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Isaiah 27:11

“When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

יָבֵשׁyâbêsh · yaw-bashe'
H3001 · Hebrew
Definition
to be ashamed, confused or disappointed; also (as failing) to dry up (as water) or wither (as herbage)
Derivation
a primitive root;
KJV renderings
be ashamed, clean, be confounded, (make) dry (up), (do) shame(-fully), [idiom] utterly, wither (away).
Grammar
  • בִּ — preposition
  • יבֹ֤שׁ — verb Qal, infinitive construct
Code HR/Vqc
Usage
Occurs 73 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 8:7Genesis 8:14Joshua 2:10Joshua 4:23Joshua 4:23

Theological interpretation (AI)

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Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.