Isaiah 40:19
Old Testament • 10 words with Strong's data
"The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains."
Word-by-Word Analysis
מָסַס
mâçaç
to liquefy; figuratively, to waste (with disease), to faint (with fatigue, fear or grief)
צָרַף
tsâraph
to fuse (metal), i.e. refine (literally or figuratively)
זָהָב
zâhâb
gold, figuratively, something gold-colored (i.e. yellow), as oil, a clear sky
שָׁפֵל
shâphêl
to depress or sink (expectation figuratively, to humiliate, intransitive or transitive)
כֶּסֶף
keçeph
silver (from its pale color); by implication, money
שַׁרְשְׁרָה
sharshᵉrâh
a chain; (architectural) probably a garland
Key Terms in This Verse
צָרַף tsâraph
to fuse (metal), i.e. refine (literally or figuratively)
Study H6884 →מָסַס mâçaç
to liquefy; figuratively, to waste (with disease), to faint (with fatigue, fear or grief)
Study H4549 →שָׁפֵל shâphêl
to depress or sink (expectation figuratively, to humiliate, intransitive or transitive)
Study H8213 →זָהָב zâhâb
gold, figuratively, something gold-colored (i.e. yellow), as oil, a clear sky
Study H2091 →Cross References
Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning m...
Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the hou...
They that make them are like unto them: so is every one that trusteth in them.
For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
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