Amos 4:5

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

and offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim freewill-offerings and publish them: for this pleaseth you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord Jehovah.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְקַטֵּ֤ר מֵֽחָמֵץ֙ תּוֹדָ֔ה וְקִרְא֥וּ נְדָב֖וֹת הַשְׁמִ֑יעוּ כִּ֣י כֵ֤ן אֲהַבְתֶּם֙ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל נְאֻ֖ם אֲדֹנָ֥י יְהוִֽה׃

Transliteration

wǝ-qaṭṭēr from ḥāmēṣ tôdāh wǝ-qirʾû nǝdābôt hašmîʿû for thus ʾahavtem bǝnê Yiśrāʾēl nǝʾum ʾAdōnāy YHWH

Grammar Details

• *wǝ-qaṭṭēr*: conjunction + imperative, masculine singular, piel - and burn/offer
• *ḥāmēṣ*: noun, masculine singular - leavened bread
• *tôdāh*: noun, feminine singular - thanksgiving offering
• *wǝ-qirʾû*: conjunction + imperative, masculine plural, qal - and proclaim/call
• *nǝdābôt*: noun, feminine plural - freewill offerings
• *hašmîʿû*: imperative, masculine plural, hiphil - make heard/proclaim
• *ʾahavtem*: perfect, 2nd person masculine plural - you have loved
• *bǝnê*: noun, masculine plural construct - sons/children of
• *Yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
• *nǝʾum*: construct noun - declaration of
• *ʾAdōnāy*: noun, masculine singular with 1st person suffix - my Lord
• *YHWH*: proper noun - divine name

Word Meanings

• *qaṭṭēr*: burn/offer as incense/smoke
• *ḥāmēṣ*: leavened bread/that which is leavened
• *tôdāh*: thanksgiving offering/confession/praise
• *nǝdābôt*: freewill offerings/voluntary gifts
• *hašmîʿû*: make heard/proclaim/announce

Referenced Verses

• Ps 81:12 : 12 So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, That they might walk in their own counsels.
• Lev 22:18-21 : 18 Speak unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them, Whosoever he be of the house of Israel, or of the sojourners in Israel, that offereth his oblation, whether it be any of their vows, or any of their freewill-offerings, which they offer unto Jehovah for a burnt-offering; 19 that ye may be accepted, [ye shall offer] a male without blemish, of the bullocks, of the sheep, or of the goats. 20 But whatsoever hath a blemish, that shall ye not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you. 21 And whosoever offereth a sacrifice of peace-offerings unto Jehovah to accomplish a vow, or for a freewill-offering, of the herd or of the flock, it shall be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no blemish therein.
• Lev 7:12-13 : 12 If he offer it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mingled with oil, of fine flour soaked. 13 With cakes of leavened bread he shall offer his oblation with the sacrifice of his peace-offerings for thanksgiving.
• Hos 9:1 : 1 Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, like the peoples; for thou hast played the harlot, [departing] from thy God; thou hast loved hire upon every grain-floor.
• Hos 9:10 : 10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the first-ripe in the fig-tree at its first season: but they came to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves unto the shameful thing, and became abominable like that which they loved.
• Matt 6:2 : 2 When therefore thou doest alms, sound not a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have received their reward.
• Matt 15:9 : 9 But in vain do they worship me, Teaching [as their] doctrines the precepts of men.
• Matt 15:13-14 : 13 But he answered and said, Every plant which my heavenly Father planted not, shall be rooted up. 14 Let them alone: they are blind guides. And if the blind guide the blind, both shall fall into a pit.
• Matt 23:23 : 23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye tithe mint and anise and cummin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law, justice, and mercy, and faith: but these ye ought to have done, and not to have left the other undone.
• Rom 1:28 : 28 And even as they {G1381} {G3756} refused to have God in [their] knowledge, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
• 2 Thess 2:10-12 : 10 and with all deceit of unrighteousness for them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God sendeth them a working of error, that they should believe a lie: 12 that they all might be judged who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
• Lev 23:17 : 17 Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave - loaves of two tenth parts [of an ephah]: they shall be of fine flour, they shall be baken with leaven, for first-fruits unto Jehovah.
• Deut 12:6-7 : 6 and thither ye shall bring your burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and the heave-offering of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill-offerings, and the firstlings of your herd and of your flock: 7 and there ye shall eat before Jehovah your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee.