Isaiah 26:14
Old Testament • 10 words with Strong's data
"They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish."
Word-by-Word Analysis
מוּת
mûwth
to die (literally or figuratively); causatively, to kill
חָיָה
châyâh
to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive
רָפָא
râphâʼ
properly, lax, i.e. (figuratively) a ghost (as dead; in plural only)
קוּם
qûwm
to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative)
כֵּן
kên
properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner...
פָּקַד
pâqad
to visit (with friendly or hostile intent); by analogy, to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit, etc.
עָשָׂה
ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
זֵכֶר
zêker
a memento, abstractly recollection (rarely if ever); by implication, commemoration
אָבַד
ʼâbad
properly, to wander away, i.e. lose oneself; by implication to perish (causative, destroy)
Key Terms in This Verse
רָפָא râphâʼ
properly, lax, i.e. (figuratively) a ghost (as dead; in plural only)
Study H7496 →זֵכֶר zêker
a memento, abstractly recollection (rarely if ever); by implication, commemoration
Study H2143 →פָּקַד pâqad
to visit (with friendly or hostile intent); by analogy, to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit, etc.
Study H6485 →אָבַד ʼâbad
properly, to wander away, i.e. lose oneself; by implication to perish (causative, destroy)
Study H6 →קוּם qûwm
to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative)
Study H6965 →חָיָה châyâh
to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive
Study H2421 →כֵּן kên
properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner, time and relation; often with other particles)
Study H3651 →Cross References
The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.
And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?
They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.
Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the young child’s life.
And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?
Thus the LORD saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore.
And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
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