Isaiahישעיהו
In the Bible
The prophet Isaiah (ישעיהו) — first attested in 2 Ki 19:2.
וַ֠יִּשְׁלַ֠ח אֶת־אֶלְיָקִ֨ים אֲשֶׁר־עַל־הַבַּ֜יִת וְשֶׁבְנָ֣א הַסֹּפֵ֗ר וְאֵת֙ זִקְנֵ֣י הַכֹּהֲנִ֔ים מִתְכַּסִּ֖ים בַּשַּׂקִּ֑ים אֶל־יְשַׁעְיָ֥הוּ הַנָּבִ֖יא בֶּן־אָמֽוֹץ׃
He also sent Eliakim, who was in charge of the palace, Shebna the scribe, and the senior priests, covered with sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz.
Gematria & sigil
The consonantal gematria of Isaiah (ישעיהו) and its sigil traced on the Lo Shu (Saturn 3×3) by the Aiq-Bekar digital-root method: each letter's value reduces to 1–9, those cells are joined in order — the trace is the sigil.
| Letter | Value | Aiq Bekar |
|---|---|---|
| י | 10 | 1 |
| ש | 300 | 3 |
| ע | 70 | 7 |
| י | 10 | 1 |
| ה | 5 | 5 |
| ו | 6 | 6 |
| Total | 401 | 5 |
Stellar letters
The 6-consonant name needs its 4 distinct simple-letters to be occupied in the sky. The 7 classical bodies open a sign → its Hebrew simple letter; this name reads only when the planets sit in exactly these signs.
Readable on these rare conjunctions
Isaiah appears in the stellar reading on 0 of the 12 dated rare conjunctions (proofs.json). Its required simple letters are never all occupied together on these 12 dates — a multi-letter name is rarer than a single-letter one. Open any date in the Reader to inspect that sky.
No readable date among the 12 — this name needs more simultaneous simple letters than any of these conjunctions occupy.
Description
Isaiah was the 8th-century BC Israelite prophet after whom the Book of Isaiah is named.
Facts
| Born | 8th century BC |
| Died | 7th century BC |
| Venerated in | Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Baháʼí Faith, Rastafari |
| Feast | May 9, Thursday after the Feast of the Transfiguration (Armenian Apostolic Church) |
| Major works | Book of Isaiah |
Life & work in brief
Summarised by section — one row per topic, for fast reading.
| Topic | Summary |
|---|---|
| Biography | The first verse of the Book of Isaiah states that Isaiah prophesied during the reigns of Uzziah (or Azariah), Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, the kings of Judah. |
| In Judaism | In addition to Isaiah’s origination in Judaism’s Hebrew Bible Book of Isaiah, references to the Israelite prophet in Jewish rabbinic literature contain various expansions, elaborations, and inferences. |
| In Christianity | The Ascension of Isaiah, a pseudepigraphical Christian text dated to sometime between the end of the 1st century and the beginning of the 3rd, gives a detailed story of Isaiah confronting an evil false prophet and ending with Isaiah being martyred – none of which is attested in the original Biblical account. |
| In Islam | Isaiah (Arabic: إِشَعْيَاء, romanized: Ishaʿyāʾ) is not mentioned by name in the Quran or the Hadith, but appears frequently as a prophet in Muslim sources such as the qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʾ and various tafsirs. |
| Archaeology | In February 2018, archaeologist Eilat Mazar announced that she and her team had discovered a small seal impression which reads "[belonging] to Isaiah nvy" (could be reconstructed and read as "[belonging] to Isaiah the prophet") during the Ophel excavations, just south of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. |
Prophecies
Key prophetic utterances and visions attributed to Isaiah, with sources.
| Prophecy / vision | Source |
|---|---|
| A virgin conceives and bears a son, Immanuel | Isa 7:14 |
| A child is born; the Prince of Peace on David's throne forever | Isa 9:6-7 |
| A shoot from the stump of Jesse; the Spirit of YHWH rests on him | Isa 11:1-2 |
| The Servant bears the sins of many and makes intercession | Isa 53:11-12 |
| New heavens and a new earth; the former not remembered | Isa 65:17 |