Isaiah 66:7
Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child.
KJV
Antequam parturiret, peperit ; antequam veniret partus ejus, peperit masculum.
Vulgate
πρὶν τὴν ὠδίνουσαν τεκεῖν, πρὶν ἐλθεῖν τὸν πόνον τῶν ὠδίνων, ἐξέφυγεν καὶ ἔτεκεν ἄρσεν.
LXX
Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man-child.
ASV
בְּ/טֶ֥רֶם תָּחִ֖יל יָלָ֑דָה בְּ/טֶ֨רֶם יָב֥וֹא חֵ֛בֶל לָ֖/הּ וְ/הִמְלִ֥יטָה זָכָֽר
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
בָּ֣א
b'
verb · 2573×
ה
h
verb · 95×
הוֹלִ֣יד
hvlyd
verb · 478×
זְּכָרִֽים
zkrym
noun · 82×
חֶ֣בֶל
chbl
noun · 61×
טֶ֣רֶם
trm
adverb · 56×
ן
n
verb · 61×
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Concerning the holy and much-lauded ever-virgin one, Mary, the Mother of God, we have said something in the preceding chapters, bringing forward what was most opportune, viz., that strictly and truly she is and is called the Mother of God. Now let us fill up the blanks. For she being pre-ordained by the eternal prescient counsel of God and imaged forth and proclaimed in diverse…
Cross-references
- Ezek 16:61 — Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant.
- Gal 4:26 — But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
- Mic 4:10 — Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go even to Babylon; t
- Rev 12:1 — And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:
- Rev 12:2 — And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.