Isaías 8:3

3 Después me acosté con mi esposa y ella quedó embarazada, y dio a luz un hijo. Y el Señor
me dijo: «Ponle por nombre Maher-shalal-hash-baz.

Isaías 8:3 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 8:3

And I went unto the prophetess
His wife, so called; not because she prophesied, but because she was the wife of a prophet; and besides, the birth of her son later mentioned, and his name, had in them the nature of a prophecy. The phrase of going unto her is an euphemism, a modest way of expressing the conjugal debt: and she conceived and bare a son;
which Jarchi would have the same with Immanuel in ( Isaiah 7:14 ) but this is a later prophecy, and a distinct one from that; and not only the names of the children are different, but the mothers also; the one a virgin, the other the prophet's wife. Then said the Lord to me, call his name Mahershalalhashbaz:
of the signification of this name, (See Gill on Isaiah 8:1). Kimchi thinks that his name did not consist of these four words, only of two of them; and that he was sometimes called "Mahershalal", and sometimes "Hashbaz": both signifying the same thing. Some think that all this was done only in a vision, and not in reality, to declare and confirm what follows; though by that it seems rather to be a real fact.

Isaías 8:3 In-Context

1 Futura invasión de los asirios
Luego el Señor
me dijo: «Haz un letrero grande y escribe con claridad el siguiente nombre: Maher-shalal-hash-baz
».

2 Les pedí al sacerdote Urías y a Zacarías, hijo de Jeberequías, ambos conocidos como hombres honrados, que fueran testigos de lo que yo hacía.

3 Después me acosté con mi esposa y ella quedó embarazada, y dio a luz un hijo. Y el Señor
me dijo: «Ponle por nombre Maher-shalal-hash-baz.

4 Pues antes de que este hijo tenga edad suficiente para decir “papá” o “mamá”, el rey de Asiria se llevará la abundancia de Damasco y las riquezas de Samaria».

5 Entonces el Señor
volvió a hablar conmigo y me dijo: