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Isaiah 3

Isa. 3:16 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Moreover the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
saith
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
, Because
ya`an (Hebrew #3282)
properly, heed; by implication, purpose (sake or account); used adverbially to indicate the reason or cause
KJV usage: because (that), forasmuch (+ as), seeing then, + that, + wheras, + why.
Pronounce: yah'-an
Origin: from an unused root meaning to pay attention
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 Zion
Tsiyown (Hebrew #6726)
Tsijon (as a permanent capital), a mountain of Jerusalem
KJV usage: Zion.
Pronounce: tsee-yone'
Origin: the same (regularly) as 6725
are haughty
gabahh (Hebrew #1361)
to soar, i.e. be lofty; figuratively, to be haughty
KJV usage: exalt, be haughty, be (make) high(-er), lift up, mount up, be proud, raise up great height, upward.
Pronounce: gaw-bah'
Origin: a primitive root
, and walk
yalak (Hebrew #3212)
to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)
KJV usage: X again, away, bear, bring, carry (away), come (away), depart, flow, + follow(-ing), get (away, hence, him), (cause to, made) go (away, -ing, -ne, one's way, out), grow, lead (forth), let down, march, prosper, + pursue, cause to run, spread, take away ((-journey)), vanish, (cause to) walk(-ing), wax, X be weak.
Pronounce: yaw-lak'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 1980)
with stretched forth
natah (Hebrew #5186)
to stretch or spread out; by implication, to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of application (as follows)
KJV usage: + afternoon, apply, bow (down, - ing), carry aside, decline, deliver, extend, go down, be gone, incline, intend, lay, let down, offer, outstretched, overthrown, pervert, pitch, prolong, put away, shew, spread (out), stretch (forth, out), take (aside), turn (aside, away), wrest, cause to yield.
Pronounce: naw-taw'
Origin: a primitive root
necks
garown (Hebrew #1627)
from 1641; the throat (compare 1621) (as roughened by swallowing)
KJV usage: X aloud, mouth, neck, throat.
Pronounce: gaw-rone'
Origin: or (shortened) garon {gaw-rone'}
and νwanton
saqar (Hebrew #8265)
to ogle, i.e. blink coquettishly
KJV usage: wanton.
Pronounce: saw-kar'
Origin: a primitive root
eyes
`ayin (Hebrew #5869)
an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
KJV usage: affliction, outward appearance, + before, + think best, colour, conceit, + be content, countenance, + displease, eye((-brow), (-d), -sight), face, + favour, fountain, furrow (from the margin), X him, + humble, knowledge, look, (+ well), X me, open(-ly), + (not) please, presence, + regard, resemblance, sight, X thee, X them, + think, X us, well, X you(-rselves).
Pronounce: ah'-yin
Origin: probably a primitive word
, walking
halak (Hebrew #1980)
a primitive root; to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
KJV usage: (all) along, apace, behave (self), come, (on) continually, be conversant, depart, + be eased, enter, exercise (self), + follow, forth, forward, get, go (about, abroad, along, away, forward, on, out, up and down), + greater, grow, be wont to haunt, lead, march, X more and more, move (self), needs, on, pass (away), be at the point, quite, run (along), + send, speedily, spread, still, surely, + tale-bearer, + travel(-ler), walk (abroad, on, to and fro, up and down, to places), wander, wax, (way-)faring man, X be weak, whirl.
Pronounce: haw-lak'
Origin: akin to 3212
and πmincing
taphaph (Hebrew #2952)
apparently to trip (with short steps) coquettishly
KJV usage: mince.
Pronounce: taw-faf'
Origin: a primitive root
as they go
yalak (Hebrew #3212)
to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)
KJV usage: X again, away, bear, bring, carry (away), come (away), depart, flow, + follow(-ing), get (away, hence, him), (cause to, made) go (away, -ing, -ne, one's way, out), grow, lead (forth), let down, march, prosper, + pursue, cause to run, spread, take away ((-journey)), vanish, (cause to) walk(-ing), wax, X be weak.
Pronounce: yaw-lak'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 1980)
, and making a tinkling
`akac (Hebrew #5913)
properly, to tie, specifically, with fetters; but used only as denominative from 5914; to put on anklets
KJV usage: make a tinkling ornament.
Pronounce: aw-kas'
Origin: a primitive root
with their feet
regel (Hebrew #7272)
a foot (as used in walking); by implication, a step; by euphem. the pudenda
KJV usage: X be able to endure, X according as, X after, X coming, X follow, ((broken-))foot((-ed, -stool)), X great toe, X haunt, X journey, leg, + piss, + possession, time.
Pronounce: reh'-gel
Origin: from 7270
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deceiving with their eyes.
π
or, tripping nicely.

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Daughter,
Zion; Sion; Mount Zion

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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the daughters.
Isa. 1:8• 8And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city. (Isa. 1:8)
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Isa. 4:4• 4When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning. (Isa. 4:4)
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Matt. 21:5• 5Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass. (Matt. 21:5)
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Luke 23:28• 28But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children. (Luke 23:28)
are haughty.
Isa. 24:4• 4The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish. (Isa. 24:4)
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Isa. 32:9‑11• 9Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.
 10Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.
 11Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins. (Isa. 32:9‑11)
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Prov. 16:18• 18Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. (Prov. 16:18)
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Prov. 30:13• 13There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up. (Prov. 30:13)
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Ezek. 16:49‑50• 49Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
 50And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good. (Ezek. 16:49‑50)
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Zeph. 3:11• 11In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me: for then I will take away out of the midst of thee them that rejoice in thy pride, and thou shalt no more be haughty because of my holy mountain. (Zeph. 3:11)
wanton eyes.
Heb. deceiving with their eyes.Or, as {messakkaroth ainayim} is rendered in the Targum, "painting their eyes with stibium:"
for {sakar} is probably the same as the Chaldee {sekar,} or that import.mincing.
or, tripping nicely.
and making.The Eastern ladies wear on their ankles large rings to which smaller ones are attached, which make a tinkling sound as they move nimbly.
• But the evil of the day was not confined to the leaders, or to the men of the nation, such as are described in verses 2 and 3. The women also were deeply implicated. Their state is denounced from verse 16 to the end of the chapter. They adopted all the devices, well-practiced in the heathen world, in order to increase the seductiveness of their attractions. (“Isaiah 3” by F.B. Hole)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And Jehovah said, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched-out neck and wanton eyes, and go along mincing, and making a tinkling with their feet;