Isaiah 23:8
King James Version
9 Jun 2026
“Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?”
כָּבַד
were the honored people of
to be heavy, i.e. in a bad sense (burdensome, severe, dull) or in a good sense (numerous, rich, honorable; causatively, to make weighty (in the same two senses)
מִי
who?
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מִי
who? (occasionally, by a peculiar idiom, of things); also (indefinitely) whoever; often used in oblique construction with prefix or suffix
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סָחַר
traders/ its
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סָחַר
to travel round (specifically as a pedlar); intensively, to palpitate
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כְּנַעַן
merchants/ its
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כְּנַעַן
Kenaan, a son a Ham; also the country inhabited by him
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יָעַץ
did he plan
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יָעַץ
to advise; reflexively, to deliberate or resolve
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שַׂר
were princes
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שַׂר
a head person (of any rank or class)
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צֹר
Tyre
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צֹר
Tsor, a place in Palestine
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