Original Language Studio
Isaiah 29:16
“Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter’s clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H2017 · Hebrew
- Definition
- an upset, i.e. (abstract) perversity
- Derivation
- from H2015 (הָפַךְ);
- KJV renderings
- turning of things upside down.
- Grammar
- הַ֨פְכְּ — common noun, masculine, singular, construct
- כֶ֔ם — suffix (pronominal), 2nd person, masculine, plural
- Usage
- Occurs 1 times in the Hebrew Bible.
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read הֹפֶךְ here.
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.