Passage Research
Isaiah 6 — Sermon Preparation
Isaiah sees the Lord enthroned in the temple, receives cleansing with a live coal, and is commissioned as a messenger to a hardened people. Below is a research summary for Isaiah 6, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
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- verses
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- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 12
- classic sermon excerpts
- 6
- preachers & commentators
Isaiah 6 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| רָאָה | râʼâh | H7200 | 5 | see |
| קָדוֹשׁ | qâdôwsh | H6918 | 3 | sacred, God |
| שָׂפָה | sâphâh | H8193 | 3 | lip, language |
| שָׁמַע | shâmaʻ | H8085 | 4 | hear, tell |
| מַצֶּבֶת | matstsebeth | H4678 | 2 | stationary, stone |
| שָׁאָה | shâʼâh | H7582 | 2 | rush, desolate |
| שָׂרָף | sârâph | H8314 | 2 | burning, poisonous |
How preachers through history handled this text
12 public-domain excerpts on Isaiah 6, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“VISION AND SERVICE In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and His train filled the temple. 2. Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. 3. And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of Hosts: the whole earth is full of His glory. 4. And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. 5. …”
— Alexander MacLaren, Expositions of Holy Scripture: Isaiah and Jeremiah, on Isaiah 6:1–13 (Public Domain)
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