Definition of Isaiah

1. Noun. (Old Testament) the first of the major Hebrew prophets (8th century BC).

Category relationships: Old Testament
Generic synonyms: Prophet

2. Noun. An Old Testament book consisting of Isaiah's prophecies.
Exact synonyms: Book Of Isaiah
Generic synonyms: Book
Group relationships: Old Testament, Nebiim, Prophets

Definition of Isaiah

1. Proper noun. A book of the Old Testament of Bible, and of the Tanakh. ¹

2. Proper noun. (biblical character) A prophet, the author of the Book of Isaiah. ¹

3. Proper noun. (Hebrew male given name). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Isaiah

Isaac Merrit Singer
Isaac Newton
Isaac Stern
Isaac Watts
Isaack
Isabel
Isabell
Isabella
Isabella I
Isabella Stewart Gardner
Isabella the Catholic
Isabelle
Isadora
Isadora Duncan
Isadore
Isaiah (current term)
Isaias
Isak Dinesen
Isamine blue
Isamu Noguchi
Isan
Isatis tinctoria
Isauria
Iscariot
Iscariots
Ischigualastia
Isere
Isere River
Isernia
Iseult

Literary usage of Isaiah

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"I. The Prophet and His Times: The name rendered " Isaiah " in English has in the Hebrew ... xxi., Isaiah the prophet is mentioned only twice in the Bible. ..."

2. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of by William Thomas Lowndes, Henry George Bohn (1865)
"A new Translation of Isaiah vii. 13 to the End of luí, from the original Hebrew, ... Isaiah, a new Translation, with a preliminary Dissertation and Notes, ..."

3. Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg (1856)
"Isaiah is the principal prophetical figure in the first period of canonical ... With Isaiah are connected in the kingdom of Judah : Joel, Obadiah, ..."

4. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1885)
"CHEYNE'S COMMENTARY ON Isaiah.*—This is the third edition of a work, which in point of scholarship and candor ranks high among Biblical commentaries. ..."

5. The Expository Times by James Hastings, Ann Wilson Hastings, Edward Hastings (1889)
"The Bock of Isaiah chronologically arrange J. By TK CHEYNE, MA Macmillan. ... The Prophecies of Isaiah. A new translation, with Commentary and Appendices. ..."

6. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"I. The Prophet and His Times: The name rendered " Isaiah " in English has in the Hebrew ... xxi., Isaiah the prophet is mentioned only twice in the Bible. ..."

7. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of by William Thomas Lowndes, Henry George Bohn (1865)
"A new Translation of Isaiah vii. 13 to the End of luí, from the original Hebrew, ... Isaiah, a new Translation, with a preliminary Dissertation and Notes, ..."

8. Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg (1856)
"Isaiah is the principal prophetical figure in the first period of canonical ... With Isaiah are connected in the kingdom of Judah : Joel, Obadiah, ..."

9. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1885)
"CHEYNE'S COMMENTARY ON Isaiah.*—This is the third edition of a work, which in point of scholarship and candor ranks high among Biblical commentaries. ..."

10. The Expository Times by James Hastings, Ann Wilson Hastings, Edward Hastings (1889)
"The Bock of Isaiah chronologically arrange J. By TK CHEYNE, MA Macmillan. ... The Prophecies of Isaiah. A new translation, with Commentary and Appendices. ..."

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