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Isaiah 5

Isa. 5:28 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Whose arrows
chets (Hebrew #2671)
properly, a piercer, i.e. an arrow; by implication, a wound; figuratively, (of God) thunder-bolt; (by interchange for 6086) the shaft of a spear
KJV usage: + archer, arrow, dart, shaft, staff, wound.
Pronounce: khayts
Origin: from 2686
are sharp
shanan (Hebrew #8150)
to point (transitive or intransitive); intensively, to pierce; figuratively, to inculcate
KJV usage: prick, sharp(-en), teach diligently, whet.
Pronounce: shaw-nan'
Origin: a primitive root
, and all their bows
qesheth (Hebrew #7198)
from 7185 in the original sense (of 6983) of bending: a bow, for shooting (hence, figuratively, strength) or the iris
KJV usage: X arch(-er), + arrow, bow((-man, -shot)).
Pronounce: keh'-sheth
bent
darak (Hebrew #1869)
to tread; by implication, to walk; also to string a bow (by treading on it in bending)
KJV usage: archer, bend, come, draw, go (over), guide, lead (forth), thresh, tread (down), walk.
Pronounce: daw-rak'
Origin: a primitive root
, their horses’
cuwc (Hebrew #5483)
from an unused root meaning to skip (properly, for joy); a horse (as leaping); also a swallow (from its rapid flight)
KJV usage: crane, horse((-back, -hoof)). Compare 6571.
Pronounce: soos
Origin: or cuc {soos}
hoofs
parcah (Hebrew #6541)
a claw or split hoof
KJV usage: claw, (cloven-)footed, hoof.
Pronounce: par-saw'
Origin: feminine of 6538
shall be counted
chashab (Hebrew #2803)
properly, to plait or interpenetrate, i.e. (literally) to weave or (gen.) to fabricate; figuratively, to plot or contrive (usually in a malicious sense); hence (from the mental effort) to think, regard, value, compute
KJV usage: (make) account (of), conceive, consider, count, cunning (man, work, workman), devise, esteem, find out, forecast, hold, imagine, impute, invent, be like, mean, purpose, reckon(-ing be made), regard, think.
Pronounce: khaw-shab'
Origin: a primitive root
like flint
tsar (Hebrew #6862)
from 6887; narrow; (as a noun) a tight place (usually figuratively, i.e. trouble); also a pebble (as in 6864); (transitive) an opponent (as crowding)
KJV usage: adversary, afflicted(-tion), anguish, close, distress, enemy, flint, foe, narrow, small, sorrow, strait, tribulation, trouble.
Pronounce: tsar
Origin: or tsar {tsawr}
, and their wheels
galgal (Hebrew #1534)
a wheel; by analogy, a whirlwind; also dust (as whirled)
KJV usage: heaven, rolling thing, wheel.
Pronounce: gal-gal'
Origin: by reduplication from 1556
like a whirlwind
cuwphah (Hebrew #5492)
a hurricane
KJV usage: Red Sea, storm, tempest, whirlwind, Red sea.
Pronounce: soo-faw'
Origin: from 5486
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Cross References

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arrows.
Psa. 45:5• 5Thine arrows are sharp--peoples fall under thee--in the heart of the king's enemies. (Psa. 45:5)
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Psa. 120:4• 4Sharp arrows of a mighty one, with burning coals of broom-wood. (Psa. 120:4)
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Jer. 5:16• 16Their quiver is as an open sepulchre; they are all mighty men. (Jer. 5:16)
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Ezek. 21:9‑11• 9Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith Jehovah: Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished.
 10It is sharpened for sore slaughter, it is furbished that it may glitter. Shall we then make mirth, saying, The sceptre of my son contemneth all wood?
 11And he hath given it to be furbished that it may be handled. The sword,--it is sharpened, and it is furbished to give it into the hand of the slayer. (Ezek. 21:9‑11)
their horses.
Judg. 5:22• 22Then did the horse-hoofs clatter with the coursings, The coursings of their steeds. (Judg. 5:22)
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Jer. 47:3• 3at the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his steeds, at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of his wheels: fathers shall not look back for their children, from feebleness of hands; (Jer. 47:3)
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Mic. 4:13• 13Arise and thresh, daughter of Zion, for I will make thy horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass; and thou shalt beat in pieces many peoples; and I will devote their gain to Jehovah, and their substance to the Lord of the whole earth. (Mic. 4:13)
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Nah. 2:3‑4• 3The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots glitter with the sheen of steel, in the day of his preparation, and the spears are brandished.
 4The chariots rush madly in the streets, they justle one against another in the broad ways: the appearance of them is like torches, they run like lightnings. (Nah. 2:3‑4)
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Nah. 3:2• 2The crack of the whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the prancing horses, and of the bounding chariots! (Nah. 3:2)

J. N. Darby Translation

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their arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent; their horses’ hoofs are reckoned as the flint, and their wheels as a whirlwind.