What Does Isaiah 23:17 Mean?

to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)

“And it shall come to pass after the end”

an extremity; adverbially (with prepositional prefix) after

“of seventy”

seventy

“years”

a year (as a revolution of time)

“will visit”

to visit (with friendly or hostile intent); by analogy, to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit, etc

“that the LORD”

(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god

properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)

“Tyre”

tsor, a place in palestine

“and she shall turn”

to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point);

“to her hire”

a gift (as the price of harlotry or idolatry)

“and shall commit fornication”

to commit adultery (usually of the female, and less often of simple fornication, rarely of involuntary ravishment); figuratively, to commit idolatry (

properly, nearness (used only as a preposition or an adverb), near; hence, generally, with, by, at, among, etc

properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)

“with all the kingdoms”

dominion, i.e., (abstractly) the estate (rule) or (concretely) the country (realm)

“of the world”

the earth (at large, or partitively a land)

above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications

“upon the face”

the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi

“of the earth”

soil (from its general redness)