Isaiah 60:8New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— “Who are these who fly like a cloud And like the doves to their lattices?
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— Who [are] these [that] fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— Who [are] these [that] fly as a cloud, and as doves to their windows?
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— Who are these that come flying as a cloud, and as doves to their dove-cotes?
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— Who are these, that, As a cloud, do fly? and, As doves to their cotes?
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— Who [are] these—as a thick cloud they fly, And as doves unto their windows?
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— Who are these, that fly as clouds, and as doves to their windows?
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— Who are these that flee like a cloude, and as the doues to their windowes?
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— Who [are] these that flie as a cloude, and as the doues to their windowes?
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— Who are these that fly like clouds and like the doves to their windows?
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— Who are these [that] fly as clouds, and as doves with young ones to me?
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— Who [are] these [that] fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows? |
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.
[ are] these
x428 (0428) Complementאֵלֶּה'el-leh{ale'-leh}
Prolonged from H0411; these or those.
[ that] fly
5774 {5774} Primeעוּף`uwph{oof}
A primitive root; to cover (with wings or obscurity); hence (as denominative from H5775) to fly; also (by implication of dimness) to faint (from the darkness of swooning).
z8799 <8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Imperfect (See H8811) Count - 19885
as a cloud,
5645 {5645} Primeעָב`ab{awb}
Masculine and feminine; from H5743; properly an envelope, that is, darkness (or density, 2 Chronicles 4:17); specifically a (scud) cloud; also a copse.
and as the doves
3123 {3123} Primeיוֹנָהyownah{yo-naw'}
Probably from the same as H3196; a dove (apparently from the warmth of their mating).
to
x413 (0413) Complementאֵל'el{ale}
(Used only in the shortened constructive form (the second form)); a primitive particle, properly denoting motion towards, but occasionally used of a quiescent position, that is, near, with or among; often in general, to.
their windows?
699 {0699} Primeאֲרֻבָּה'arubbah{ar-oob-baw'}
Feminine participle passive of H0693 (as if for lurking); a lattice; (by implication) a window, dove cot (because of the pigeon holes), chimney (with its apertures for smoke), sluice (with openings for water). |
Isaiah 60:8
_ _ The prophet, seeing in vision new hosts approaching quickly like a cloud of doves, asks who they are. |
Isaiah 60:8
A cloud — These metaphors import the number as well as speed, of those that should be begotten by the apostles doctrine. |
Isaiah 60:8
Who [are] these (i) [that] fly as a cloud, and as doves to their windows?
(i) Showing what great number will come to the Church, and with what great diligence and zeal. |
- fly:
Isaiah 60:4 Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at [thy] side.
Isaiah 45:22 Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I [am] God, and [there is] none else.
Luke 13:29 And they shall come from the east, and [from] the west, and from the north, and [from] the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.
Revelation 7:9 After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;
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- a cloud:
Hebrews 12:1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset [us], and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
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- as the:
Genesis 8:8-11 Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; ... And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth [was] an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
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