Amos 4:3

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And ye shall go out at the breaches, every one straight before her; and ye shall cast [yourselves] into Harmon, saith Jehovah.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּפְרָצִ֥ים תֵּצֶ֖אנָה אִשָּׁ֣ה נֶגְדָּ֑הּ וְהִשְׁלַכְתֶּ֥נָה הַהַרְמ֖וֹנָה נְאֻם־יְהוָֽה׃

Transliteration

û-pǝrāṣîm tēṣeʾnāh ʾiššâ negdāh wǝ-hišlaktennāh the-harmônāh nǝʾum-YHWH

Grammar Details

*û-pǝrāṣîm*: conjunction + noun, masculine plural - and breaches/breaks
*tēṣeʾnāh*: imperfect, 2nd/3rd person feminine plural - you will go out/they will go out
*ʾiššâ*: noun, feminine singular - woman/each woman
*negdāh*: preposition with 3rd person feminine singular suffix - before her/straight ahead of her
*wǝ-hišlaktennāh*: conjunction + perfect, 2nd feminine plural - and you will be cast out
*harmônāh*: preposition + proper noun or common noun - to Harmon/to the palace/to the mountain
*nǝʾum*: construct state - declaration/utterance of
*YHWH*: proper noun - divine name

Word Meanings

*pǝrāṣîm*: breaches/breaks/gaps [in the wall]
*tēṣeʾnāh*: you will go out/they will go out
*ʾiššâ negdāh*: each woman straight ahead/directly forward
*harmônāh*: to Harmon [place name]/to the palace/to the mountain/to the fortress [uncertain term]

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Referenced Verses

Ezek 12:5 : 5 Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.
Ezek 12:12 : 12 And the prince that is among them shall bear upon his shoulder in the dark, and shall go forth: they shall dig through the wall to carry out thereby: he shall cover his face, because he shall not see the land with his eyes.
Zeph 1:18 : 18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of Jehovah's wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he will make an end, yea, a terrible end, of all them that dwell in the land.
Matt 16:26 : 26 For what shall a man be profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and forfeit his life? or what shall a man give in exchange for his life?
2 Kgs 7:7-8 : 7 Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life. 8 And when these lepers came to the outermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and did eat and drink, and carried thence silver, and gold, and raiment, and went and hid it; and they came back, and entered into another tent, and carried thence also, and went and hid it.
2 Kgs 7:15 : 15 And they went after them unto the Jordan: and, lo, all the way was full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. And the messengers returned, and told the king.
2 Kgs 25:4 : 4 Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war [fled] by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden (now the Chaldeans were against the city round about); and [the king] went by the way of the Arabah.
Isa 2:20 : 20 In that day men shall cast away their idols of silver, and their idols of gold, which have been made for them to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
Isa 31:7 : 7 For in that day they shall cast away every man his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin.

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