Isaiah 6:12
Old Testament • 9 words with Strong's data
"And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land."
Word-by-Word Analysis
יְהֹוָה
Yᵉhôvâh
Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
נָסַע
nâçaʻ
properly, to pull up, especially the tent-pins, i.e. start on ajourney
אֱנוֹשׁ
ʼĕnôwsh
a man in general (singly or collectively)
רָחַק
râchaq
to widen (in any direction), i.e. (intransitively) recede or (transitively) remove (literally or figuratively, of place or relation)
סוּר
çûwr
to turn off (literal or figurative)
גָּדוֹל
gâdôwl
great (in any sense); hence, older; also insolent
תָּוֶךְ
tâvek
a bisection, i.e. (by implication) the centre
אֶרֶץ
ʼerets
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
Key Terms in This Verse
נָסַע nâçaʻ
properly, to pull up, especially the tent-pins, i.e. start on ajourney
Study H5265 →רָחַק râchaq
to widen (in any direction), i.e. (intransitively) recede or (transitively) remove (literally or figuratively, of place or relation)
Study H7368 →Cross References
The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city shall be forsaken, and not a man dwell therein.
And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and...
Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.
Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth.
And the king of Babylon smote them, and slew them at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away out of their land.
Now the rest of the people that were left in the city, and the fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon, with the remnant of the multitude, did Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carry away.
And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.
For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
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