Isaiah 3:17

King James Version:

(The Lord speaking is red text)

Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts.

Complete Jewish Bible:

Adonai will strike the crown of the heads of Tziyon's women with sores, and ADONAI will expose their private parts."

Berean Standard Bible:

the Lord will bring sores on the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will make their foreheads bare.”

American Standard Version:

therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and Jehovah will lay bare their secret parts.

KJV with Strong’s Numbers:

Therefore the Lord{H136} will smite with a scab{H5596} the crown of the head{H6936} of the daughters{H1323} of Zion{H6726}, and the LORD{H3068} will discover{H6168} their secret parts{H6596}.

Cross-References (KJV):

Jeremiah 13:22

  • ¶ And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered, [and] thy heels made bare.

Leviticus 13:43

  • Then the priest shall look upon it: and, behold, [if] the rising of the sore [be] white reddish in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, as the leprosy appeareth in the skin of the flesh;

Leviticus 13:44

  • He is a leprous man, he [is] unclean: the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague [is] in his head.

Isaiah 20:4

  • So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with [their] buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

Micah 1:11

  • Pass ye away, thou inhabitant of Saphir, having thy shame naked: the inhabitant of Zaanan came not forth in the mourning of Bethezel; he shall receive of you his standing.

Revelation 16:2

  • And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and [upon] them which worshipped his image.

Leviticus 13:29

  • If a man or woman have a plague upon the head or the beard;

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Commentary for Isaiah 3:17

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Strong's Numbers and Definitions:

Note: H = Hebrew (OT), G = Greek (NT)

  1. Strong's Number: H136
    There are 910 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: אֲדֹנָי
    Transliteration: ʼĂdônây
    Pronunciation: ad-o-noy'
    Description: an emphatic form of אָדוֹן; the Lord (used as a proper name of God only); (my) Lord.
  2. Strong's Number: H5596
    There are 6 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: סָפַח
    Transliteration: çâphach
    Pronunciation: saw-fakh'
    Description: or שָׂפַח; (Isaiah 3:17), a primitive root; properly, to scrape out, but in certain peculiar senses (of removal or association); abiding, gather together, cleave, smite with the scab.
  3. Strong's Number: H6936
    There are 11 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: קׇדְקֹד
    Transliteration: qodqôd
    Pronunciation: kod-kode'
    Description: from קָדַד; the crown of the head (as the part most bowed); crown (of the head), pate, scalp, top of the head.
  4. Strong's Number: H1323
    There are 499 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: בַּת
    Transliteration: bath
    Pronunciation: bath
    Description: from בָּנָה (as feminine of בֵּן); a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively); apple (of the eye), branch, company, daughter, [idiom] first, [idiom] old, [phrase] owl, town, village.
  5. Strong's Number: H6726
    There are 154 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: צִיּוֹן
    Transliteration: Tsîyôwn
    Pronunciation: tsee-yone'
    Description: the same (regularly) as צִיּוּןlemma צִיוּן missing dagesh, corrected to צִיּוּן; Tsijon (as a permanent capital), a mountain of Jerusalem; Zion.
  6. Strong's Number: H3068
    There are 5521 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: יְהֹוָה
    Transliteration: Yᵉhôvâh
    Pronunciation: yeh-ho-vaw'
    Description: from הָיָה; (the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God; Jehovah, the Lord. Compare יָהּ, יְהֹוִה.
  7. Strong's Number: H6168
    There are 14 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: עָרָה
    Transliteration: ʻârâh
    Pronunciation: aw-raw'
    Description: a primitive root; to be (causatively, make) bare; hence, to empty, pour out, demolish; leave destitute, discover, empty, make naked, pour (out), rase, spread self, uncover.
  8. Strong's Number: H6596
    There are 2 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: פֹּת
    Transliteration: pôth
    Pronunciation: pohth
    Description: or פֹּתָה; (Ezekiel 13:19), from an unused root meaning to open; a hole, i.e. hinge or the female pudenda; hinge, secret participle