Isaiah 43:15

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

I am Yahweh, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.

World English Bible · Public Domain

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בּוֹרֵ֥א

bârâʼ

H1254

“creating”

Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Construct

Appears 54× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Genesis 1:1

Full BDB Definition

Origin: a primitive root

TWOT: 278

to create, shape, form - (Qal) to shape, fashion, create (always with God as subject) - of heaven and earth - of individual man - of new conditions and circumstances - of transformations - (Niphal) to be created - of heaven and earth - of birth - of something new - of miracles - (Piel) - to cut down - to cut out - to be fat - (Hiphil) to make yourselves fat

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

6: words
6: distinct lemmas
Prophets: section

Shared distinctive vocabulary

בּוֹרֵ֥א to create H1254 occurs in 46 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

1 verb
3 nouns
1 adjective
1 pronoun

Verb forms

בּוֹרֵ֥א Qal · Participle Active

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 12 words from the Hebrew and 15 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Isaiah 43:15 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Isaiah 43:1 But now thus says Yahweh who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel: Don't be afraid, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name, you are mine.
Psalms 74:12 Yet God is my King of old, Working salvation in the midst of the earth.
Isaiah 30:11 get out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us."
Isaiah 33:22 For Yahweh is our judge, Yahweh is our lawgiver, Yahweh is our king; he will save us.
Isaiah 40:25 To whom then will you liken me, that I should be equal [to him]? says the Holy One.
Isaiah 41:14 Don't be afraid, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel; I will help you, says Yahweh, and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 41:16 You shall winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them; and you shall rejoice in Yahweh, you shall glory in the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 43:3 For I am Yahweh your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I have given Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in your place.

Isaiah 43:7 everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.
Isaiah 45:11 Thus says Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker: Ask me of the things that are to come; concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands, command you me.
Isaiah 48:17 Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.
Jeremiah 51:5 For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah, of his God, of Yahweh of Hosts; though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.
Habakkuk 1:12 Aren't you from everlasting, Yahweh my God, my Holy One? We will not die. Yahweh, you have appointed him for judgment. You, Rock, have established him to punish.
Matthew 25:34 Then the King will tell those on his right hand, 'Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;
Revelation 3:7 "To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: "He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things:
Isaiah 43:21 the people which I formed for myself, that they might set forth my praise.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew Isaiah 43:15 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

אֲנִ֥י יְהוָ֖ה קְדֽוֹשְׁכֶ֑ם בּוֹרֵ֥א יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל מַלְכְּכֶֽם

I am Yahweh, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Isaiah 43:15 Septuagint · lemma form

ἐγώ κύριος ὁ θεός ὁ ἅγιος σύ ὁ καταδεικνύω ἰσραήλ βασιλεύς σύ

I am the Lord God, your Holy One, who have appointed for Israel your king.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.

Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)

אֲנָא יְיָ קַדִישְׁכוֹן דִבְרָאֵי לְיִשְׂרָאֵל מַלְכְּכוֹן:

I am the Lord, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.

Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on Isaiah 43:15 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →

Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Isa 43:15 I [am] the LORD, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King.

Ver. 15. I am their Lord.] More of God’s holy attributes are here heaped up for like reason, as in Isa 43:14.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown

creator of Israel-- (Isa 43:1).

your--proved to be specially yours by delivering you.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 15. The Creator] For בורא bore, "Creator," six MSS. (two ancient) have אלהי Elohey, "God."

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

John Gill's Exposition

Thus saith the Lord, which maketh a way in the sea,.... Who did make a way in the Red sea, when he led Israel through it as on dry land; this, with what follows, is observed to encourage the faith of the Lord's people in the performance of what he had promised, to bring them out of Babylon; for he that had done this, and the rest that are mentioned, could easily remove all difficulties that lay in the way of their deliverance:

and a path in the mighty waters; either of the Red sea, or it may be of Jordan; through which the Israelites passed into the land of Canaan.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I am the Lord - I am Yahweh - proved to be such, as the connection demands that we should interpret this, by sending to Babylon and bringing down your oppressors. This interposition in destroying Babylon would be a demonstration that he was Yahweh, the only true God, and their God.

The Creator of Israel - (See the note at Isa 43:1).

Your King - Ruling over you, and showing the right to do it by delivering you from your foes.

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

Your Holy One; the Holy One of Israel, as he frequently styleth himself, who sanctify and glorify myself in this and such other glorious works, with respect to you, or for your benefit.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

The Creator of Israel. An unusual epithet; but comp. vers. 1, 7. Your King. (see Jud_1:8:23 1Sa_8:7 1Sa_12:12; and comp. Isa_33:22 Isa_45:6)

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

J. A. Alexander on Isaiah

Joseph Addison Alexander

“I Jehovah, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.” This verse may possibly have been intended merely to identify the subject of the one before it. ‘I sent to Babylon etc. even I, Jehovah, your Holy One etc.’ It is simpler, however, and more in accordance with the usage of the language to make this a distinct proposition by supplying the verb of existence. I am Jehovah, or, I Jehovah (am) your Holy One, or, I Jehovah, your Holy One, (am) the Creator of Israel, your King. Even in this case, the event predicted in v. 14 is referred to as the proof of His being what He here asserts.

Joseph Addison Alexander, The Prophecies of Isaiah (1846–1847; New York: Scribner, 1870–1878) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Ibn Ezra

Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra

Your holy one. For I shall be your King, to save you.

Ibn Ezra on the Tanakh — English translations: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “Yalkut, Sifsei Chachomim Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009” (CC BY 4.0); and “Commentary of Ibn Ezra on Isaiah - trans. by M. Friedlander, 1873” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Lesson kit

Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.

Isaiah, in the Prophets, opens this verse with 6 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is bârâʼ (“to create”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

What does “to create” (bârâʼ) contribute to the verse as a whole?
Genesis 1:1 shares the word «to create» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
The verb «בּוֹרֵ֥א» is Qal Participle Active. How does its form color the action?
Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Jamieson, Fausset & Brown read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

These translations choose different wording for 5 words in this verse.
6 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 6 words in this verse.