King James Version
Isaiah 2:22 in the King James Version says “Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?” — study this verse from Isaiah chapter 2 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?”
Isaiah 2:22 · KJV
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; his idols of silver: Heb. the idols of his silver, etc each: or, for him
To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?
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“Cease”
H2308properly, to be flabby, i.e., (by implication) desist; (figuratively) be lacking or idle
“ye from man”
H120ruddy i.e., a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.)
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
“whose breath”
H5397a puff, i.e., wind, angry or vital breath, divine inspiration, intellect. or (concretely) an animal
“is in his nostrils”
H639properly, the nose or nostril; hence, the face, and occasionally a person; also (from the rapid breathing in passion) ire
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and
“for wherein is he to be accounted of”
H2803properly, to plait or interpenetrate, i.e., (literally) to weave or (generally) to fabricate; figuratively, to plot or contrive (usually in a maliciou
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
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