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Isaiah 8

Isa. 8:1 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
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
unto me, Take
laqach (Hebrew #3947)
to take (in the widest variety of applications)
KJV usage: accept, bring, buy, carry away, drawn, fetch, get, infold, X many, mingle, place, receive(-ing), reserve, seize, send for, take (away, -ing, up), use, win.
Pronounce: law-kakh'
Origin: a primitive root
thee a great
gadowl (Hebrew #1419)
from 1431; great (in any sense); hence, older; also insolent
KJV usage: + aloud, elder(-est), + exceeding(-ly), + far, (man of) great (man, matter, thing,-er,-ness), high, long, loud, mighty, more, much, noble, proud thing, X sore, (X ) very.
Pronounce: gaw-dole'
Origin: or (shortened) gadol {gaw-dole'}
roll
gillayown (Hebrew #1549)
from 1540; a tablet for writing (as bare); by analogy, a mirror (as a plate)
KJV usage: glass, roll.
Pronounce: ghil-law-yone'
Origin: or gilyown {ghil-yone'}
, and write
kathab (Hebrew #3789)
to grave, by implication, to write (describe, inscribe, prescribe, subscribe)
KJV usage: describe, record, prescribe, subscribe, write(-ing, -ten).
Pronounce: kaw-thab'
Origin: a primitive root
in it with a man’s
'enowsh (Hebrew #582)
properly, a mortal (and thus differing from the more dignified 120); hence, a man in general (singly or collectively)
KJV usage: another, X (blood-)thirsty, certain, chap(-man); divers, fellow, X in the flower of their age, husband, (certain, mortal) man, people, person, servant, some ( X of them), + stranger, those, + their trade. It is often unexpressed in the English versions, especially when used in apposition with another word . Compare 376.
Pronounce: en-oshe'
Origin: from 605
pen
cheret (Hebrew #2747)
a chisel or graver; also a style for writing
KJV usage: graving tool, pen.
Pronounce: kheh'-ret
Origin: from a primitive root meaning to engrave
concerning μMaher-shalal-hash-baz
Maher (Hebrew #4122)
hasting (is he (the enemy) to the) booty, swift (to the) prey; Maher-Shalal-Chash-Baz; the symbolical name of the son of Isaiah
KJV usage: Maher-sha-lal-bash-baz.
Pronounce: Shalal
Origin: from 4118 and 7998 and 2363 and 957
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in making speed to the spoil, he hasteneth the prey, or, make speed, etc.

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Maher-shalal-hash-baz,
Pen,
Roll

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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1-4:  In Maher-shalal-hash-baz, he prophesies that Syria and Israel shall be subdued by Assyria.
5-8:  Judah likewise for their infidelity.
9-10:  God's judgments shall be irresistible.
11-18:  Comfort shall be to them that fear God.
19-22:  Great afflictions to idolaters.
Take thee.
Jer. 36:2,28,32• 2Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day.
 28Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah hath burned.
 32Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah; who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire: and there were added besides unto them many like words. (Jer. 36:2,28,32)
write.
Isa. 30:8• 8Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever: (Isa. 30:8)
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Job 19:23‑24• 23Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
 24That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever! (Job 19:23‑24)
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Hab. 2:2‑3• 2And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.
 3For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry. (Hab. 2:2‑3)
a man's pen.
Rev. 13:18• 18Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. (Rev. 13:18)
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Rev. 21:17• 17And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel. (Rev. 21:17)
Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
Heb. in making speed to the spoil, hehasteneth the prey.
Or, Make speed, etc.
hasten, etc.
• A second child of Isaiah is mentioned in chapter 8. His long name was significant of the approaching conquest by Assyria of the two powers that were at that moment threatening Judah. (“Isaiah 8” by F.B. Hole)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And Jehovah said to me, Take thee a great tablet, and write thereon with a man’s style, concerning Maher-shalal-hash-bazg.

JND Translation Notes

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Meaning, "Swift for spoil, hasty for prey."