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Isaiah 40

Isa. 40:6 KJV (With Strong’s)

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The voice
qowl (Hebrew #6963)
from an unused root meaning to call aloud; a voice or sound
KJV usage: + aloud, bleating, crackling, cry (+ out), fame, lightness, lowing, noise, + hold peace, (pro-)claim, proclamation, + sing, sound, + spark, thunder(-ing), voice, + yell.
Pronounce: kole
Origin: or qol {kole}
said
'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
, Cry
qara' (Hebrew #7121)
to call out to (i.e. properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications)
KJV usage: bewray (self), that are bidden, call (for, forth, self, upon), cry (unto), (be) famous, guest, invite, mention, (give) name, preach, (make) proclaim(- ation), pronounce, publish, read, renowned, say.
Pronounce: kaw-raw'
Origin: a primitive root (rather identical with 7122 through the idea of accosting a person met)
. And he said
'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
, What shall I cry
qara' (Hebrew #7121)
to call out to (i.e. properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications)
KJV usage: bewray (self), that are bidden, call (for, forth, self, upon), cry (unto), (be) famous, guest, invite, mention, (give) name, preach, (make) proclaim(- ation), pronounce, publish, read, renowned, say.
Pronounce: kaw-raw'
Origin: a primitive root (rather identical with 7122 through the idea of accosting a person met)
? All flesh
basar (Hebrew #1320)
flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphem.) the pudenda of a man
KJV usage: body, (fat, lean) flesh(-ed), kin, (man-)kind, + nakedness, self, skin.
Pronounce: baw-sawr'
Origin: from 1319
z is grass
chatsiyr (Hebrew #2682)
grass; also a leek (collectively)
KJV usage: grass, hay, herb, leek.
Pronounce: khaw-tseer'
Origin: perhaps originally the same as 2681, from the greenness of a courtyard
, and all the goodliness
checed (Hebrew #2617)
kindness; by implication (towards God) piety: rarely (by opposition) reproof, or (subject.) beauty
KJV usage: favour, good deed(-liness, -ness), kindly, (loving-)kindness, merciful (kindness), mercy, pity, reproach, wicked thing.
Pronounce: kheh'-sed
Origin: from 2616
thereof is as the flower
tsiyts (Hebrew #6731)
from 6692; properly, glistening, i.e. a burnished plate; also a flower (as bright-colored); a wing (as gleaming in the air)
KJV usage: blossom, flower, plate, wing.
Pronounce: tseets
Origin: or tsits {tseets}
of the field
sadeh (Hebrew #7704)
from an unused root meaning to spread out; a field (as flat)
KJV usage: country, field, ground, land, soil, X wild.
Pronounce: saw-deh'
Origin: or saday {saw-dah'-ee}
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Psa. 103:15• 15Man! his days [are] like grass;{HR}As a flower of the field, so doth he flourish. (Psa. 103:15)
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James 1:10‑11• 10and the rich in his humiliation, because as flower of grass, he will pass away.
 11For the sun arose with its scorching, and withered the grass, and its flower fell away, and the comeliness of its look perished: thus also will the rich one fade in his goings. (James 1:10‑11)

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Ministry on This Verse

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Cry.
Isa. 40:3• 3The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of Jehovah, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. (Isa. 40:3)
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Isa. 12:6• 6Cry out and shout, O inhabitress of Zion;{HR}For great in the midst of thee [is] the Holy One of Israel. (Isa. 12:6)
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Isa. 58:1• 1Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and declare unto my people their transgression, and to the house of Jacob their sins. (Isa. 58:1)
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Isa. 61:1‑2• 1The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah [is] upon me, because Jehovah hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek. He hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and opening of the prison to the bound;
 2to proclaim the acceptable year of Jehovah, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; (Isa. 61:1‑2)
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Jer. 2:2• 2{i}Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith Jehovah: I remember for thee the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.{/i} (Jer. 2:2)
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Jer. 31:6• 6For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto Jehovah our God. (Jer. 31:6)
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Hos. 5:8• 8Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud at Beth-aven after thee, O Benjamin. (Hos. 5:8)
All flesh.
Isa. 37:27• 27And their inhabitants [were] powerless, they were dismayed and put to shame; they were [as] the grass of the field, the green herb, the grass on the housetops, and [corn] blighted before it be grown up. (Isa. 37:27)
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Job 14:2• 2Cometh forth as a flower, and is cut down,{HR}And he fleeth as a shadow, and abideth not, (Job 14:2)
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Psa. 90:5‑6• 5Thou sweepest them away— asleep are they;{HR}In the morning as grass changeth;
 6In the morning it flourisheth and changeth;{HR}At the evening it is mown and withereth. (Psa. 90:5‑6)
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Psa. 92:7• 7When wicked [men] spring up as grass{HR}And all the workers of iniquity flourish,{HR}[It is] for them to be destroyed forever. (Psa. 92:7)
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Psa. 102:11• 11My days [are] as a shadow stretched out,{HR}And for me, I am withered as grass. (Psa. 102:11)
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Psa. 103:15‑16• 15Man! his days [are] like grass;{HR}As a flower of the field, so doth he flourish.
 16For a breath passeth over him, and he is not,{HR}And the place thereof shall know him no more. (Psa. 103:15‑16)
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James 1:10‑11• 10and the rich in his humiliation, because as flower of grass, he will pass away.
 11For the sun arose with its scorching, and withered the grass, and its flower fell away, and the comeliness of its look perished: thus also will the rich one fade in his goings. (James 1:10‑11)
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1 Peter 1:24• 24Because all flesh [is] as grass, and all its glory as a flower of grass. The grass withered and the flower fell away, (1 Peter 1:24)
• {v.6-8} Not merely Gentile flesh, or depraved flesh, but “all flesh” is as withered and worthless grass. The Apostle Peter quotes these words at the end of the first chapter of his first Epistle, but in contrast therewith he dwells upon the word of our God which stands forever. (“Isaiah 40” by F.B. Hole)

J. N. Darby Translation

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A voice saith, Cry. And he saith, What shall I cry?—All flesh is grass, and all the comeliness thereof as the flower of the field.

W. Kelly Translation

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A voice saith, Cry. And he saith, What shall I cry? —All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof [is] as the flower of the field.