Isaiah 31:3
Old Testament • 15 words with Strong's data
"Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail together."
Word-by-Word Analysis
מִצְרַיִם
Mitsrayim
Mitsrajim, i.e. Upper and Lower Egypt
אֱנוֹשׁ
ʼĕnôwsh
a man in general (singly or collectively)
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...
סוּס
çûwç
a horse (as leaping); also a swallow (from its rapid flight)
בָּשָׂר
bâsâr
flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphemistically) the pudenda of aman
רוּחַ
rûwach
wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the ...
יְהֹוָה
Yᵉhôvâh
Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
יָד
yâd
a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.),
συναντιλαμβάνομαι
synantilambánomai
to take hold of opposite together, i.e. co-operate (assist)
נָפַל
nâphal
to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
נָפַל
nâphal
to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
כָּלָה
kâlâh
to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitived (to complete, prepare, consume)
יַחַד
yachad
properly, a unit, i.e. (adverb) unitedly
Key Terms in This Verse
συναντιλαμβάνομαι synantilambánomai
to take hold of opposite together, i.e. co-operate (assist)
Study G4878 →כָּלָה kâlâh
to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitived (to complete, prepare, consume)
Study H3615 →נָפַל nâphal
to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
Study H5307 →נָפַל nâphal
to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
Study H5307 →בָּשָׂר bâsâr
flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphemistically) the pudenda of aman
Study H1320 →Cross References
Therefore the LORD shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all...
Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee.
For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.
Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.
An horse is a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver any by his great strength.
Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.
Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.
They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
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