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Isaiah 17:6

Yet gleanings will remain, like an olive tree that has been beaten—two or three berries atop the tree, four or five on its fruitful branches,” declares the LORD, the God of Israel.

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ASV

Yet there shall be left therein gleanings, as the shaking of an olive-tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost branches of a fruitful tree, saith Jehovah, the God of Israel.

KJV

Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the Lord God of Israel.

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18 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וְנִשְׁאַר־ve.nish.'ar-and it will be leftH7604 →
בּ֤וֹboin it
עֽוֹלֵלֹת֙o.le.LotgleaningsH5955 →
כְּנֹ֣קֶףke.No.keflike [the] beating ofH5363 →
זַ֔יִתZa.yitan olive treeH2132 →
שְׁנַ֧יִםshe.Na.yimtwoH8147 →
שְׁלֹשָׁ֛הshe.lo.ShahthreeH7969 →
גַּרְגְּרִ֖יםgar.ge.RimolivesH1620 →
בְּרֹ֣אשׁbe.Roshat [the] top ofH7218 →
אָמִ֑יר'a.Mir[the] tree-topH534 →
אַרְבָּעָ֣ה'ar.ba.'AhfourH702 →
חֲמִשָּׁ֗הcha.mi.ShahfiveH2568 →
בִּסְעִפֶ֙יהָ֙bis.'i.Fei.haon branches itsH5585 →
פֹּֽרִיָּ֔הpo.ri.Yahfruit-bearingH6509 →
נְאֻם־ne.'um-[the] utterance ofH5002 →
יְהוָ֖הYah.wehYahwehH3068 →
אֱלֹהֵ֥י'e.lo.Hei[the] God ofH430 →
יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ סYis.ra.'ElIsraelH3478 →

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Isaiah 24:13So will it be on the earth and among the nations, like a harvested olive tree, like a gleaning after a grape harvest.Deuteronomy 4:27Then the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the LORD will drive you.Jeremiah 3:14“Return, O faithless children,” declares the LORD, “for I am your master, and I will take you—one from a city and two from a family—and bring you to Zion.Obadiah 1:5“If thieves came to you, if robbers by night—oh, how you will be ruined—would they not steal only what they wanted? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings?Romans 11:4–6And what was the divine reply to him? “I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”Romans 9:27Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the Israelites is like the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved.Judges 8:2But Gideon answered them, “Now what have I accomplished compared to you? Are not the gleanings of Ephraim better than the grape harvest of Abiezer?Leviticus 19:10You must not strip your vineyard bare or gather its fallen grapes. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the LORD your God.Isaiah 10:22Though your people, O Israel, be like the sand of the sea, only a remnant will return. Destruction has been decreed, overflowing with righteousness.Romans 11:26And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: “The Deliverer will come from Zion; He will remove godlessness from Jacob.Micah 7:1Woe is me! For I am like one gathering summer fruit at the gleaning of the vineyard; there is no cluster to eat, no early fig that I crave.Ezekiel 36:8–15But you, O mountains of Israel, will produce branches and bear fruit for My people Israel, for they will soon come home.Isaiah 27:12In that day the LORD will thresh from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt, and you, O Israelites, will be gathered one by one.Ezekiel 37:19–25you are to tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel associated with him, and I will put them together with the stick of Judah. I will make them into a single stick, and they will become one in My hand.’1 Kings 19:18Nevertheless, I have reserved seven thousand in Israel—all whose knees have not bowed to Baal and whose mouths have not kissed him.”Ezekiel 39:29And I will no longer hide My face from them, for I will pour out My Spirit on the house of Israel, declares the Lord GOD.”Isaiah 1:9Unless the LORD of Hosts had left us a few survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.Jeremiah 49:9If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings? Were thieves to come in the night, would they not steal only what they wanted?

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The Prophet Isaiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Isaiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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