Isaiah 27:9
Old Testament • 17 words with Strong's data
"By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up."
Word-by-Word Analysis
כֵּן
kên
properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner...
יַעֲקֹב
Yaʻăqôb
Jaakob, the Israelitish patriarch
טָהֵר
ṭâhêr
to be pure (physical sound, clear, unadulterated; Levitically, uncontaminated; morally, innocent or holy)
פְּרִי
pᵉrîy
fruit (literally or figuratively)
לָקַח
lâqach
to take (in the widest variety of applications)
סוּר
çûwr
to turn off (literal or figurative)
חַטָּאָה
chaṭṭâʼâh
an offence (sometimes habitual sinfulness), and its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, or expiation; also (concretely) an offender
עָשָׂה
ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
English grammatical function word ('chalkstones'). These words (articles, prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs) have no direct equiva...
מָסַר
mâçar
to sunder, i.e. (transitively) set apart, or (reflex.) apostatize
אֲשֵׁרָה
ʼăshêrâh
Asherah (or Astarte) a Phoenician goddess; also an image of the same
עָמַד
ʻâmad
to stand, in various relations (literal and figurative, intransitive and transitive)
Key Terms in This Verse
English grammatical function word ('chalkstones'). These words (articles, prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs) have no direct equivalent in the original Hebrew or Greek text; they ar...
Study GRAM →מָסַר mâçar
to sunder, i.e. (transitively) set apart, or (reflex.) apostatize
Study H4560 →טָהֵר ṭâhêr
to be pure (physical sound, clear, unadulterated; Levitically, uncontaminated; morally, innocent or holy)
Study H2891 →אֲשֵׁרָה ʼăshêrâh
Asherah (or Astarte) a Phoenician goddess; also an image of the same
Study H842 →עָמַד ʻâmad
to stand, in various relations (literal and figurative, intransitive and transitive)
Study H5975 →Cross References
For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.
And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.
And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof from thence.
And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered: and also I will cause the prophets and...
The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.
But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.
When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.
For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man’s house burnt he with fire.
Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.
Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found.
For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.
But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:
And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, a...
And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.
And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that transgress against me: I will bring them forth out of the country where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: an...
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