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Isaiah 16

Isa. 16:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Send
shalach (Hebrew #7971)
to send away, for, or out (in a great variety of applications)
KJV usage: X any wise, appoint, bring (on the way), cast (away, out), conduct, X earnestly, forsake, give (up), grow long, lay, leave, let depart (down, go, loose), push away, put (away, forth, in, out), reach forth, send (away, forth, out), set, shoot (forth, out), sow, spread, stretch forth (out).
Pronounce: shaw-lakh'
Origin: a primitive root
ye the lamb
kar (Hebrew #3733)
a ram (as full-grown and fat), including a battering-ram (as butting); hence, a meadow (as for sheep); also a pad or camel's saddle (as puffed out)
KJV usage: captain, furniture, lamb, (large) pasture, ram. See also 1033, 3746.
Pronounce: kar
Origin: from 3769 in the sense of plumpness
i to the ruler
mashal (Hebrew #4910)
to rule
KJV usage: (have, make to have) dominion, governor, X indeed, reign, (bear, cause to, have) rule(-ing, -r), have power.
Pronounce: maw-shal'
Origin: a primitive root
of the land
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
from κSela
Cela` (Hebrew #5554)
Sela, the rock-city of Idumaea
KJV usage: rock, Sela(-h).
Pronounce: seh'-lah
Origin: the same as 5553
to the wilderness
midbar (Hebrew #4057)
a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs)
KJV usage: desert, south, speech, wilderness.
Pronounce: mid-bawr'
Origin: from 1696 in the sense of driving
, unto the mount
har (Hebrew #2022)
a mountain or range of hills (sometimes used figuratively)
KJV usage: hill (country), mount(-ain), X promotion.
Pronounce: har
Origin: a shortened form of 2042
of the daughter
bath (Hebrew #1323)
a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
KJV usage: apple (of the eye), branch, company, daughter, X first, X old, + owl, town, village.
Pronounce: bath
Origin: from 1129 (as feminine of 1121)
of Zion
Tsiyown (Hebrew #6726)
Tsijon (as a permanent capital), a mountain of Jerusalem
KJV usage: Zion.
Pronounce: tsee-yone'
Origin: the same (regularly) as 6725
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2 Kings 3:4• 4And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster, and rendered unto the king of Israel an hundred thousand lambs, and an hundred thousand rams, with the wool. (2 Kings 3:4)
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a rock, or, Petra.

More on:

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Daughter,
Lamb,
Mountain Mount,
Sela; Selah,
Wilderness,
Zion; Sion; Mount Zion

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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1-5:  Moab is exhorted to yield obedience to the throne of David.
6-8:  Moab is threatened for her pride.
9-11:  The prophet bewails her.
12-14:  The judgment of Moab.
the lamb.
2 Sam. 8:2• 2And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down to the ground; even with two lines measured he to put to death, and with one full line to keep alive. And so the Moabites became David's servants, and brought gifts. (2 Sam. 8:2)
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2 Kings 3:4• 4And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster, and rendered unto the king of Israel an hundred thousand lambs, and an hundred thousand rams, with the wool. (2 Kings 3:4)
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Ezra 7:17• 17That thou mayest buy speedily with this money bullocks, rams, lambs, with their meat offerings and their drink offerings, and offer them upon the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem. (Ezra 7:17)
from.
2 Kings 14:7• 7He slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand, and took Selah by war, and called the name of it Joktheel unto this day. (2 Kings 14:7)
Sela.
or, Petra.
Heb. a rock.
the mount.
Isa. 10:32• 32As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem. (Isa. 10:32)
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Mic. 4:8• 8And thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem. (Mic. 4:8)
• The opening verse of that chapter also refers to the tribute that Moab used to pay, as we see in 2 Kings 3:4. (“Isaiah 16” by F.B. Hole)
• That Moab will exist in the last days is made clear in Daniel 11:41, as we saw also in our prophet, when considering chapter 11:14. (“Isaiah 16” by F.B. Hole)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Send the lamb ofe the ruler of the land from the rock to the wildernessf,—unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "to."
f
Or "from Sela in the wilderness."