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Isaiah 19

Isa. 19:6 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And they shall turn
zanach (Hebrew #2186)
a primitive root meaning to push aside, i.e. reject, forsake, fail
KJV usage: cast away (off), remove far away (off).
Pronounce: zaw-nakh'
the rivers
nahar (Hebrew #5104)
a stream (including the sea; expec. the Nile, Euphrates, etc.); figuratively, prosperity
KJV usage: flood, river.
Pronounce: naw-hawr'
Origin: from 5102
far away
zanach (Hebrew #2186)
a primitive root meaning to push aside, i.e. reject, forsake, fail
KJV usage: cast away (off), remove far away (off).
Pronounce: zaw-nakh'
; and the brooks
y`or (Hebrew #2975)
a channel, e.g. a fosse, canal, shaft; specifically the Nile, as the one river of Egypt, including its collateral trenches; also the Tigris, as the main river of Assyria
KJV usage: brook, flood, river, stream.
Pronounce: yeh-ore'
Origin: of Egyptian origin
s of defence
matsowr (Hebrew #4693)
Egypt (as the border of Palestine)
KJV usage: besieged places, defense, fortified.
Pronounce: maw-tsore'
Origin: the same as 4692 in the sense of a limit
shall be emptied
dalal (Hebrew #1809)
to slacken or be feeble; figuratively, to be oppressed
KJV usage: bring low, dry up, be emptied, be not equal, fail, be impoverished, be made thin.
Pronounce: daw-lal'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 1802)
and dried up
charab (Hebrew #2717)
a primitive root; to parch (through drought) i.e. (by analogy,) to desolate, destroy, kill
KJV usage: decay, (be) desolate, destroy(-er), (be) dry (up), slay, X surely, (lay, lie, make) waste.
Pronounce: khaw-rab'
Origin: or chareb {khaw-rabe'}
: the reeds
qaneh (Hebrew #7070)
a reed (as erect); by resemblance a rod (especially for measuring), shaft, tube, stem, the radius (of the arm), beam (of a steelyard)
KJV usage: balance, bone, branch, calamus, cane, reed, X spearman, stalk.
Pronounce: kaw-neh'
Origin: from 7069
and flags
cuwph (Hebrew #5488)
a reed, especially the papyrus
KJV usage: flag, Red (sea), weed. Compare 5489.
Pronounce: soof
Origin: probably of Egyptian origin
shall wither
qamal (Hebrew #7060)
to wither
KJV usage: hew down, wither.
Pronounce: kaw-mal'
Origin: a primitive root
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2 Kings 19:24• 24I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places. (2 Kings 19:24)

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Flag,
Reed,
River

Cross References

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Isa. 37:25• 25I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places. (Isa. 37:25)
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2 Kings 19:24• 24I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places. (2 Kings 19:24)
the reeds.
Isa. 18:2• 2That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled! (Isa. 18:2)
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Ex. 2:3• 3And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink. (Ex. 2:3)
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Job 8:11• 11Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water? (Job 8:11)

J. N. Darby Translation

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and the rivers shall stink, and the streamsc of Egyptd shall be diminished and drain away: the reeds and sedges shall wither.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "canals."
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The Hebrew is Matsor, applied originally to the fortified part of Egypt in the north-east, 2 Kings 19.24.