Isaiah 41:7 BSB — MannaFest

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17 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיְחַזֵּ֤ק	vay.cha.Zek	and he encouraged	H2388 →
חָרָשׁ֙	cha.Rash	a craftsman	H2796 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
צֹרֵ֔ף	tzo.Ref	a metalsmith	H6884 →
מַחֲלִ֥יק	ma.cha.Lik	a smoother of	H2505 →
פַּטִּ֖ישׁ	pa.Tish	a hammer	H6360 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
ה֣וֹלֶם	Ho.lem	a striker of	H1986 →
פָּ֑עַם	Pa.'am	an anvil	H6471 →
אֹמֵ֤ר	'o.Mer	saying	H559 →
לַדֶּ֙בֶק֙	la.De.vek	of the soldering	H1694 →
ט֣וֹב	Tov	[is] good	H2896 →
ה֔וּא	Hu'	it	H1931 →
וַיְחַזְּקֵ֥הוּ	vay.cha.ze.Ke.hu	and he strengthened it	H2388 →
בְמַסְמְרִ֖ים	ve.mas.me.Rim	with nails	H4548 →
לֹ֥א	lo'	not	H3808 →
יִמּֽוֹט׃ ס	yi.Mot	it will be shaken	H4131 →

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Judges 18:24
He replied, “You took the gods I had made, and my priest, and went away. What else do I have? How can you say to me, ‘What is the matter with you?’”
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- Habakkuk 2:18–19
  What use is an idol, that a craftsman should carve it—or an image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak.
- Isaiah 44:18–20
  They do not comprehend or discern, for He has shut their eyes so they cannot see and closed their minds so they cannot understand.
- Psalms 115:8
  Those who make them become like them, as do all who trust in them.
- Jeremiah 51:17
  Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are a fraud, and there is no breath in them.
- Revelation 17:2
  The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and those who dwell on the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her immorality.”

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

Isaiah 40:20To one bereft of an offering who chooses wood that will not rot, who seeks a skilled craftsman to set up an idol that will not topple?Isaiah 40:19–20To an idol that a craftsman casts and a metalworker overlays with gold and fits with silver chains?Daniel 3:1–7King Nebuchadnezzar made a golden statue sixty cubits high and six cubits wide, and he set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon.1 Samuel 5:3When the people of Ashdod got up early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen on his face before the ark of the LORD. So they took Dagon and returned him to his place.Isaiah 37:19They have cast their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods, but only wood and stone—the work of human hands.Isaiah 44:13The woodworker extends a measuring line; he marks it out with a stylus; he shapes it with chisels and outlines it with a compass. He fashions it in the likeness of man, like man in all his glory, that it may dwell in a shrine.Revelation 9:20Now the rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the works of their hands. They did not stop worshiping demons and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk.Jeremiah 10:3–5For the customs of the peoples are worthless; they cut down a tree from the forest; it is shaped with a chisel by the hands of a craftsman.Isaiah 44:12–15The blacksmith takes a tool and labors over the coals; he fashions an idol with hammers and forges it with his strong arms. Yet he grows hungry and loses his strength; he fails to drink water and grows faint.Judges 18:24He replied, “You took the gods I had made, and my priest, and went away. What else do I have? How can you say to me, ‘What is the matter with you?’”Jeremiah 10:9Hammered silver is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz—the work of a craftsman from the hands of a goldsmith. Their clothes are blue and purple, all fashioned by skilled workers.Judges 18:17–18And the five men who had gone to spy out the land went inside and took the graven image, the ephod, the household idols, and the molten idol, while the priest stood at the entrance of the gate with the six hundred armed men.Isaiah 46:6–7They pour out their bags of gold and weigh out silver on scales; they hire a goldsmith to fashion it into a god, so they can bow down and worship.

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