King James Version

Isaiah 41:15

Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.

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הִנֵּ֣הhinehloהִנֵּהparticle, demonstrative — “lo”H2009lo!behold, lo, see.שַׂמְתִּ֗יךְsamtikheputשׂוּםverb, qal, perfect, 1st person, common, singular, suffix, pronominal, 2nd person, feminine, singular — “put”, a completed actionH7760to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)[idiom] any wise, appoint, bring, call (a name), care, cast in, change, charge, commit, consider, convey, determine, [phrase] disguise, dispose, do, get, give, heap up, hold, impute, lay (down, up), leave, look, make (out), mark, [phrase]…לְמוֹרַג֙lemoragto threshing instrumentמוֹרַגpreposition, noun, common, masculine, singular, construct — “to threshing instrument”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH4173a threshing sledgethreshing instrument.חָר֣וּץcharutsgoldחֲרוּץnoun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “gold”, the ordinary formH2742properly, incised or (active) incisive; hence (as noun masculine or feminine) a trench (as dug), gold (as mined), a threshing-sledge (having sharp teeth); (figuratively) determination; also eagerdecision, diligent, (fine) gold, pointed things, sharp, threshing instrument, wall.חָדָ֔שׁchadashnew thingחָדָשׁadjective, adjective, masculine, singular, absolute — “new thing”, the ordinary formH2319newfresh, new thing.בַּ֖עַלbaalhusbandבַּעַלnoun, common, masculine, singular, construct — “husband”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH1167a master; hence, a husband, or (figuratively) owner (often used with another noun in modifications of this latter sense)[phrase] archer, [phrase] babbler, [phrase] bird, captain, chief man, [phrase] confederate, [phrase] have to do, [phrase] dreamer, those to whom it is due, [phrase] furious, those that are given to it, great, [phrase] hairy, he that hath i…פִּֽיפִיּ֑וֹתpifiottoothפִּיפִיָּהnoun, common, both genders, plural, absolute — “tooth”, the ordinary formH6374an edge or toothtooth, [idiom] two-edged.תָּד֤וּשׁtadushthreshדּוּשׁverb, qal, imperfect, 2nd person, masculine, singular — “thresh”, an unfinished actionH1758to trample or threshbreak, tear, thresh, tread out (down), at grass (Jeremiah 50:11, by mistake for H1877 (דֶּשֶׁא)).הָרִים֙harimhillהַרnoun, common, masculine, plural, absolute — “hill”, the ordinary formH2022a mountain or range of hills (sometimes used figuratively)hill (country), mount(-ain), [idiom] promotion.וְתָדֹ֔קvetadoqand beat in piecesדָּקַקconjunction, verb, qal, imperfect, 2nd person, masculine, singular — “and beat in pieces”, an unfinished actionH1854to crush (or intransitively) crumblebeat in pieces (small), bruise, make dust, (into) [idiom] powder, (be, very) small, stamp (small).וּגְבָע֖וֹתugevaotand hillגִּבְעָהconjunction, noun, common, feminine, plural, absolute — “and hill”, the ordinary formH1389a hillockhill, little hill.כַּמֹּ֥ץkamotsas chaffמֹץpreposition, with the article, noun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “as chaff”, the ordinary formH4671chaff (as pressed out, i.e. winnowed or (rather) threshed loose)chaff.תָּשִֽׂיםtasimputשׂוּםverb, qal, imperfect, 2nd person, masculine, singular — “put”, an unfinished actionH7760to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)[idiom] any wise, appoint, bring, call (a name), care, cast in, change, charge, commit, consider, convey, determine, [phrase] disguise, dispose, do, get, give, heap up, hold, impute, lay (down, up), leave, look, make (out), mark, [phrase]…

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

Behold, I make thee a new threshing-sledge having sharp teeth; thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.

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American Standard Version (1901)

Behold, I have made thee to be a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth; thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.

Young’s Literal Translation

Lo, I have set thee for a new sharp threshing instrument, Possessing teeth, thou threshest mountains, And beatest small, and hills as chaff thou makest.

World English Bible

Behold, I have made you into a new sharp threshing instrument with teeth. You will thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and will make the hills like chaff.

Darby Translation

Behold, I have made of thee a new sharp threshing instrument having double teeth: thou shalt thresh and beat small the mountains, and shalt make the hills as chaff;

Douay-Rheims

I have made thee as a new thrashing wain, with teeth like a saw: thou shall thrash the mountains, and break them in pieces: and shalt make the hills as chaff.

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

Behold, I make thee a new threshing-sledge having sharp teeth; thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

Behold, I have made thee as new saw-shaped threshing wheels of a waggon; and thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat the hills to powder, and make them as chaff:

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

Ἰδοὺ ἐποίησά σε ὡς τροχοὺς ἁμάξης ἀλοῶντας καινοὺς πριστηροειδεῖς, καὶ ἀλοήσεις ὄρη, καὶ λεπτυνεῖς βουνοὺς, καὶ ὡς χνοῦν θήσεις,