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absolute and relative

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sinful H2400

חַטָּא chaṭṭâʼ

a criminal, or one accounted guilty

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evildoers H7489

רָעַע râʻaʻ

properly, to spoil (literally, by breaking to pieces); figuratively, to make (or be) good fornothing, i.e. bad (physically, socially or morally)

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Ah H1945

הוֹי hôwy

oh!

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backward H268

אָחוֹר ʼâchôwr

the hinder part; hence (adverb) behind, backward; also (as facing north) the West

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provoked H4784

מָרָה mârâh

to be (causatively, make) bitter (or unpleasant); (figuratively) to rebel (or resist; causatively, to provoke)

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forsaken H5800

עָזַב ʻâzab

to loosen, i.e. relinquish, permit, etc.

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nation H1471

גּוֹי gôwy

a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts

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gone H1980

הָלַךְ hâlak

to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)

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Cross References

Isaiah 5:24 cross-reference

Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the ...

Jeremiah 2:17 cross-reference

Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?

Jeremiah 2:13 cross-reference

For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

Romans 8:7 cross-reference

Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

Isaiah 5:19 cross-reference

That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!

Jeremiah 7:19 cross-reference

Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?

Matthew 3:7 cross-reference

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

Jeremiah 2:19 cross-reference

Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear...

Deuteronomy 32:19 cross-reference

And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.

Jeremiah 2:31 cross-reference

O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?

Isaiah 37:23 cross-reference

Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.

Psalm 89:18 cross-reference

For the LORD is our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is our king.

Numbers 32:14 cross-reference

And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers’ stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel.

Deuteronomy 29:25 cross-reference

Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt:

Isaiah 41:14 cross-reference

Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 30:15 cross-reference

For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.

Judges 10:10 cross-reference

And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, saying, We have sinned against thee, both because we have forsaken our God, and also served Baalim.

Psalm 78:8 cross-reference

And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.

Isaiah 29:19 cross-reference

The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

Jeremiah 2:33 cross-reference

Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.

Isaiah 41:16 cross-reference

Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 65:3 cross-reference

A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;

Isaiah 10:6 cross-reference

I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the street...

Genesis 13:13 cross-reference

But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.

Jeremiah 50:29 cross-reference

Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do...

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