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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 shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous unto him. (Isa. 15:4)
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Isa. 24:7• 7The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh. (Isa. 24:7)
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2 Sam. 1:21• 21Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil. (2 Sam. 1:21)
the vine.
Isa. 16:9• 9Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen. (Isa. 16:9)
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Num. 32:38• 38And Nebo, and Baal-meon, (their names being changed,) and Shibmah: and gave other names unto the cities which they builded. (Num. 32:38)
Shibmah.
Josh. 13:19• 19And Kirjathaim, and Sibmah, and Zareth-shahar in the mount of the valley, (Josh. 13:19)
the lords.
Isa. 10:7• 7Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy 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 the king of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts of the field have I given him also to serve him.
 7And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the very time of his land come: and then many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him. (Jer. 27:6‑7)
Jazer.
Num. 32:3• 3Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon, (Num. 32:3)
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Josh. 13:25• 25And their coast was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, unto Aroer that 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.