King James Version
Isaiah 23:10 in the King James Version says “Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more strength. strength: Heb. girdle” — study this verse from Isaiah chapter 23 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more strength. strength: Heb. girdle”
Isaiah 23:10 · KJV
Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?
The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth. to stain: Heb. to pollute
Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more strength. strength: Heb. girdle
He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the LORD hath given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy the strong holds thereof. against: or, concerning a merchantman the merchant city: Heb. Canaan strong: or, strengths
And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim; there also shalt thou have no rest.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“Pass”
H5674to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in
“as a river”
H2975a channel, e.g., a fosse, canal, shaft; specifically the nile, as the one river of egypt, including its collateral trenches; also the tigris, as the m
“O daughter”
H1323a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
“of Tarshish”
H8659tarshish, a place on the mediterranean, hence, the ephithet of a merchant vessel (as if for or from that port); also the name of a persian and of an i
properly, iteration or continuance; used only adverbially (with or without preposition), again, repeatedly, still, more
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