What Does Isaiah 27:6 Mean?
He will root those who come of Jacob. Israel will sprout and bloom, and fill the face of the world with harvest.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.THE KEY
The world’s abundance begins underground: Israel’s fruit is the visible continuation of Jacob taking root.
THE MEANING
Something in you can be taking root before it is visible as fruit. The verse holds hidden establishment and outward flourishing together: what takes root in Jacob becomes blossom in Israel and reaches across the world’s face as produce. Your unseen growth is not separate from what eventually nourishes others.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A lack of visible fruit does not mean life is absent; the verse places taking root before blossoming.
THE ROOT
יַשְׁרֵשׁ
yashresh
GROWS FROM
שׁרשׁ
sh-r-sh
Root; to put down roots or become established.
The Hebrew verb for taking root is built from the word for root. Jacob’s hidden anchoring and Israel’s visible growth belong to one movement, not separate fortunes.
ALSO GROWS
shoresh: Root; the anchoring source of growth.
שֹׁרֶשׁ
Isaiah 11:10 uses this noun for Jesse’s root, joining hidden lineage with the growth that emerges from it.
yashresh: Takes root; establishes roots.
יַשְׁרֵשׁ
The verb in this verse turns the root into an action: Jacob’s life is being established below the surface.
תְּנוּבָה
tenuvah
GROWS FROM
נוב
nuv
To sprout, yield, or produce.
“harvest” in this verse is tenuvah. The Hebrew word carries the sense of what is yielded or produced. The verse’s ending describes ongoing growth reaching across the world’s face, not fruit as a static object.
ALSO GROWS
yanub: Yields; brings forth.
יָנוּב
Proverbs 10:31 uses this form for what wisdom’s mouth yields, linking fruitfulness with what emerges from within.
yenubun: They bring forth fruit; they yield.
יְנוּבוּן
Psalm 92:14 uses this form for those who continue to bear fruit, echoing the verse’s movement from rooted life to ongoing yield.
THE PATTERN
What takes root becomes visible as flourishing that yields abundance beyond itself.
Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough beside a spring; its branches step upon the wall.They still bear fruit in gray hair; they are fat and green.I am the vine, and you are the branches. The one who remains in me, and I in him, this one bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.THE THREAD
And a shoot will come out of the stump of Jesse, and a sprout from his roots will bear fruit.Isaiah names Jesse’s root as the hidden source from which a branch emerges. Here Jacob takes root, then Israel blossoms and yields fruit: what is concealed below becomes visible growth.
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