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Isaiah 3

Isa. 3:24 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell
besem (Hebrew #1314)
from the same as 1313; fragrance; by implication, spicery; also the balsam plant
KJV usage: smell, spice, sweet (odour).
Pronounce: beh'-sem
Origin: or bosem {bo'-sem}
there shall be stink
maq (Hebrew #4716)
properly, a melting, i.e. putridity
KJV usage: rottenness, stink.
Pronounce: mak
Origin: from 4743
; and instead of a girdle
chagowr (Hebrew #2290)
and (feminine) chagowrah {khag-o-raw'}; or chagorah {khag-o-raw'}; from 2296; a belt (for the waist)
KJV usage: apron, armour, gird(-le).
Pronounce: khag-ore'
Origin: or chagor {khag-ore'}
a rent
niqpah (Hebrew #5364)
probably a rope (as encircling)
KJV usage: rent.
Pronounce: nik-paw'
Origin: from 5362
; and instead of well set
ma`aseh (Hebrew #4639)
an action (good or bad); generally, a transaction; abstractly, activity; by implication, a product (specifically, a poem) or (generally) property
KJV usage: act, art, + bakemeat, business, deed, do(-ing), labor, thing made, ware of making, occupation, thing offered, operation, possession, X well, ((handy-, needle-, net-))work(ing, - manship), wrought.
Pronounce: mah-as-eh'
Origin: from 6213
hair
miqsheh (Hebrew #4748)
something turned (rounded), i.e. a curl (of tresses)
KJV usage: X well (set) hair.
Pronounce: mik-sheh'
Origin: from 7185 in the sense of knotting up round and hard
baldness
qorchah (Hebrew #7144)
(Ezek. 27:31) {kor-khaw'}; from 7139; baldness
KJV usage: bald(-ness), X utterly.
Pronounce: kor-khaw'
Origin: or qorcha
x; and instead of a stomacher
pthiygiyl (Hebrew #6614)
probably a figured mantle for holidays
KJV usage: stomacher.
Pronounce: peth-eeg-eel'
Origin: of uncertain derivation
a girding
machagoreth (Hebrew #4228)
a girdle
KJV usage: girding.
Pronounce: makh-ag-o'-reth
Origin: from 2296
of sackcloth
saq (Hebrew #8242)
properly, a mesh (as allowing a liquid to run through), i.e. coarse loose cloth or sacking (used in mourning and for bagging); hence, a bag (for grain, etc.)
KJV usage: sack(-cloth, -clothes).
Pronounce: sak
Origin: from 8264
; and burning
kiy (Hebrew #3587)
a brand or scar
KJV usage: burning.
Pronounce: kee
Origin: from 3554
instead of beauty
yophiy (Hebrew #3308)
beauty
KJV usage: beauty.
Pronounce: yof-ee'
Origin: from 3302
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instead.
baldness.
a girding.
Isa. 15:3• 3In their streets they are girded with sackcloth; on their roofs, and in their broadways, every one howleth, melted into tears. (Isa. 15:3)
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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.
10In a year and some days shall ye be troubled, ye careless women; for the vintage shall fail, the ingathering shall not come.
11Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones; strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth on your loins!
(Isa. 32:9‑11)
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Job 16:15• 15I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and rolled my horn in the dust. (Job 16:15)
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Jer. 4:8• 8For this, gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl! for the fierce anger of Jehovah is not turned away from us. (Jer. 4:8)
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Jer. 6:26• 26Daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and roll thyself in ashes: make mourning, as for an only son--bitter lamentation; for the spoiler cometh suddenly upon us. (Jer. 6:26)
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Jer. 48:37• 37For every head is bald, and every beard clipped; upon all the hands are cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth. (Jer. 48:37)
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Jer. 49:3• 3Howl, Heshbon! for Ai is laid waste; cry, daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth, lament and run to and fro within the enclosures: for Malcam shall go into captivity, his priests and his princes together. (Jer. 49:3)
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Lam. 2:10• 10The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, they keep silence; they have cast dust upon their heads, they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their head to the ground. (Lam. 2:10)
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Ezek. 27:31• 31And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird themselves with sackcloth; and they shall weep for thee in bitterness of soul with bitter mourning. (Ezek. 27:31)
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Joel 1:8• 8Wail like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth. (Joel 1:8)
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Amos 8:10• 10And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning for an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day. (Amos 8:10)
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Rev. 11:3• 3And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth. (Rev. 11:3)
burning.

J. N. Darby Translation

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And it shall come to pass, instead of perfume there shall be rottenness; and instead of a girdle, a rope; and instead of well-set hair, baldness; and instead of a robe of display, a girding of sackcloth; brand instead of beauty.