Isaiah 38:17
Old Testament • 13 words with Strong's data
"Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back."
Word-by-Word Analysis
רָאָה
râʼâh
to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
שָׁלוֹם
shâlôwm
safe, i.e. (figuratively) well, happy, friendly; also (abstractly) welfare, i.e. health, prosperity, peace
גָּדוֹל
gâdôwl
great (in any sense); hence, older; also insolent
מַר
mar
bitter (literally or figuratively); also (as noun) bitterness, or (adverbially) bitterly
אָהַב
ʼâhab
to have affection for (sexually or otherwise)
נֶפֶשׁ
nephesh
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or menta...
נָתַן
nâthan
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
בּוֹר
bôwr
a pit hole (especially one used as a cistern or a prison)
שָׁלַךְ
shâlak
to throw out, down or away (literally or figuratively)
חַטָּאָה
chaṭṭâʼâh
an offence (sometimes habitual sinfulness), and its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, or expiation; also (concretely) an offender
אַחַר
ʼachar
properly, the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after (in various senses)
שׁוּב
shûwb
to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); ...
Key Terms in This Verse
מַר mar
bitter (literally or figuratively); also (as noun) bitterness, or (adverbially) bitterly
Study H4751 →אַחַר ʼachar
properly, the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after (in various senses)
Study H310 →שׁוּב shûwb
to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); generally to retreat; often adverbial, again
Study H7725 →חַטָּאָה chaṭṭâʼâh
an offence (sometimes habitual sinfulness), and its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, or expiation; also (concretely) an offender
Study H2403 →נָתַן nâthan
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
Study H5414 →שָׁלוֹם shâlôwm
safe, i.e. (figuratively) well, happy, friendly; also (abstractly) welfare, i.e. health, prosperity, peace
Study H7965 →נֶפֶשׁ nephesh
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
Study H5315 →Cross References
I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.
And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: fo...
O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their sin. Selah.
Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.
The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
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