isaiah

3 definitions found

isaiah - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Isaiah
      n 1: (Old Testament) the first of the major Hebrew prophets (8th
           century BC)
      2: an Old Testament book consisting of Isaiah's prophecies [syn:
         Isaiah, Book of Isaiah]

isaiah - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  Isaiah
  (Heb. Yesh'yahu, i.e., "the salvation of Jehovah"). (1.) The son
  of Amoz (Isa. 1:1; 2:1), who was apparently a man of humble
  rank. His wife was called "the prophetess" (8:3), either because
  she was endowed with the prophetic gift, like Deborah (Judg.
  4:4) and Huldah (2 Kings 22:14-20), or simply because she was
  the wife of "the prophet" (Isa. 38:1). He had two sons, who bore
  symbolical names.
  
    He exercised the functions of his office during the reigns of
  Uzziah (or Azariah), Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah (1:1). Uzziah
  reigned fifty-two years (B.C. 810-759), and Isaiah must have
  begun his career a few years before Uzziah's death, probably
  B.C. 762. He lived till the fourteenth year of Hezekiah, and in
  all likelihood outlived that monarch (who died B.C. 698), and
  may have been contemporary for some years with Manasseh. Thus
  Isaiah may have prophesied for the long period of at least
  sixty-four years.
  
    His first call to the prophetical office is not recorded. A
  second call came to him "in the year that King Uzziah died"
  (Isa. 6:1). He exercised his ministry in a spirit of
  uncompromising firmness and boldness in regard to all that bore
  on the interests of religion. He conceals nothing and keeps
  nothing back from fear of man. He was also noted for his
  spirituality and for his deep-toned reverence toward "the holy
  One of Israel."
  
    In early youth Isaiah must have been moved by the invasion of
  Israel by the Assyrian monarch Pul (q.v.), 2 Kings 15:19; and
  again, twenty years later, when he had already entered on his
  office, by the invasion of Tiglath-pileser and his career of
  conquest. Ahaz, king of Judah, at this crisis refused to
  co-operate with the kings of Israel and Syria in opposition to
  the Assyrians, and was on that account attacked and defeated by
  Rezin of Damascus and Pekah of Samaria (2 Kings 16:5; 2 Chr.
  28:5, 6). Ahaz, thus humbled, sided with Assyria, and sought the
  aid of Tiglath-pileser against Israel and Syria. The consequence
  was that Rezin and Pekah were conquered and many of the people
  carried captive to Assyria (2 Kings 15:29; 16:9; 1 Chr. 5:26).
  Soon after this Shalmaneser determined wholly to subdue the
  kingdom of Israel. Samaria was taken and destroyed (B.C. 722).
  So long as Ahaz reigned, the kingdom of Judah was unmolested by
  the Assyrian power; but on his accession to the throne, Hezekiah
  (B.C. 726), who "rebelled against the king of Assyria" (2 Kings
  18:7), in which he was encouraged by Isaiah, who exhorted the
  people to place all their dependence on Jehovah (Isa. 10:24;
  37:6), entered into an alliance with the king of Egypt (Isa.
  30:2-4). This led the king of Assyria to threaten the king of
  Judah, and at length to invade the land. Sennacherib (B.C. 701)
  led a powerful army into Palestine. Hezekiah was reduced to
  despair, and submitted to the Assyrians (2 Kings 18:14-16). But
  after a brief interval war broke out again, and again
  Sennacherib (q.v.) led an army into Palestine, one detachment of
  which threatened Jerusalem (Isa. 36:2-22; 37:8). Isaiah on that
  occasion encouraged Hezekiah to resist the Assyrians (37:1-7),
  whereupon Sennacherib sent a threatening letter to Hezekiah,
  which he "spread before the Lord" (37:14). The judgement of God
  now fell on the Assyrian host. "Like Xerxes in Greece,
  Sennacherib never recovered from the shock of the disaster in
  Judah. He made no more expeditions against either Southern
  Palestine or Egypt." The remaining years of Hezekiah's reign
  were peaceful (2 Chr. 32:23, 27-29). Isaiah probably lived to
  its close, and possibly into the reign of Manasseh, but the time
  and manner of his death are unknown. There is a tradition that
  he suffered martyrdom in the heathen reaction in the time of
  Manasseh (q.v.).
  
    (2.) One of the heads of the singers in the time of David (1
  Chr. 25:3,15, "Jeshaiah").
  
    (3.) A Levite (1 Chr. 26:25).
  
    (4.) Ezra 8:7.
  
    (5.) Neh. 11:7.

isaiah - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  21 Moby Thesaurus words for "Isaiah":
     Abraham, Amos, Daniel, Ezekiel, Haggai, Hosea, Isaac, Jacob,
     Jeremiah, Joel, Jonah, Joseph, Joshua, Malachi, Micah, Moses,
     Nahum, Samuel, Zephaniah, prophet, vates sacer