King James Version
Isaiah 33:22 in the King James Version says “For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; he will save us. lawgiver: Heb. statutemaker” — study this verse from Isaiah chapter 33 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; he will save us. lawgiver: Heb. statutemaker”
Isaiah 33:22 · KJV
Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.
But there the glorious LORD will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby. of: Heb. broad of spaces, or, hands
For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; he will save us. lawgiver: Heb. statutemaker
Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey. Thy: or, They have forsaken thy tacklings
And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.
KJV Study — Public Domain
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
“For the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
“is our judge”
H8199to judge, i.e., pronounce sentence (for or against); by implication, to vindicate or punish; by extenssion, to govern; passively, to litigate (literal
“For the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
“is our lawgiver”
H2710properly, to hack, i.e., engrave (judges 5:14, to be a scribe simply); by implication, to enact (laws being cut in stone or metal tablets in primitive
“For the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
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
“he will save”
H3467properly, to be open, wide or free, i.e., (by implication) to be safe; causatively, to free or succor
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