Isaiah 28:27
Old Testament • 15 words with Strong's data
"For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod."
Word-by-Word Analysis
כֻּסֶּמֶת
kuççemeth
spelt (from its bristliness as if just shorn)
כְּלִי
kᵉlîy
something prepared, i.e. any apparatus (as an implement, utensil, dress, vessel or weapon)
לֹא
lôʼ
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
עֲגָלָה
ʻăgâlâh
something revolving, i.e. a wheeled vehicle
הָפַךְ
hâphak
to turn about or over; by implication, to change, overturn, return, pervert
סָבִיב
çâbîyb
(as noun) a circle, neighbour, or environs; but chiefly (as adverb, with or without preposition) around
כַּמֹּן
kammôn
'cummin' (from its use as a condiment)
כֻּסֶּמֶת
kuççemeth
spelt (from its bristliness as if just shorn)
מַטֶּה
maṭṭeh
a branch (as extending); figuratively, a tribe; also a rod, whether for chastising (figuratively, correction), ruling (a sceptre), throwing (a lance),...
כַּמֹּן
kammôn
'cummin' (from its use as a condiment)
מַטֶּה
maṭṭeh
a branch (as extending); figuratively, a tribe; also a rod, whether for chastising (figuratively, correction), ruling (a sceptre), throwing (a lance),...
Key Terms in This Verse
כְּלִי kᵉlîy
something prepared, i.e. any apparatus (as an implement, utensil, dress, vessel or weapon)
Study H3627 →Cross References
Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.
Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the LORD: for I am with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct the...
Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:
O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.
Neither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like the dust by threshing.
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