Isaiah 5:28
Old Testament • 13 words with Strong's data
"Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses’ hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:"
Word-by-Word Analysis
אֲשֶׁר
ʼăsher
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.
חֵץ
chêts
properly, a piercer, i.e. an arrow; by implication, a wound; figuratively, (of God) thunderbolt; the shaft of aspear
שָׁנַן
shânan
to point (transitive or intransitive); intensively, to pierce; figuratively, to inculcate
קֶשֶׁת
qesheth
a bow, forshooting (hence, figuratively, strength) or the iris
דָּרַךְ
dârak
to tread; by implication, to walk; also to string abow (by treading on it in bending)
סוּס
çûwç
a horse (as leaping); also a swallow (from its rapid flight)
חָשַׁב
châshab
properly, to plait or interpenetrate, i.e. (literally) to weave or (generally) to fabricate; figuratively, to plot or contrive (usually in a malicious...
דָּמָה
dâmâh
to compare; by implication, to resemble, liken, consider
דָּמָה
dâmâh
to compare; by implication, to resemble, liken, consider
Key Terms in This Verse
דָּרַךְ dârak
to tread; by implication, to walk; also to string abow (by treading on it in bending)
Study H1869 →קֶשֶׁת qesheth
a bow, forshooting (hence, figuratively, strength) or the iris
Study H7198 →שָׁנַן shânan
to point (transitive or intransitive); intensively, to pierce; figuratively, to inculcate
Study H8150 →חָשַׁב châshab
properly, to plait or interpenetrate, i.e. (literally) to weave or (generally) to fabricate; figuratively, to plot or contrive (usually in a malicious sense); hence (from the mental effort) to think, ...
Study H2803 →חֵץ chêts
properly, a piercer, i.e. an arrow; by implication, a wound; figuratively, (of God) thunderbolt; the shaft of aspear
Study H2671 →Cross References
Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.
The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.
Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the LORD, and t...
Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.
Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.
Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.
At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses, at the rushing of his chariots, and at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to their children for feebleness of h...
The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots.
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