King James Version
Isaiah 53:1 in the King James Version says “Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? report: or, doctrine?: Heb. hearing?” — study this verse from Isaiah chapter 53 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? report: or, doctrine?: Heb. hearing?”
Isaiah 53:1 · KJV
Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? report: or, doctrine?: Heb. hearing?
For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. we hid: or, he hid as it were his face from us: Heb. as an hiding of faces from him, or, from us
KJV Study — Public Domain
who? (occasionally, by a peculiar idiom, of things); also (indefinitely) whoever; often used in oblique construction with prefix or suffix
“Who hath believed”
H539properly, to build up or support; to foster as a parent or nurse; figuratively to render (or be) firm or faithful, to trust or believe, to be permanen
“and to whom is the arm”
H2220the arm (as stretched out), or (of animals) the foreleg; figuratively, force
“of the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
who? (occasionally, by a peculiar idiom, of things); also (indefinitely) whoever; often used in oblique construction with prefix or suffix
“revealed”
H1540to denude (especially in a disgraceful sense); by implication, to exile (captives being usually stripped); figuratively, to reveal
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