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Isaiah 17

Isa. 17:5 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Andh it shall be as when the harvestman
qatsiyr (Hebrew #7105)
severed, i.e. harvest (as reaped), the crop, the time, the reaper, or figuratively; also a limb (of a tree, or simply foliage)
KJV usage: bough, branch, harvest (man).
Pronounce: kaw-tseer'
Origin: from 7114
gathereth
'acaph (Hebrew #622)
to gather for any purpose; hence, to receive, take away, i.e. remove (destroy, leave behind, put up, restore, etc.)
KJV usage: assemble, bring, consume, destroy, felch, gather (in, together, up again), X generally, get (him), lose, put all together, receive, recover (another from leprosy), (be) rereward, X surely, take (away, into, up), X utterly, withdraw.
Pronounce: aw-saf'
Origin: a primitive root
the corn
qamah (Hebrew #7054)
something that rises, i.e. a stalk of grain
KJV usage: (standing) corn, grown up, stalk.
Pronounce: kuw-maw'
Origin: feminine of active participle of 6965
, and reapeth
qatsar (Hebrew #7114)
to dock off, i.e. curtail (transitive or intransitive, literal or figurative); especially to harvest (grass or grain)
KJV usage: X at all, cut down, much discouraged, grieve, harvestman, lothe, mourn, reap(-er), (be, wax) short(-en, -er), straiten, trouble, vex.
Pronounce: kaw-tsar'
Origin: a primitive root
the ears
shibbol (Hebrew #7641)
from the same as 7640; a stream (as flowing); also an ear of grain (as growing out); by analogy, a branch
KJV usage: branch, channel, ear (of corn), ((water-))flood, Shibboleth. Compare 5451.
Pronounce: shib-bole
Origin: or (feminine) shibboleth {shib-bo'-leth}
with his arm
zrowa` (Hebrew #2220)
and (feminine) zrowpah {zer-o-aw'}; or zrowah {zer-o-aw'}; from 2232; the arm (as stretched out), or (of animals) the foreleg; figuratively, force
KJV usage: arm, + help, mighty, power, shoulder, strength.
Pronounce: zer-o'-ah
Origin: or (shortened) zroao {zer-o'-ah}
; and it shall be as he that gathereth
laqat (Hebrew #3950)
properly, to pick up, i.e. (generally) to gather; specifically, to glean
KJV usage: gather (up), glean.
Pronounce: law-kat'
Origin: a primitive root
ears
shibbol (Hebrew #7641)
from the same as 7640; a stream (as flowing); also an ear of grain (as growing out); by analogy, a branch
KJV usage: branch, channel, ear (of corn), ((water-))flood, Shibboleth. Compare 5451.
Pronounce: shib-bole
Origin: or (feminine) shibboleth {shib-bo'-leth}
in the valley
`emeq (Hebrew #6010)
a vale (i.e. broad depression)
KJV usage: dale, vale, valley (often used as a part of proper names). See also 1025.
Pronounce: ay'-mek
Origin: from 6009
of Rephaim
rapha' (Hebrew #7497)
from 7495 in the sense of invigorating; a giant
KJV usage: giant, Rapha, Rephaim(-s). See also 1051.
Pronounce: raw-faw'
Origin: or raphah {raw-faw'}
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Jer. 51:33• 33For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing-floor, at the time of its being trodden; yet a little while, and the time of harvest shall come for her. (Jer. 51:33)

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Arm,
Corn,
Rephaim,
Valley of Rephaim

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Ministry on This Verse

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Jer. 9:22• 22Speak, Thus saith Jehovah: Yea, the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the reaper, and there shall be none to gather. (Jer. 9:22)
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Jer. 51:33• 33For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing-floor, at the time of its being trodden; yet a little while, and the time of harvest shall come for her. (Jer. 51:33)
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Hos. 6:11• 11Also, for thee, Judah, is a harvest appointed, when I shall turn again the captivity of my people. (Hos. 6:11)
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Joel 3:13• 13Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down, for the press is full, the vats overflow; for their wickedness is great. (Joel 3:13)
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Matt. 13:30,39‑42• 30Suffer both to grow together unto the harvest, and in time of the harvest I will say to the harvestmen, Gather first the darnel, and bind it into bundles to burn it; but the wheat bring together into my granary.
 39and the enemy who has sowed it is the devil; and the harvest is the completion of the age, and the harvestmen are angels.
 40As then the darnel is gathered and is burned in the fire, thus it shall be in the completion of the age.
 41The Son of man shall send his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all offences, and those that practise lawlessness;
 42and they shall cast them into the furnace of fire; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth. (Matt. 13:30,39‑42)
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Rev. 14:15‑20• 15And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Send thy sickle and reap; for the hour of reaping is come, for the harvest of the earth is dried.
 16And he that sat on the cloud put his sickle on the earth, and the earth was reaped.
 17And another angel came out of the temple which is in the heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.
 18And another angel came out of the altar, having power over fire, and called with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Send thy sharp sickle, and gather the bunches of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripened.
 19And the angel put his sickle to the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast the bunches into the great wine-press of the fury of God;
 20and the wine-press was trodden without the city, and blood went out of the wine-press to the bits of the horses for a thousand six hundred stadia. (Rev. 14:15‑20)
the valley.
Josh. 15:8• 8and the border went up to the valley of the son of Hinnom, toward the south side of the Jebusite, that is, Jerusalem; and the border went up to the top of the mountain that is before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the end of the valley of Rephaim northward; (Josh. 15:8)
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Josh. 18:16• 16And the border went down to the end of the mountain that is before the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is in the valley of Rephaim on the north, and went down the valley of Hinnom, to the side of the Jebusite on the south, and went down to En-rogel; (Josh. 18:16)
the valley of the giants.
2 Sam. 5:18,22• 18And the Philistines came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
 22And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim. (2 Sam. 5:18,22)
• {v.5-8} The figure is used of harvest, whether of corn or of grapes, which would leave them poor and thin, yet a remnant would be left, like a gleaning of grapes or a few berries on an olive tree, and that remnant will turn their eyes to “the Holy One of Israel”, and away from the idolatrous things that formerly held them. All this found a fulfillment in days immediately ahead, yet will have an ampler fulfillment in the last days yet to come. (“Isaiah 17” by F.B. Hole)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And it shall be as when the reaperc gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; yea, it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.

JND Translation Notes

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Lit. "harvest."