הוֹי כָּל-צָמֵא (Hoy kol-tsame)

MEANING'Ho, everyone who thirsts!' The opening call of Isaiah 55:1. Hoy: an urgent exclamatory call for attention. Kol-tsame: everyone who is thirsty. The only qualification for the universal invitation is thirst --- the awareness of genuine need.

GRAMMARHoy: interjection used for urgent summons, lament, or call for attention. Kol (all, every) + tsame (Qal active participle of tsama --- to be thirsty): everyone in the ongoing state of thirsting. Kol with a participle = 'everyone who is \[condition\].' The invitation goes to all who are in the condition of thirst --- no ethnic, moral, or pre-election qualification.

SIGNIFICANCEHoy kol-tsame is Thread 7's OT apex. The invitation to come to the waters, wine, and milk without price (Isaiah 55:1) prefigures Revelation 22:17 ('let the one who desires take the water of life without price'). The canon's two broadest invitations use the same image --- water freely available to anyone who thirsts. Thread 7 traces this invitation from Genesis to Revelation's final page.

KEY VERSE / SCRIPTURESIsaiah 55:1 (the foundational universal invitation); Psalm 42:1-2 (the soul thirsts for God); Psalm 63:1.

CROSS-REFERENCESIsaiah 55:1 · Revelation 22:17 (canonical echo) · ὁ θέλων ho thelōn (NT equivalent qualification)