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Isaiah 20:1

בִּשְׁנַ֨ת
shâneh
in/with/by — a year (as a revolution of time)
בֹּ֤א
bôwʼ
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
תַרְתָּן֙
Tartân
Tartan, an Assyrian
אַשְׁדּ֔וֹדָה
ʼAshdôwd
Ashdod, a place in Palestine
בִּשְׁלֹ֣ח
shâlach
in/with/by — to send away, for, or out (in a great variety of applications)
אֹת֔וֹ
ʼêth
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
סַֽרְג֖וֹן
Çargôwn
Sargon, an Assyrian king
מֶ֣לֶךְ
melek
a king
אַשּׁ֑וּר
ʼAshshûwr
Ashshur, the second son of Shem; also his descendants and the country occupied by them (i.e. Assyria), its region and its empire
וַיִּלָּ֥חֶם
lâcham
and — to feed on; figuratively, to consume; by implication, to battle (as destruction)
בְּאַשְׁדּ֖וֹד
ʼAshdôwd
in/with/by — Ashdod, a place in Palestine
וַֽיִּלְכְּדָֽהּ
lâkad
and — to catch (in a net, trap or pit); generally, to capture or occupy; also to choose (by lot); figuratively, to cohere
Isaiah 20:1 · Masoretic Text (WLC)
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In the year that
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A genuine, checkable historical anchor: Sargon II was virtually unknown outside this one verse until 19th-century archaeology uncovered his …
the Tartan
Narrator's Aside
A genuine, checkable historical anchor: Sargon II was virtually unknown outside this one verse until 19th-century archaeology uncovered his …
[the Assyrian commander in chief] came to Ashdod [in Philistia],
Narrator's Aside
A genuine, checkable historical anchor: Sargon II was virtually unknown outside this one verse until 19th-century archaeology uncovered his …
when Sargon king of Assyria sent him and he fought against Ashdod and captured it,
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In the year that the Tartan [the Assyrian commander in chief] came to Ashdod [in Philistia], when Sargon king of Assyria sent him and he fought against Ashdod and captured it,
Isaiah 20:1
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