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Isaiah 51

Isa. 51:9 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Awake
`uwr (Hebrew #5782)
to wake (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: (a- )wake(-n, up), lift up (self), X master, raise (up), stir up (self).
Pronounce: oor
Origin: a primitive root (rather identical with 5783 through the idea of opening the eyes)
, awake
`uwr (Hebrew #5782)
to wake (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: (a- )wake(-n, up), lift up (self), X master, raise (up), stir up (self).
Pronounce: oor
Origin: a primitive root (rather identical with 5783 through the idea of opening the eyes)
, put on
labash (Hebrew #3847)
a primitive root; properly, wrap around, i.e. (by implication) to put on a garment or clothe (oneself, or another), literally or figuratively
KJV usage: (in) apparel, arm, array (self), clothe (self), come upon, put (on, upon), wear.
Pronounce: law-bash'
Origin: or labesh {law-bashe'}
strength
`oz (Hebrew #5797)
from 5810; strength in various applications (force, security, majesty, praise)
KJV usage: boldness, loud, might, power, strength, strong.
Pronounce: oze
Origin: or (fully) rowz {oze}
w, O arm
zrowa` (Hebrew #2220)
and (feminine) zrowpah {zer-o-aw'}; or zrowah {zer-o-aw'}; from 2232; the arm (as stretched out), or (of animals) the foreleg; figuratively, force
KJV usage: arm, + help, mighty, power, shoulder, strength.
Pronounce: zer-o'-ah
Origin: or (shortened) zroao {zer-o'-ah}
of 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
; awake
`uwr (Hebrew #5782)
to wake (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: (a- )wake(-n, up), lift up (self), X master, raise (up), stir up (self).
Pronounce: oor
Origin: a primitive root (rather identical with 5783 through the idea of opening the eyes)
, as in the ancient
qedem (Hebrew #6924)
from 6923; the front, of place (absolutely, the fore part, relatively the East) or time (antiquity); often used adverbially (before, anciently, eastward)
KJV usage: aforetime, ancient (time), before, east (end, part, side, -ward), eternal, X ever(-lasting), forward, old, past. Compare 6926.
Pronounce: keh'-dem
Origin: or qedmah {kayd'-maw}
days
yowm (Hebrew #3117)
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
KJV usage: age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.
Pronounce: yome
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be hot
, in the generations
dowr (Hebrew #1755)
from 1752; properly, a revolution of time, i.e. an age or generation; also a dwelling
KJV usage: age, X evermore, generation, (n-)ever, posterity.
Pronounce: dore
Origin: or (shortened) dor {dore}
of old
`owlam (Hebrew #5769)
from 5956; properly, concealed, i.e. the vanishing point; generally, time out of mind (past or future), i.e. (practically) eternity; frequentatively, adverbial (especially with prepositional prefix) always
KJV usage: alway(-s), ancient (time), any more, continuance, eternal, (for, (n-))ever(-lasting, -more, of old), lasting, long (time), (of) old (time), perpetual, at any time, (beginning of the) world (+ without end). Compare 5331, 5703.
Pronounce: o-lawm'
Origin: or lolam {o-lawm'}
. Art thou not it that hath cut
chatsab (Hebrew #2672)
a primitive root ; to cut or carve (wood), stone or other material); by implication, to hew, split, square, quarry, engrave
KJV usage: cut, dig, divide, grave, hew (out, -er), made, mason.
Pronounce: khaw-tsab'
Origin: or chatseb {khaw-tsabe'}
Rahab
Rahab (Hebrew #7294)
Rahab (i.e. boaster), an epithet of Egypt
KJV usage: Rahab.
Pronounce: rah'-hab
Origin: the same as 7293
y, and wounded
chalal (Hebrew #2490)
properly, to bore, i.e. (by implication) to wound, to dissolve; figuratively, to profane (a person, place or thing), to break (one's word), to begin (as if by an "opening wedge"); denom. (from 2485) to play (the flute)
KJV usage: begin (X men began), defile, X break, defile, X eat (as common things), X first, X gather the grape thereof, X take inheritance, pipe, player on instruments, pollute, (cast as) profane (self), prostitute, slay (slain), sorrow, stain, wound.
Pronounce: khaw-lal'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 2470)
the dragon
tanniyn (Hebrew #8577)
intensive from the same as 8565; a marine or land monster, i.e. sea-serpent or jackal
KJV usage: dragon, sea-monster, serpent, whale.
Pronounce: tan-neen'
Origin: or tanniym (Ezek. 29:3) {tan-neem'}
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Rev. 11:17• 17saying, We give thee thanks, Lord God Almighty, He who is, and who was, that thou hast taken thy great power and hast reigned. (Rev. 11:17)
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Psa. 89:10• 10Thou hast crushed Rahab as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with the arm of thy strength. (Psa. 89:10)
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Isa. 27:1• 1In that day Jehovah, with his sore and great and strong sword, will visit leviathan the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent; and he will slay the monster that is in the sea. (Isa. 27:1)
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Psa. 74:13‑14• 13*Thou* didst divide the sea by thy strength; thou didst break the heads of the monsters on the waters:
 14*Thou* didst break in pieces the heads of leviathan, thou gavest him to be meat to those that people the desert. (Psa. 74:13‑14)

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Arm,
Dragon,
Generation,
Rahab; Rachab

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Awake.
Isa. 51:17• 17Arouse thyself, arouse thyself, stand up, Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of Jehovah the cup of his fury. Thou hast drunk, hast drained out the goblet-cup of bewilderment: (Isa. 51:17)
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Isa. 27:1• 1In that day Jehovah, with his sore and great and strong sword, will visit leviathan the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent; and he will slay the monster that is in the sea. (Isa. 27:1)
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Psa. 7:6• 6Arise, Jehovah, in thine anger; lift thyself up against the raging of mine oppressors, and awake for me: thou hast commanded judgment. (Psa. 7:6)
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Psa. 44:23• 23Awake, why sleepest thou, Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever. (Psa. 44:23)
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Psa. 59:4• 4They run and prepare themselves without my fault: awake to meet me, and behold. (Psa. 59:4)
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Psa. 78:65• 65Then the Lord awoke as one out of sleep, like a mighty man that shouteth aloud by reason of wine; (Psa. 78:65)
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Hab. 2:19• 19Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake! to the dumb stone, Arise! Shall it teach? Behold it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it. (Hab. 2:19)
put.
Isa. 52:1• 1Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean. (Isa. 52:1)
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Isa. 59:17• 17And he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak. (Isa. 59:17)
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Psa. 21:13• 13Be thou exalted, Jehovah, in thine own strength: we will sing and celebrate thy power. (Psa. 21:13)
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Psa. 74:13‑14• 13*Thou* didst divide the sea by thy strength; thou didst break the heads of the monsters on the waters:
 14*Thou* didst break in pieces the heads of leviathan, thou gavest him to be meat to those that people the desert. (Psa. 74:13‑14)
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Psa. 93:1• 1Jehovah reigneth, he hath clothed himself with majesty: Jehovah hath clothed himself, he hath girded himself with strength; yea, the world is established, it shall not be moved. (Psa. 93:1)
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Rev. 11:17• 17saying, We give thee thanks, Lord God Almighty, He who is, and who was, that thou hast taken thy great power and hast reigned. (Rev. 11:17)
O arm.
Isa. 51:5• 5My righteousness is near, my salvation is gone forth, and mine arms shall judge the peoples: the isles shall wait for me, and in mine arm shall they trust. (Isa. 51:5)
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Isa. 53:1• 1Who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of Jehovah been revealed? (Isa. 53:1)
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Isa. 59:16• 16And he saw that there was no man, and he wondered that there was no intercessor; and his arm brought him salvation, and his righteousness, it sustained him. (Isa. 59:16)
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Isa. 62:8• 8Jehovah hath sworn by his right hand and by the arm of his strength, I will indeed no more give thy corn to be food for thine enemies; and the sons of the alien shall not drink thy new wine, for which thou hast laboured; (Isa. 62:8)
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Luke 1:51• 51He has wrought strength with his arm; he has scattered haughty ones in the thought of their heart. (Luke 1:51)
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John 12:38• 38that the word of the prophet Esaias which he said might be fulfilled, Lord, who has believed our report? and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? (John 12:38)
as in.
Judg. 6:13• 13And Gideon said to him, Ah my Lord, if Jehovah be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where are all his miracles that our fathers told us of, saying, Did not Jehovah bring us up from Egypt? And now Jehovah hath cast us off, and given us into the hand of Midian. (Judg. 6:13)
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Neh. 9:7‑15• 7Thou art the Same, Jehovah Elohim, who didst choose Abram and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham;
 8and foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest the covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites,--to give it to his seed; and thou hast performed thy words, for thou art righteous.
 9And thou sawest the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red Sea;
 10and didst shew signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and upon all his servants, and upon all the people of his land; for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them, and thou didst make thee a name, as it is this day.
 11And thou didst divide the sea before them, and they went through the midst of the sea on dry ground; and their pursuers thou threwest into the depths, as a stone into the mighty waters.
 12And thou leddest them in the day by a pillar of cloud, and in the night by a pillar of fire, to give them light in the way wherein they should go.
 13And thou camest down on mount Sinai, and didst speak with them from the heavens, and gavest them right judgments and true laws, good statutes and commandments.
 14And thou madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and prescribedst for them commandments and statutes and a law, through Moses thy servant.
 15And thou gavest them bread from the heavens for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and didst say to them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them. (Neh. 9:7‑15)
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Psa. 44:1• 1To the chief Musician. Of the sons of Korah. An instruction. O God, with our ears have we heard, our fathers have told us, the work thou wroughtest in their days, in the days of old: (Psa. 44:1)
Art thou.
Job 26:12• 12He stirreth up the sea by his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through Rahab. (Job 26:12)
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Job 26•  (Job 26)
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Psa. 87:4• 4I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon among them that know me; behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia: this man was born there. (Psa. 87:4)
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Psa. 89:10• 10Thou hast crushed Rahab as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with the arm of thy strength. (Psa. 89:10)
the dragon.
Isa. 27:1• 1In that day Jehovah, with his sore and great and strong sword, will visit leviathan the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent; and he will slay the monster that is in the sea. (Isa. 27:1)
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Psa. 74:13‑14• 13*Thou* didst divide the sea by thy strength; thou didst break the heads of the monsters on the waters:
 14*Thou* didst break in pieces the heads of leviathan, thou gavest him to be meat to those that people the desert. (Psa. 74:13‑14)
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Ezek. 29:3• 3speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which saith, My river is mine own, and I made it for myself. (Ezek. 29:3)
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Hab. 3:13• 13Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, For the salvation of thine anointed; Thou didst smite off the head from the house of the wicked, Laying bare the foundation even to the neck. Selah. (Hab. 3:13)
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Rev. 12:9• 9And the great dragon was cast out, the ancient serpent, he who is called Devil and Satan, he who deceives the whole habitable world, he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. (Rev. 12:9)
• Rahab— a name meaning “Arrogance”, given to Egypt in contempt. (“Isaiah 51” by F.B. Hole)
• “Awake, awake, put on strength, O Arm of the Lord”. In prophetic vision John saw Him so doing, in Revelation 19:11-16, when He will be displayed as King of kings and Lord of lords. (“Isaiah 51” by F.B. Hole)
• Rahab— a name meaning “Arrogance”, given to Egypt in contempt. (“Isaiah 51” by F.B. Hole)
• The first call to awake is addressed to the “Arm of the Lord” (verse 9), for all is dependent upon Him. When the hour strikes for Him to awake and put on strength, there will be witnessed the awakening of Jerusalem, as indicated in verse 17, and again in the first verse of Isaiah 52. The awakening that will come to pass will not be merely a political or national one, but will rather involve a deep spiritual work, as is made plain when chapter 52 is reached. (“Isaiah 51:17-53:9” by F.B. Hole)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of Jehovah; awake, as in the days of old, as in the generations of passed ages. Is it not thouf that hath hewn Rahabg in pieces, and pierced the monster?

JND Translation Notes

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"Thou He" = "The Same." see ch. 37.16; Deut. 32.39; Neh. 9.6, etc.
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i.e. Egypt. see ch. 30.7.