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Appendix 1: Archaic Words and Expressions in Isaiah
Donald W. Parry
Provo, Utah: Maxwell InstituteThe views expressed in this article are the views of the author and do not necessarily represent the position of the Maxwell Institute, Brigham Young University, or The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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Note: Each archaic expression listed below was reviewed in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed. This list does not include all of the -th (e.g., stirreth, heweth, graveth, scattereth, mourneth, fadeth, languisheth) and -st (e.g., didst, sayest, dwellest, shouldest, camest) words that exist in Isaiah. The plus sign (+) in parentheses indicates that the archaic word is found more than once in the book of Isaiah.

afar (23:7+)

aforetime (52:4)

ancients (3:14+)

angle=hook (19:8)

art (14:8+)

astonied (52:14)

away with=endure (1:13+)

barren woman (54:1)

beforetime (41:26)

beget/begettest (39:7)

beseech (38:3+)

besieged (1:8+)

besom (14:23)

bestead (8:21)

bestowed (63:7)

betwixt (5:3)

bewail (16:9)

bewray (16:3)

bittern (14:23+)

bonnets (3:20)

brambles (34:13)

bullocks (65:25)

bulwarks (26:1)

bunch (30:6)

bursting (30:14)

carbuncles (54:12)

carelessly (47:8)

carriages (10:28+)

cauls (3:18)

chains (3:19+)

cherubims (37:16)

churl=knave (40:2+)

clave (48:21)

cockatrice (11:8+)

compass (50:11+)

consolations (66:11)

consumption (28:22+)

contemned (16:14)

convert (58:7)

cormorant (34:11)

corn (17:5+)

crisping pins (3:22)

cunning artificer (3:3)

cunning workman (40:20)

dandled (66:12)

dealt to (33:1+)

delectable (44:9)

digged (7:25)

dimness (8:22+)

disannul (14:27)

discomfited (31:8)

divorcement (50:1)

doctrine (28:9+)

doleful (13:21)

doth (1:3+)

dragons (13:22+)

dregs (51:17+)

dromedaries (60:6)

dryshod (11:15)

dunghill (25:10)

durable clothing (23:18)

ear the ground (30:24)

enchantments (47:9+)

eveningtide (17:14)

exactors (60:17)

extolled (52:13)

extortioner (16:4)

fainthearted (7:4)

fatness (17:4+)

feller (14:8)

firebrands (7:4)

fitches (28:26+)

flagons (22:24)

fret (8:21)

fro (24:20+)

frowardly (57:17)

fuller's (7:3+)

gin (8:14)

girdle (3:24+)

grievous (15:14+)

harvestman (17:5)

hast (2:6+)

hasten (5:19)

hasting (16:5)

hath (1:2+)

henceforth (52:1+)

hireling (16:14+)

hither (57:3)

ho (55:1)

hoar hairs (46:4)

impoverished (40:20)

laden (1:4)

latchet (5:27)

lay to (28:17+)

lees (25:6)

lest (6:10+)

let (29:7+)

lo (6:7+)

loaden (46:1)

lovingkindnesses (63:7)

mantles (3:22)

mart (23:3)

mattock (7:25)

mean (2:9+)

meat (62:8+)

merryhearted (24:7)

mine own (37:35)

mirth (24:8+)

mollified (1:6)

mufflers (3:19)

mustereth (13:4)

nettles (34:13)

nought (8:10+)

outmost (17:6)

overpast (26:20)

pining (38:12)

plaister (38:21)

plowman (28:24)

polluted (47:6+)

potsherd (45:9)

prognosticators (47:13)

putrifying (1:6)

reckoned (38:13)

rent (36:22+)

replenished (2:6+)

reproach (4:1+)

rereward (52:12+)

revilings (51:7)

rie (28:25)

rod (11:1+)

roe (13:14)

rottenness (5:24)

ruinous heaps (37:26)

rushes (35:7)

satyrs (13:21+)

scattered (18:2+)

shalt (1:18+)

shew (43:9+)

shittah (41:19)

silverlings (7:23)

sodering (41:7)

softly (8:6+)

soothsayers (2:6)

spoiler (16:4+)

stay upon God (3:1+)

stem of Jesse (11:1)

stock of a tree (44:19)

stomacher (3:24)

stouthearted (46:12)

stoutness (9:9)

straight (40:3+)

strange slips (17:10+)

stricken (1:5+)

substance (6:13+)

sucking child (11:8+)

sunder (27:9+)

Syrian language (36:11)

tablets (3:20)

tabret(s) (24:8+)

tacklings (33:23)

tarry (46:13)

teil tree (6:13)

thence (52:11+)

thereon (30:12+)

thereto (44:15)

thine (6:7+)

thither (7:25+)

tin (1:25)

tires (3:18)

tow (1:31+)

traffickers (23:8)

travaileth (13:8+)

trodden (14:9+)

twain (6:2)

unicorns (34:7)

uphold (41:10+)

utterly (2:18+)

uttermost (7:18+)

vail (25:7)

vexation (9:1+)

villany (32:6)

viol (5:12)

visage (52:14)

wast (12:1+)

waster (54:16)

wasting (59:7+)

wax (29:22+)

wayfaring (33:8+)

whence (30:6+)

whereas (37:21+)

whereto (55:11)

wherewith (28:12+)

whither (20:6)

wholly (22:1)

wilt (38:12+)

wimples (3:22)

winefat (63:2)

withal (30:14+)

wither (19:6+)

work (40:10+)

wroth (47:6+)

wrought (26:12+)

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