Bible Dictionary
ASSOCIATE
Associate is an older translation of a difficult Hebrew expression in Isaiah 8:9. The passage is variously understood as calling the nations to make an uproar, break, or gather together.
Definition
Associate is an older translation of a difficult Hebrew expression in Isaiah 8:9. The word has been understood as referring to making an uproar, breaking, gathering together, or becoming wicked.
Biblical Usage
It occurs only in the King James Version of Isaiah 8:9, where the surrounding passage addresses the nations and their threatened opposition.
Historical Background
The Revised Version translates the expression “make an uproar,” while its margin gives “break”; other ancient and later versions offer different renderings.
Historical Bible Dictionaries
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE)
<p>a-so'-shi-at: Only in Isa 8:9 the King James Version, where the Hebrew ro`u, is variously interpreted, according to differences of opinion as to the verb whence it comes. The Revised Version (British and American) "make an uproar"; the Revised Version, margin "break"; Vulgate (Jerome's Latin Bible, 390-405 A.D.) "Congregamini"; Septuagint gnote ("know ye"); Luther: seid boese ("be wicked").</p>