KING JAMES VERSION (KJV)
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“And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What shall be the sign that the Lord will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house of the Lord the third day?”
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| KJV Verse | Original Hebrew | Meaning/ Definition This is a simplified translation of the original Hebrew word. Follow the buttons on the right to get more detail. | More Use the buttons below to get details on the Hebrew word and view related Bible verses that use the same root word. |
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| “And Hezekiah” | חִזְקִיָּ֙הוּ֙ | Chizkijah, a king of Judah, also the name of two other Israelites | Hezekiah |
| “said” | וַיֹּ֤אמֶר | To say (used with great latitude) | said |
| “unto” | אֶֽל | Near, with or among; often in general, to | unto |
| “Isaiah,” | יְשַׁעְיָ֔הוּ | Jeshajah, the name of seven Israelites | Isaiah |
| “What” | מָ֣ה | Properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively, that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjunctive senses | What |
| “shall be” | (No Hebrew definition. English implied.) | ||
| “the sign” | א֔וֹת | A signal (literally or figuratively), as a flag, beacon, monument, omen, prodigy, evidence, etc | sign |
| “that” | כִּֽי | (by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed | that |
| “the Lord” | יְהוָ֖ה | (the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jeho-vah, Jewish national name of God | Lord |
| “will heal” | יִרְפָּ֥א | Properly, to mend (by stitching), i.e., (figuratively) to cure | heal |
| “me, and that I shall go up” | וְעָלִ֛יתִי | To ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative | go up |
| “into the house” | בֵּ֥ית | A house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.) | house |
| “of the Lord” | יְהוָֽה׃ | (the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jeho-vah, Jewish national name of God | Lord |
| “the third” | הַשְּׁלִישִׁ֖י | Third; feminine a third (part); by extension, a third (day, year or time); specifically, a third-story cell) | third |
| “day?” | בַּיּ֥וֹם | A day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb) | day |
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6 And I will add unto thy days fifteen years; and I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
7 And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.
8 And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What shall be the sign that the Lord will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house of the Lord the third day?
9 And Isaiah said, This sign shalt thou have of the Lord, that the Lord will do the thing that he hath spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees?
10 And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees.
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