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Isaiah 5

Isa. 5:28 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Whose arrows
chets (Hebrew #2671)
properly, a piercer, i.e. an arrow; by implication, a wound; figuratively, (of God) thunder-bolt; (by interchange for 6086) the shaft of a spear
KJV usage: + archer, arrow, dart, shaft, staff, wound.
Pronounce: khayts
Origin: from 2686
are sharp
shanan (Hebrew #8150)
to point (transitive or intransitive); intensively, to pierce; figuratively, to inculcate
KJV usage: prick, sharp(-en), teach diligently, whet.
Pronounce: shaw-nan'
Origin: a primitive root
, and all their bows
qesheth (Hebrew #7198)
from 7185 in the original sense (of 6983) of bending: a bow, for shooting (hence, figuratively, strength) or the iris
KJV usage: X arch(-er), + arrow, bow((-man, -shot)).
Pronounce: keh'-sheth
bent
darak (Hebrew #1869)
to tread; by implication, to walk; also to string a bow (by treading on it in bending)
KJV usage: archer, bend, come, draw, go (over), guide, lead (forth), thresh, tread (down), walk.
Pronounce: daw-rak'
Origin: a primitive root
, their horses’
cuwc (Hebrew #5483)
from an unused root meaning to skip (properly, for joy); a horse (as leaping); also a swallow (from its rapid flight)
KJV usage: crane, horse((-back, -hoof)). Compare 6571.
Pronounce: soos
Origin: or cuc {soos}
hoofs
parcah (Hebrew #6541)
a claw or split hoof
KJV usage: claw, (cloven-)footed, hoof.
Pronounce: par-saw'
Origin: feminine of 6538
shall be counted
chashab (Hebrew #2803)
properly, to plait or interpenetrate, i.e. (literally) to weave or (gen.) to fabricate; figuratively, to plot or contrive (usually in a malicious sense); hence (from the mental effort) to think, regard, value, compute
KJV usage: (make) account (of), conceive, consider, count, cunning (man, work, workman), devise, esteem, find out, forecast, hold, imagine, impute, invent, be like, mean, purpose, reckon(-ing be made), regard, think.
Pronounce: khaw-shab'
Origin: a primitive root
like flint
tsar (Hebrew #6862)
from 6887; narrow; (as a noun) a tight place (usually figuratively, i.e. trouble); also a pebble (as in 6864); (transitive) an opponent (as crowding)
KJV usage: adversary, afflicted(-tion), anguish, close, distress, enemy, flint, foe, narrow, small, sorrow, strait, tribulation, trouble.
Pronounce: tsar
Origin: or tsar {tsawr}
, and their wheels
galgal (Hebrew #1534)
a wheel; by analogy, a whirlwind; also dust (as whirled)
KJV usage: heaven, rolling thing, wheel.
Pronounce: gal-gal'
Origin: by reduplication from 1556
like a whirlwind
cuwphah (Hebrew #5492)
a hurricane
KJV usage: Red Sea, storm, tempest, whirlwind, Red sea.
Pronounce: soo-faw'
Origin: from 5486
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Cross References

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arrows.
Psa. 45:5• 5Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby the people fall under thee. (Psa. 45:5)
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Psa. 120:4• 4Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper. (Psa. 120:4)
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Jer. 5:16• 16Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men. (Jer. 5:16)
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Ezek. 21:9‑11• 9Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the Lord; Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished:
 10It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree.
 11And he hath given it to be furbished, that it may be handled: this sword is sharpened, and it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the slayer. (Ezek. 21:9‑11)
their horses.
Judg. 5:22• 22Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones. (Judg. 5:22)
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Jer. 47:3• 3At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses, at the rushing of his chariots, and at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to their children for feebleness of hands; (Jer. 47:3)
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Mic. 4:13• 13Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the Lord, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth. (Mic. 4:13)
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Nah. 2:3‑4• 3The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken.
 4The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings. (Nah. 2:3‑4)
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Nah. 3:2• 2The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots. (Nah. 3:2)

J. N. Darby Translation

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their arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent; their horses’ hoofs are reckoned as the flint, and their wheels as a whirlwind.