Isaiah 21:3
King James Version
9 Jun 2026
“Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.”
כֵּן
properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner, time and relation; often with other particles)
צִיר
pangs
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צִיר
a hinge (as pressed in turning); also a throe (as a phys. or mental pressure); also a herald or erranddoer (as constrained by the principal)
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עַל
there-
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עַל
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
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יָלַד
a woman who gives birth
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יָלַד
Begotten, born — yalad; to bring forth; Psalm 2:7 Today I have begotten You points directly to the resurrection of Christ
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מָלֵא
they are full
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מָלֵא
to fill or (intransitively) be full of, in a wide application (literally and figuratively)
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מֹתֶן
loins/ my
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מֹתֶן
properly, the waist or small of the back; only in plural the loins
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חַלְחָלָה
anguish
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חַלְחָלָה
writhing (in childbirth); by implication, terror
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עָוָה
I am bent over
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עָוָה
to crook, literally or figuratively
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