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Isaiah 16

Isa. 16:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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For it shall be, that, as a wandering
nadad (Hebrew #5074)
properly, to wave to and fro (rarely to flap up and down); figuratively, to rove, flee, or (causatively) to drive away
KJV usage: chase (away), X could not, depart, flee (X apace, away), (re-)move, thrust away, wander (abroad, -er, -ing).
Pronounce: naw-dad'
Origin: a primitive root
bird
`owph (Hebrew #5775)
a bird (as covered with feathers, or rather as covering with wings), often collectively
KJV usage: bird, that flieth, flying, fowl.
Pronounce: ofe
Origin: from 5774
λcast out
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
of the nest
qen (Hebrew #7064)
a nest (as fixed), sometimes including the nestlings; figuratively, a chamber or dwelling
KJV usage: nest, room.
Pronounce: kane
Origin: contracted from 7077
, so the daughters
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 Moab
Mow'ab (Hebrew #4124)
from (her (the mother's)) father; Moab, an incestuous son of Lot; also his territory and descendants
KJV usage: Moab.
Pronounce: mo-awb
Origin: from a prolonged form of the prepositional prefix m- and 1
shall be at the fords
ma`abar (Hebrew #4569)
from 5674; a crossing-place (of a river, a ford; of a mountain, a pass); abstractly, a transit, i.e. (figuratively) overwhelming
KJV usage: ford, place where...pass, passage.
Pronounce: mah-ab-awr'
Origin: or feminine mapabarah {mah-ab-aw-raw'}
ofk Arnon
'Arnown (Hebrew #769)
from 7442; a brawling stream; the Arnon, a river east of the Jordan, also its territory
KJV usage: Arnon.
Pronounce: ar-nohn'
Origin: or uArnon {ar-nohn'}
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or, a nest forsaken.
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Num. 21:13• 13From thence they removed, and encamped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness that comes out of the border of the Amorites. For the Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites. (Num. 21:13)

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Arnon,
Daughter,
Fords,
Moab; Moabites

Cross References

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Isa. 13:14• 14And it shall be as with a chased roe, and as with a flock that no man gathereth together; every one shall turn to his own people, and every one flee into his own land. (Isa. 13:14)
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Prov. 27:8• 8As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place. (Prov. 27:8)
cast out of the nest.
or, a nest forsaken.
the fords.
Num. 21:13‑15• 13From thence they removed, and encamped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness that comes out of the border of the Amorites. For the Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.
 14Therefore it is said in the book of the wars of Jehovah, Vaheb in Suphah, and the brooks of Arnon;
 15And the stream of the brooks which turneth to the dwelling of Ar, And inclineth toward the border of Moab. (Num. 21:13‑15)
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Deut. 2:36• 36From Aroer, which is on the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the ravine even to Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us: Jehovah our God delivered all before us. (Deut. 2:36)
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Deut. 3:8,12• 8And we took at that time the land out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites, that were on this side the Jordan, from the river Arnon to mount Hermon
 12And this land we took in possession at that time. From Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, and the half of mount Gilead, and its cities, I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites; (Deut. 3:8,12)
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Josh. 13:16• 16And their territory was from Aroer, which is on the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the ravine, and all the plateau by Medeba; (Josh. 13:16)
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Judg. 11:18• 18And they walked through the wilderness, and went round the land of Edom and the land of Moab, and came by the east of the land of Moab, and encamped beyond the Arnon, but came not within the border of Moab, for the Arnon is the border of Moab. (Judg. 11:18)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And it shall be that as a wandering bird, as a scattered nest, so shall the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon.