Book of Isaiah
- proper noun
- Literature
- Throughout the Book of Isaiah, the prophet encourages God's people to avoid entanglements with foreigners who worship alien gods.
Examples
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In our discussion today, I will read a passage from the Book of Isaiah that highlights the theme of justice.
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The Book of Isaiah ends with Zion awaiting rather than actually undergoing its transformative visitation.
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A desert city in the book of Isaiah.
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The Book of Isaiah is then quoted as follows:
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In the Book of Isaiah, He says, "You're going to fast and pray; I'm not listening to that."
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The Book of Isaiah contains three authorial voices in the view of most scholars.
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But only the Book of Isaiah recorded and interpreted the entire two-and-a-half-century process of exile and restoration.
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Recall the powerful line in the book of Isaiah denouncing those who "grind the faces of the poor."
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Here, accordingly, I propose for our consideration a text from the Book of Isaiah: "Woe unto them that call evil good and good evil; that put darkness for light and light for darkness."
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Many scholars reference the Book of Isaiah for its profound insights into ancient prophecy.
Synonyms
A long book in the Bible containing messages from a Jewish prophet
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'book' + 'of' + the proper name 'Isaiah' indicates a book associated with Isaiah, so a learner who knows the constituent words can infer it refers to the biblical book containing Isaiah's prophecies. This possessive/genitive construction is cross-linguistically common and contains no idiomatic shift, making the phrase immediately understandable.
Etymology
The Book of Isaiah is a book named after the prophet Isaiah. People long ago wrote down his spoken messages, warnings and hopes, so the name points to that part of the Bible with his 'prophecies'.