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Isaiah 16

Isa. 16:8 KJV (With Strong’s)

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For the fields
shdemah (Hebrew #7709)
apparently from 7704; a cultivated field; -- blasted, field.
Pronounce: shed-ay-maw'
of Heshbon
Cheshbown (Hebrew #2809)
Cheshbon, a place East of the Jordan
KJV usage: Heshbon.
Pronounce: khesh-bone'
Origin: the same as 2808
languish
'amal (Hebrew #535)
to droop; by implication to be sick, to mourn
KJV usage: languish, be weak, wax feeble.
Pronounce: aw-mal'
Origin: a primitive root
, and the vine
gephen (Hebrew #1612)
a vine (as twining), especially the grape
KJV usage: vine, tree.
Pronounce: gheh'-fen
Origin: from an unused root meaning to bend
of Sibmah
Sbam (Hebrew #7643)
probably from 1313; spice; Sebam or Sibmah, a place in Moab
KJV usage: Shebam, Shibmah, Sibmah.
Pronounce: seb-awm'
Origin: or (feminine) Sibmah {sib-maw'}
: the lords
ba`al (Hebrew #1167)
a master; hence, a husband, or (figuratively) owner (often used with another noun in modifications of this latter sense)
KJV usage: + archer, + babbler, + bird, captain, chief man, + confederate, + have to do, + dreamer, those to whom it is due, + furious, those that are given to it, great, + hairy, he that hath it, have, + horseman, husband, lord, man, + married, master, person, + sworn, they of.
Pronounce: bah'-al
Origin: from 1166
of the heathen
gowy (Hebrew #1471)
apparently from the same root as 1465 (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts
KJV usage: Gentile, heathen, nation, people.
Pronounce: go'-ee
Origin: rarely (shortened) goy {go'-ee}
have broken down
halam (Hebrew #1986)
to strike down; by implication, to hammer, stamp, conquer, disband
KJV usage: beat (down), break (down), overcome, smite (with the hammer).
Pronounce: haw-lam'
Origin: a primitive root
the principal plants
saruwq (Hebrew #8291)
a grapevine
KJV usage: principal plant. See 8320, 8321.
Pronounce: sar-ook'
Origin: passive participle from the same as 8321
thereof, they are come
naga` (Hebrew #5060)
properly, to touch, i.e. lay the hand upon (for any purpose; euphem., to lie with a woman); by implication, to reach (figuratively, to arrive, acquire); violently, to strike (punish, defeat, destroy, etc.)
KJV usage: beat, (X be able to) bring (down), cast, come (nigh), draw near (nigh), get up, happen, join, near, plague, reach (up), smite, strike, touch.
Pronounce: naw-gah'
Origin: a primitive root
even unto Jazer
Ya`azeyr (Hebrew #3270)
from 5826; helpful; Jaazer or Jazer, a place East of the Jordan
KJV usage: Jaazer, Jazer.
Pronounce: yah-az-ayr'
Origin: or Yazer {yah-zare'}
, they wandered
ta`ah (Hebrew #8582)
to vacillate, i.e. reel or stray (literally or figuratively); also causative of both
KJV usage: (cause to) go astray, deceive, dissemble, (cause to, make to) err, pant, seduce, (make to) stagger, (cause to) wander, be out of the way.
Pronounce: taw-aw'
Origin: a primitive root
through 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
: her branches
shilluchah (Hebrew #7976)
a shoot
KJV usage: branch.
Pronounce: shil-loo-khaw'
Origin: feminine of 7964
are ψstretched out
natash (Hebrew #5203)
properly, to pound, i.e. smite; by implication (as if beating out, and thus expanding) to disperse; also, to thrust off, down, out or upon (inclusively, reject, let alone, permit, remit, etc.)
KJV usage: cast off, drawn, let fall, forsake, join (battle), leave (off), lie still, loose, spread (self) abroad, stretch out, suffer.
Pronounce: naw-tash'
Origin: a primitive root
, they are gone over
`abar (Hebrew #5674)
to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in copulation)
KJV usage: alienate, alter, X at all, beyond, bring (over, through), carry over, (over-)come (on, over), conduct (over), convey over, current, deliver, do away, enter, escape, fail, gender, get over, (make) go (away, beyond, by, forth, his way, in, on, over, through), have away (more), lay, meddle, overrun, make partition, (cause to, give, make to, over) pass(-age, along, away, beyond, by, -enger, on, out, over, through), (cause to, make) + proclaim(-amation), perish, provoke to anger, put away, rage, + raiser of taxes, remove, send over, set apart, + shave, cause to (make) sound, X speedily, X sweet smelling, take (away), (make to) transgress(-or), translate, turn away, (way-)faring man, be wrath.
Pronounce: aw-bar'
Origin: a primitive root
the sea
yam (Hebrew #3220)
a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water; specifically (with the article), the Mediterranean Sea; sometimes a large river, or an artifical basin; locally, the west, or (rarely) the south
KJV usage: sea (X -faring man, (-shore)), south, west (-ern, side, -ward).
Pronounce: yawm
Origin: from an unused root meaning to roar
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or, plucked up.

More on:

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Heathen,
Heshbon,
Jazer,
Lord,
Sea,
Sibmah,
Vine; Vineyard,
Wilderness

Cross References

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the fields.
Isa. 15:4• 4And Heshbon crieth, and Elealeh: their voice is heard unto Jahaz. Therefore the armed men of Moab cry out: his soul trembleth in him. (Isa. 15:4)
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Isa. 24:7• 7The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all that were merry-hearted do sigh; (Isa. 24:7)
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2 Sam. 1:21• 21Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, no rain upon you, nor fields of heave-offerings! For there the shield of the mighty was vilely cast away, The shield of Saul, as not anointed with oil. (2 Sam. 1:21)
the vine.
Isa. 16:9• 9Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jaazer for the vine of Sibmah; with my tears will I water thee, Heshbon, and Elealeh, for a cry is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy harvest. (Isa. 16:9)
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Num. 32:38• 38and Nebo, and Baal-meon (of which the names were changed), and Sibmah; and they gave other names to the cities that they built. (Num. 32:38)
Shibmah.
Josh. 13:19• 19and Kirjathaim, and Sibmah, and Zereth-shahar in the mountain of the vale, (Josh. 13:19)
the lords.
Isa. 10:7• 7But he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; for it is in his heart to extirpate and cut off nations not a few. (Isa. 10:7)
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Jer. 27:6‑7• 6And now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts of the field also have I given him to serve him.
 7And all the nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the time of his land also come, when many nations and great kings shall reduce him to servitude. (Jer. 27:6‑7)
Jazer.
Num. 32:3• 3Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jaazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elaleh, and Sebam, and Nebo, and Beon, (Num. 32:3)
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Josh. 13:25• 25And their territory was Jaazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, to Aroer which is before Rabbah; (Josh. 13:25)
stretched out.
or, plucked up.

J. N. Darby Translation

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For the fields of Heshbon languish, the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have broken down its choice plants: they reached unto Jaazer, they wandered through the wilderness; its shoots stretched out, they went beyond the sea.