Isaiah 23:8New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— Who has planned this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, Whose merchants were princes, whose traders were the honored of the earth?
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning [city], whose merchants [are] princes, whose traffickers [are] the honourable of the earth?
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— Who hath purposed this against Tyre, the crowning [city], whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— Who hath purposed this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honorable of the earth?
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning [city], whose merchants [are] princes, whose traders [are] the honorable of the earth?
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— Who hath purposed this against Tyre, the distributor of crowns, whose merchants were princes, whose dealers were the honourable of the earth?
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— Who, hath purposed this, against Tyre, The bestower of crowns,—Whose merchants are princes, Her traders, the honourable of the earth?
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— Who hath counselled this against Tyre, The crowning one, whose traders [are] princes, Her merchants the honoured of earth?'
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, that was formerly crowned, whose merchants were princes, and her traders the nobles of the earth?
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— Who hath decreed this against Tyrus (that crowneth men) whose marchantes are princes? whose chapmen are the nobles of the worlde?
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— Who hath taken this counsell against Tyre the crowning [citie], whose merchants are princes, whose traffiquers are the honourable of the earth?
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— Who has taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the honorable of the earth?
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— Who has devised this counsel against Tyre? Is she inferior? or has she no strength? her merchants were the glorious princes of the earth.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— Who hath taken this counsel against Tzor, the crowning [city], whose merchants [are] princes, whose traffickers [are] the honourable of the earth? |
Who
x4310 (4310) Complementמִיmiy{me}
An interrogitive pronoun of persons, as H4100 is of things, who? (occasionally, by a peculiar idiom, of things); also (indefinitely) whoever; often used in oblique construction with prefix or suffix.
hath taken this counsel
3289 {3289} Primeיָעַץya`ats{yaw-ats'}
A primitive root; to advise; reflexively to deliberate or resolve.
z8804 <8804> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Perfect (See H8816) Count - 12562
x2063 (2063) Complementזֹאתzo'th{zothe'}
Irregular feminine of H2089; this (often used adverbially).
against
x5921 (5921) Complementעַל`al{al}
Properly the same as H5920 used as a preposition (in the singular or plural, often with prefix, or as conjugation with a particle following); above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications.
Xôr
צוֹר,
6865 {6865} PrimeצֹרTsor{tsore}
The same as H6864; a rock; Tsor, a place in Palestine.
the crowning
5849 {5849} Primeעָטַר`atar{aw-tar'}
A primitive root; to encircle (for attack or protection); especially to crown (literally or figuratively).
z8688 <8688> Grammar
Stem - Hiphil (See H8818) Mood - Participle (See H8813) Count - 857
[ city], whose
x834 (0834) Complementאֲשֶׁר'asher{ash-er'}
A primitive relative pronoun (of every gender and number); who, which, what, that; also (as adverb and conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.
merchants
5503 {5503} Primeסָחַרcachar{saw-khar'}
A primitive root; to travel round (specifically as a pedlar); intensively to palpitate.
z8802 <8802> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Participle Active (See H8814) Count - 5386
[ are] princes,
8269 {8269} Primeשַׂרsar{sar}
From H8323; a head person (of any rank or class).
whose traffickers
y3667 [3667] StandardכְּנַעַןK@na`an{ken-ah'-an}
From H3665; humiliated; Kenaan, a son of Ham; also the country inhabited by him.
x3669 (3669) ComplementכְּנַעֲנִיK@na`aniy{ken-ah-an-ee'}
Patrial from H3667; a Kenaanite or inhabitant of Kenaan; by implication a pedlar (the Cananites standing for their neighbors the Ishmaelites, who conducted mercantile caravans).
[ are] the honourable
3513 {3513} Primeכָּבַדkabad{kaw-bad'}
A primitive root; to be heavy, that is, in a bad sense ( burdensome, severe, dull) or in a good sense ( numerous, rich, honorable); causatively to make weighty (in the same two senses).
z8737 <8737> Grammar
Stem - Niphal (See H8833) Mood - Participle (See H8813) Count - 793
of the earth?
776 {0776} Primeאֶרֶץ'erets{eh'-rets}
From an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth (at large, or partitively a land). |
Isaiah 23:8
_ _ Who — answered in Isaiah 23:9, “The Lord of hosts.”
_ _ crowning — crown-giving; that is, the city from which dependent kingdoms had arisen, as Tartessus in Spain, Citium in Cyprus, and Carthage in Africa (Ezekiel 27:33).
_ _ traffickers — literally, “Canaanites,” who were famed for commerce (compare Hosea 12:7, Margin). |
Isaiah 23:8
Who — This is the word of God, and not of man. The crowning city — Which was a royal city, and carried away the crown from all other cities. Princes — Equal to princes for wealth, and power, and reputation. |
Isaiah 23:8
Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the (m) crowning [city], whose merchants [are] princes, whose traders [are] the honourable of the earth?
(m) Who makes her merchants like princes. |
- Who hath:
Deuteronomy 29:24-28 Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what [meaneth] the heat of this great anger? ... And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as [it is] this day.
Jeremiah 50:44-45 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan unto the habitation of the strong: but I will make them suddenly run away from her: and who [is] a chosen [man, that] I may appoint over her? for who [is] like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who [is] that shepherd that will stand before me? ... Therefore hear ye the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make [their] habitation desolate with them.
Revelation 18:8 Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong [is] the Lord God who judgeth her.
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- the crowning:
Ezekiel 28:2-6 Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart [is] lifted up, and thou hast said, I [am] a God, I sit [in] the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou [art] a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God: ... Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God;
Ezekiel 28:12-18 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. ... Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.
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- merchants:
Isaiah 10:8 For he saith, [Are] not my princes altogether kings?
Isaiah 36:9 How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
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