Isaiah 14:16:8Isa.14.16.W8TAB
מַרְגִּ֣יז
margiz
“making quake or causing to tremble”
- Transliteration
- mar-GIZ
- Extended
- mahr-GEEZ
- IPA
- /marˈɡiːz/
Meaning by language
- English
- making quake or causing to tremble
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Gimel | g as in good | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Zayin | z as in zero |
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Word in context
- word
mar-GIZ
- phraseyour reading level
mar-GIZ ha-A-rets
- clause
ha-ZEH ha-ISH mar-GIZ ha-A-rets mar-ISH mam-la-KHOT
- sentence
ro-e-KHA E-le-KHA yash-ge-KHI-khu E-le-KHA yit-bo-NA-nu ha-ZEH ha-ISH mar-GIZ ha-A-rets mar-ISH mam-la-KHOT
Exegesis
Two parallel Hiphil participles, margiz {מַרְגִּיז | margîz} ‘one who causes to tremble’ and marish {מַרְעִישׁ | marʿîš} ‘one who causes to shake’, function as attributive/relative descriptions; their paired objects haaretz {הָאָרֶץ | hāʾāreṣ} ‘the earth’ and mamlakhot {מַמְלָכוֹת | mamlāḵōṯ} ‘kingdoms’ produce balanced parallelism that heightens the contrast between former destabilizing power and present humiliation under observation. The English keeps the forward movement from gaze to evaluation and preserves the quoted interrogative to retain the tone of incredulity.
Root and etymology
consonantsResh–Gimel–Zayin
“to quake, agitate”
In context — Isaiah 14:16
Those who see you will fix their gaze on you; they will study you, saying, “Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who shook kingdoms ?”
About this coordinate
Isaiah 14:16:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of Isaiah 14:16, so the Hebrew word מַרְגִּ֣יז (margiz) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written Isa.14.16.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (Isa.14.16.W8.S1) and character.