King James Version
Isaiah 45:4 in the King James Version says “For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though th...” — study this verse from Isaiah chapter 45 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.”
Isaiah 45:4 · KJV
I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight : I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:
And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the LORD, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.
For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.
I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:
That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, heed, i.e., purpose; used only adverbially, on account of (as a motive or an aim), teleologically, in order that
“sake and Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
“I have even called”
H7121to call out to (i.e., properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications)
“thee by thy name”
H8034an appellation, as a mark or memorial of individuality; by implication honor, authority, character
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
“thee though thou hast not known”
H3045to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including o
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