Bible Verse Dictionary
Isaiah 58:3 - Wherefore
Verse | Strongs No. | Hebrew | |
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Wherefore | H4100 | מָה |
properly interrogitive what ? (including {how ?} why ? and when ?); but also exclamations like what ! (including {how !}) or indefinitely what (including {whatever} and even relatively that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjugational sneses |
have we fasted | H6684 | צוּם |
[Verb] to cover over (the {mouth}) that {is} to fast |
say they and thou seest | H7200 | רָאָה |
[Verb] to {see} literally or figuratively (in numerous {applications} direct and {implied} {transitively} intransitively and causatively) |
not | H3808 | לֹא |
[Adverb] a primitive particle; not (the simple or abstract negation); by implication no; often used with other particles |
wherefore | H4100 | מָה |
properly interrogitive what ? (including {how ?} why ? and when ?); but also exclamations like what ! (including {how !}) or indefinitely what (including {whatever} and even relatively that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjugational sneses |
have we afflicted | H6031 | עָנָה |
[Verb] to depress literally or {figuratively} transitively or intransitively (in various applications). (sing is by mistake for H6030.) |
our soul | H5315 | נֶפֶשׁ |
[Noun Feminine] properly a breathing {creature} that {is} animal or (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a {literal} accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental) |
and thou takest no knowledge | H3045 | יָדַע |
[Verb] to know (properly to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of {senses} {figuratively} {literally} euphemistically and inferentially (including {observation} care: recognition; and causatively {instruction} designation: {punishment} etc.) |
Behold | H2005 | הֵן |
[Interjection] lo ! also (as expressing surprise) if |
in the day | H3117 | יוֹם |
[Noun Masculine] a day (as the warm {hours}) whether literally (from sunrise to {sunset} or from one sunset to the {next}) or figuratively (a space of time defined by an associated {term}) (often used adverbially) |
of your fast | H6685 | צוֹם |
[Noun Masculine] a fast |
ye find | H4672 | מָצָא |
[Verb] properly to come forth {to} that {is} appear or exist; transitively to {attain} that {is} find or acquire; figuratively to {occur} meet or be present |
pleasure | H2656 | חֵפֶץ |
[Noun Masculine] pleasure; hence (abstractly) desire; concretely a valuable thing; hence (by extension) a matter (as something in mind) |
and exact | H5065 | נָגַשׂ |
[Verb] to drive (an {animal} a {workman} a {debtor} an army); by implication to {tax} {harass } tyrannize |
all | H3605 | כֹּל |
[Noun Masculine] properly the whole; hence {all} any or every (in the singular {only} but often in a plural sense) |
your labours | H6092 | עָצֵב |
[Noun Masculine] a (hired) workman |
Definitions are taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.