What Does Isaiah 10:32 Mean in the King James?
As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The verb behind “shake” also names the waving of an offering, so the raised hand reveals its purpose before it ever strikes.
THE MEANING
The hand is aimed against the hill before a blow lands: the threat is already present in the gesture. Its target is Jerusalem, whose name carries wholeness, so threatened wholeness stands directly before the reader.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that a threat is unreal until it becomes a blow; here, the raised hand is already an act of menace.
THE ROOT
יְנֹפֵף
yenofef
GROWS FROM
נוף
n-w-p
To wave, move back and forth, or brandish.
“shake” in this verse is yenofef. This root holds the motion of waving or brandishing; it also gives the word for a wave offering. In this verse the hand’s direction is hostile, while Isaiah 11:15 uses the same root for a hand that clears a crossing: the motion’s meaning comes from what it is aimed toward.
ALSO GROWS
tenufah: Wave offering
תְּנוּפָה
The same root names an offering lifted in a wave; here, the hand’s movement instead directs menace toward the hill.
henif: He waved or lifted
הֵנִיף
Isaiah 11:15 uses this form for a hand waved over the river, where the gesture opens a crossing.
יְרוּשָׁלַיִם
Yerushalayim
GROWS FROM
שלם
sh-l-m
Wholeness, completeness.
“Jerusalem” in this verse is Yerushalayim. The name carries שָׁלוֹם (shalom, wholeness) with a dual ending. The raised hand is aimed toward a place whose name holds wholeness, making the threat an assault on that wholeness.
ALSO GROWS
shalom: Wholeness
שָׁלוֹם
This is the wholeness carried in Jerusalem’s name and placed under threat by the raised hand.
shalem: Whole, complete
שָׁלֵם
The root’s sense of being whole sharpens what the gesture is aimed against.
THE PATTERN
A raised hand’s direction makes its action legible: it can threaten, petition, or open a passage.
And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod.Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.THE THREAD
And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod.Isaiah 10:32 uses יְנֹפֵף (yenofef, he waves or brandishes) for the hand aimed at Zion; Isaiah 11:15 uses the same root for the LORD’s hand over the river. Here the gesture threatens the hill; there it clears a crossing, and the shared root holds both actions together.
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