Bible Person
Meaning: making speed to the spoil; he hastens to the prey · Male · 2 cross references
Maher-shalal-hash-baz is Isaiah's son whose striking symbolic name announces swift judgment on Damascus and Samaria. He belongs to the prophet's sign-bearing household, where family life becomes part of the prophetic message. First appears in Isa 8:1.1
AI summary: Maher-shalal-hash-baz matters because his cross references show prophecy embodied in a child's name before the predicted political upheaval arrives. The name itself carries the urgency of approaching conquest, making the boy a living witness to Isaiah's warning. Taken together, the material presents Maher-shalal-hash-baz as one of Scripture's clearest examples of a prophetic sign enacted through family identity.1
Central Figure
Maher-shalal-hash-baz
Meaning: making speed to the spoil; he hastens to the prey
Plunder speedeth; spoil hasteth, (Isa.
Plunder speedeth; spoil hasteth, (Isa. 8:1-3; comp. Zeph. 1:14), a name Isaiah was commanded first to write in large characters on a tablet, and afterwards to give as a symbolical name to a son that was to be born to him (Isa. 8:1, 3), as denoting the sudden attack on Damascus and Syria by the Assyrian army. 3
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.