King James Version
Isaiah 38:22 in the King James Version says “Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?” — study this verse from Isaiah chapter 38 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?”
Isaiah 38:22 · KJV
The LORD was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD.
For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover.
Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and
“What is the sign”
H226a signal (literally or figuratively), as a flag, beacon, monument, omen, prodigy, evidence, etc
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
“that I shall go up”
H5927to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative
“to the house”
H1004a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
“of the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
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