What Does Isaiah 7:20 Mean?

“In the same day”

a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso

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

“shave”

properly, to be bald, i.e., (causatively) to shave; figuratively to lay waste

“shall the Lord”

the lord (used as a proper name of god only)

“with a razor”

a knife or razor (as making bare); also a scabbard (as being bare, i.e., empty)

“that is hired”

a hiring

“namely by them beyond”

properly, a region across; but used only adverbially (with or without a preposition) on the opposite side (especially of the jordan; ususally meaning

“the river”

a stream (including the sea; expectation the nile, euphrates, etc.); figuratively, prosperity

“by the king”

a king

“of Assyria”

ashshur, the second son of shem; also his descendants and the country occupied by them (i.e., assyria), its region and its empire

properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)

“the head”

the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)

“and the hair”

hair (as if tossed or bristling)

“of the feet”

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

properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and

properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)

“the beard”

the beard (as indicating age)

“and it shall also consume”

properly, to scrape (literally, to shave; but usually figuratively) together (i.e., to accumulate or increase) or away (i.e., to scatter, remove, or r