The Meaning of Isaiah 5:10 Explained

Isaiah 5:10

KJV: Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.

YLT: For ten acres of vineyard do yield one bath, And an homer of seed yieldeth an ephah.

Darby: Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield an ephah.

ASV: For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield but an ephah.

Discover Isaiah 5:10

CONTEXT: What is the Context of Isaiah 5:10?

MEANING: What does Isaiah 5:10 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Isaiah 5:10 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Isaiah 5:10?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Yea,  ten  acres  of vineyard  shall yield  one  bath,  and the seed  of an homer  shall yield  an ephah. 

What does Isaiah 5:10 Mean?

Context Summary

Isaiah 5:1-17 - A Disappointing Harvest
In a picture of great beauty, Isaiah describes a vineyard situated on one of the sunny heights visible from Jerusalem. Every care which an experienced vine-dresser could devise had been expended on it, but in vain. The vine-dresser himself is introduced, demanding if more could have been done. When God selects a nation, a church, or an individual for high and holy work in the world and expends care and pains on the preparation of the instrument, and His plans miscarry through no failure on His part but through the obstinancy or obtuseness of the human soul, the measure of what might have been is the gauge of its doom. The worst weeds grow on the richest soil. This picture is the counterpart of Paul's dread of being a castaway, 1 Corinthians 9:27.
The six woes which follow, arising from drunkenness and avarice remind us of sorrows that menace the selfish heart. How different such a lot to the blessedness of the humblest soul that possesses God and is possessed by Him! "Evil shall slay the wicked; and they that hate the righteous shall be condemned. Jehovah redeemeth the soul of His servants; and none of them that take refuge in Him shall be condemned," Psalms 34:21-22. [source]

Chapter Summary: Isaiah 5

1  Under the parable of a vineyard, God excuses his severe judgment
8  His judgments upon covetousness
11  Upon lasciviousness
13  Upon impiety
20  And upon injustice
26  The executioners of God's judgments

What do the individual words in Isaiah 5:10 mean?

For ten acres of vineyard shall yield bath one and seed a homer of shall yield one ephah -
כִּ֗י עֲשֶׂ֙רֶת֙ צִמְדֵּי־ כֶ֔רֶם יַעֲשׂ֖וּ בַּ֣ת אֶחָ֑ת וְזֶ֥רַע חֹ֖מֶר יַעֲשֶׂ֥ה אֵיפָֽה פ

עֲשֶׂ֙רֶת֙  ten 
Parse: Number, masculine singular construct
Root: עֶשֶׂר 
Sense: ten.
צִמְדֵּי־  acres 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural construct
Root: צֶמֶד  
Sense: couple, pair, team, yoke.
כֶ֔רֶם  of  vineyard 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: כֶּרֶם 
Sense: vineyard.
יַעֲשׂ֖וּ  shall  yield 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person masculine plural
Root: עָשָׂה 
Sense: to do, fashion, accomplish, make.
בַּ֣ת  bath 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: בַּת  
Sense: bath, a unit of liquid measure, equal to dry measure ephah (about 9 imperial gallons or 40 litres, rabbinical writings give sizes of one-half this amount).
אֶחָ֑ת  one 
Parse: Number, feminine singular
Root: אֶחָד  
Sense: one (number).
וְזֶ֥רַע  and  seed 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: זֶרַע  
Sense: seed, sowing, offspring.
חֹ֖מֶר  a  homer 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: חֹמֶר 
Sense: cement, mortar, clay.
יַעֲשֶׂ֥ה  of  shall  yield 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: עָשָׂה 
Sense: to do, fashion, accomplish, make.
אֵיפָֽה  one  ephah 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular
Root: אֵיפָה  
Sense: ephah.
פ  - 
Parse: Punctuation

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