Isaiah 19:6
Strong's Lexicon
The canals
נְהָר֔וֹת (nə·hā·rō·wṯ)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5104: 1) stream, river 1a) stream, river 1b) (underground) streams

will stink;
וְהֶאֶזְנִ֣יחוּ (wə·he·’ez·nî·ḥū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 2186: 1) to cast off, reject, spurn 1a) (Qal) to reject 1b) (Hiphil) to forcefully reject someone 2) to stink, emit stench, become odious 2a) (Hiphil) stink (perfect)

the streams
יְאֹרֵ֣י (yə·’ō·rê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 2975: 1) river, stream, canal, Nile, Nile-canal 1a) stream, river (Nile) 1b) Nile-arms, Nile-canals 1c) watercourses 1d) shafts (mining) 1e) river (in general)

of Egypt
מָצ֑וֹר (mā·ṣō·wr)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4693: 1) 'Matsor', a name for Egypt 2) (TWOT) siege, entrenchment

will trickle
דָּלֲל֥וּ (dā·lă·lū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 1809: 1) to hang, languish, hang down, be low 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to hang low 1a2) to be low 1a3) of distress (fig.) 1a4) to languish, look weakly (of eyes) 1b) (Niphal) to be brought low, be laid low

and dry up;
וְחָרְב֖וּ (wə·ḥā·rə·ḇū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 2717: 1) to be waste, lay waste, make desolate, be desolate, be in ruins 1a) (Qal) to be waste, be desolate 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be made desolate 1b2) desolate (participle) 1c) (Hiphil) to lay waste, make desolate 1d) (Hophal) to be laid waste 2) to be dry, be dried up 2a) (Qal) to be dried, be dried up 2b) (Pual) to be dried 2c) (Hiphil) to dry up 2d) (Hophal) to be dried up 3) to attack, smite down, slay, fight

the reeds
קָנֶ֥ה (qā·neh)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7070: 1) reed, stalk, bone, balances 1a) stalk 1b) water-plant, reed 1c) calamus (aromatic reed) 1d) derived meanings 1d1) measuring-rod 1d2) reed (as unit of measure-6 cubits) 1d3) beam (of scales-for scales themselves) 1d4) shaft (of lampstand) 1d5) branches (of lampstand) 1d6) shoulder-joint

and rushes
וָס֖וּף (wā·sūp̄)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5488: 1) reed, rush, water plant 1a) rushes 1b) sea of rushes 1b1) of Red Sea 1b2) of arms of Red Sea 1b3) of Gulf of Suez 1b4) of sea from straits to Gulf of Akaba

will wither.
קָמֵֽלוּ׃ (qā·mê·lū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 7060: 1) to be decayed, be withered 1a) (Qal) to moulder, be withered

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will trickle and dry up; the reeds and rushes will wither.

Young's Literal Translation
And they have turned away the flowings, Weak and dried up have been brooks of the bulwark, Reed and flag have withered.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The channels will stink; they will dwindle, and Egypt’s canals will be parched. Reed and rush will die.

New American Standard Bible
The canals will emit a stench, The streams of Egypt will thin out and dry up; The reeds and rushes will rot away.

King James Bible
And they shall turn the rivers far away; [and] the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.
Parallel Verses
New International Version
The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will dwindle and dry up. The reeds and rushes will wither,

New Living Translation
The canals of the Nile will dry up, and the streams of Egypt will stink with rotting reeds and rushes.

English Standard Version
and its canals will become foul, and the branches of Egypt’s Nile will diminish and dry up, reeds and rushes will rot away.

New American Standard Bible
The canals will emit a stench, The streams of Egypt will thin out and dry up; The reeds and rushes will rot away.

King James Bible
And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The channels will stink; they will dwindle, and Egypt's canals will be parched. Reed and rush will die.

International Standard Version
The canals will stink, and the tributaries of Egypt will dwindle and dry up. Reeds and rushes will wither away.

NET Bible
The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will trickle and then dry up; the bulrushes and reeds will decay,

American Standard Version
And the rivers shall become foul; the streams of Egypt shall be diminished and dried up; the reeds and flags shall wither away.

English Revised Version
And the rivers shall stink; the streams of Egypt shall be minished and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither away.

Young's Literal Translation
And they have turned away the flowings, Weak and dried up have been brooks of the bulwark, Reed and flag have withered.
















Cross References
Genesis 41:2
And, behold, there came up out of the river seven well favoured kine and fatfleshed; and they fed in a meadow.

Exodus 2:3
And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.

Exodus 7:18
And the fish that is in the river shall die, and the river shall stink; and the Egyptians shall lothe to drink of the water of the river.

2 Kings 19:24
I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.

Job 8:11
Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?

Isaiah 15:6
For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.

Isaiah 37:25
I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.

Nahum 3:8
Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea?

Isaiah 1:1
The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

Isaiah 19:5
And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.

Isaiah 19:4
And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts.
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Branches Brooks Canals Defence Defense Diminish Diminished Drain Dried Dry Egypt Egypt's Emptied Evil Far Flags Flowings Foul Minished Nile Reeds Rivers Rot Rushes Small Smell Stench Stink Stream Streams Thin Turn Turned Water-Plants Weak Wither
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