Isaiah 15:3
Old Testament • 11 words with Strong's data
"In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly."
Word-by-Word Analysis
חוּץ
chûwts
properly, separate by awall, i.e. outside, outdoors
חָגַר
châgar
to gird on (as a belt, armor, etc.)
עָשָׂה
ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
שַׂק
saq
properly, a mesh (as allowing a liquid to run through), i.e. coarse loose cloth or sacking (used in mourning and for bagging); hence, a bag (for grain...
רֹאשׁ
rôʼsh
the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
בַּיִת
bayith
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
חוּץ
chûwts
properly, separate by awall, i.e. outside, outdoors
אֶחָד
ʼechâd
properly, united, i.e. one; or (as an ordinal) first
יָלַל
yâlal
to howl (with a wailing tone) or yell (with a boisterous one)
בְּכִי
Bᵉkîy
a weeping; by analogy, a dripping
שָׁרַץ
shârats
to wriggle, i.e. (by implication) swarm or abound
Key Terms in This Verse
רֹאשׁ rôʼsh
the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
Study H7218 →שַׂק saq
properly, a mesh (as allowing a liquid to run through), i.e. coarse loose cloth or sacking (used in mourning and for bagging); hence, a bag (for grain, etc.)
Study H8242 →בַּיִת bayith
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
Study H1004 →עָשָׂה ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
Study H6213 →Cross References
He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.
When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence.
And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he rent his clothes; and he passed by upon the wall, and the people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth within upon his flesh.
The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?
Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of hea...
And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David himself followed the bier.
Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.
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