King James Version
Isaiah 1:5 in the King James Version says “Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. rev...” — study this verse from Isaiah chapter 1 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. revolt: Heb. increase revolt”
Isaiah 1:5 · KJV
The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward. laden: Heb. of heaviness gone: Heb. alienated, or, separated
Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. revolt: Heb. increase revolt
From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment. ointment: or, oil
Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers. overthrown: Heb. the overthrow of
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above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and
“Why should ye be stricken”
H5221to strike (lightly or severely, literally or figuratively)
properly, iteration or continuance; used only adverbially (with or without preposition), again, repeatedly, still, more
“more and more”
H3254to add or augment (often adverbial, to continue to do a thing)
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“the whole head”
H7218the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
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