What Does Isaiah 52:7 Mean?

properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and

“How beautiful”

properly, to be at home, i.e., (by implication) to be pleasant (or suitable), i.e., beautiful

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

“upon the mountains”

a mountain or range of hills (sometimes used figuratively)

“are the feet”

a foot (as used in walking); by implication, a step; by euphemistically the pudenda

“of him that bringeth good tidings”

properly, to be fresh, i.e., full (rosy, figuratively cheerful); to announce (glad news)

“that publisheth”

to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)

“peace”

safe, i.e., (figuratively) well, happy, friendly; also (abstractly) welfare, i.e., health, prosperity, peace

“of him that bringeth good tidings”

properly, to be fresh, i.e., full (rosy, figuratively cheerful); to announce (glad news)

“of good”

good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good

“that publisheth”

to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)

“salvation”

something saved, i.e., (abstractly) deliverance; hence, aid, victory, prosperity

“that saith”

to say (used with great latitude)

“unto Zion”

tsijon (as a permanent capital), a mountain of jerusalem

“reigneth”

to reign; hence (by implication) to take counsel

“Thy God”

gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme god; occasionally applied by way of