Isaiah 44:4
And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses.
a. NLT: They will thrive like
watered grass, like willows on a riverbank.
b. NIV: They will spring up like
grass in a meadow, like poplar trees by flowing streams.
c. Amplified Bible: And they shall
spring up among the grass like willows or poplars by the
watercourses.
d. Septuagint: and they shall
spring up as grass between brooks, and as willows on [the banks of] running
water.
e. Stone Edition Torah/Writings/Prophets:
they will flourish among the grass like willows by streams of water.
1. “And they shall spring up as among the grass…”
a. spring up [6779 * tsamach] [Strong:
a primitive root; to sprout (transitive or intransitive, literal or
figurative):--bear, bring forth, (cause to, make to) bud (forth), (cause to,
make to) grow (again, up), (cause to) spring (forth, up).]
b. among [996 * beyn] [Strong: (sometimes
in the plural masculine or feminine); properly, the constructive form of an
otherwise unused noun from 995; a distinction; but used only as a prep,
between (repeated before each noun, often with other particles); also as a
conjunction, either...or:--among, asunder, at, between (-twixt...and), + from
(the widest), X in, out of, whether (it be...or), within.]
c. grass [2682 * chatsiyr] [Strong:
perhaps originally the same as 2681, from the greenness of a courtyard;
grass; also a leek (collectively):--grass, hay, herb, leek.
d. I don’t believe this is limited
to physical growth. As the next verse, Isaiah 44:5 shows it is obviously
referring to persons, particularly the “offspring” of believers (Isaiah 44:3).
2. “…as willows by the water courses.”
a. willows [6155 * ‘arab] [Strong:
from 6148; a willow (from the use of osiers as wattles):--willow.]
b. water [4325 * mayim] [Strong: dual
of a primitive noun (but used in a singular sense); water; figuratively, juice;
by euphemism, urine, semen:--+ piss, wasting, water(-ing, (-course, -flood,
-spring)).]
c. courses [2988 * yabal] [Strong:
from 2986; a stream:--(water-)course, stream.]
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