Isaiah 17:13
Old Testament • 20 words with Strong's data
"The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind."
Word-by-Word Analysis
גּוֹי
gôwy
a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts
גֹּמֶא
gômeʼ
properly, an absorbent, i.e. the bulrush (from its porosity); specifically the papyrus
דָּמָה
dâmâh
to compare; by implication, to resemble, liken, consider
רַב
rab
abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality)
מַיִם
mayim
water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen
אֱלֹהִים
ʼĕlôhîym
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of...
יָכַח
yâkach
to be right (i.e. correct); reciprocal, to argue; causatively, to decide, justify or convict
נוּס
nûwç
to flit, i.e. vanish away (subside, escape; causatively, chase, impel, deliver)
רָחַק
râchaq
to widen (in any direction), i.e. (intransitively) recede or (transitively) remove (literally or figuratively, of place or relation)
רָדַף
râdaph
to run after (usually with hostile intent; figuratively (of time) gone by)
מֹץ
môts
chaff (as pressed out, i.e. winnowed or (rather) threshed loose)
הַר
har
a mountain or range of hills (sometimes used figuratively)
פָּנִים
pânîym
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi...
רוּחַ
rûwach
wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the ...
דָּמָה
dâmâh
to compare; by implication, to resemble, liken, consider
גַּלְגַּל
galgal
a wheel; by analogy, a whirlwind; also dust (as whirled)
דָּבָר
dâbâr
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
פָּנִים
pânîym
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi...
Key Terms in This Verse
גַּלְגַּל galgal
a wheel; by analogy, a whirlwind; also dust (as whirled)
Study H1534 →גֹּמֶא gômeʼ
properly, an absorbent, i.e. the bulrush (from its porosity); specifically the papyrus
Study H1573 →רָדַף râdaph
to run after (usually with hostile intent; figuratively (of time) gone by)
Study H7291 →יָכַח yâkach
to be right (i.e. correct); reciprocal, to argue; causatively, to decide, justify or convict
Study H3198 →נוּס nûwç
to flit, i.e. vanish away (subside, escape; causatively, chase, impel, deliver)
Study H5127 →רוּחַ rûwach
wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit, but only of a rational...
Study H7307 →רָחַק râchaq
to widen (in any direction), i.e. (intransitively) recede or (transitively) remove (literally or figuratively, of place or relation)
Study H7368 →Cross References
Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.
They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.
Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them.
And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.
Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was ...
In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.
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