Amos 5:27

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith Jehovah, whose name is the God of hosts.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהִגְלֵיתִ֥י אֶתְכֶ֖ם מֵהָ֣לְאָה לְדַמָּ֑שֶׂק אָמַ֛ר יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵֽי־צְבָא֖וֹת שְׁמֽוֹ׃ פ

Transliteration

And-higlêtî ʾetkhem from-beyond lə-dammāśeq, ʾāmar YHWH ʾĕlōhê-ṣəbāʾôt shəmô

Grammar Details

*higlêtî*: perfect, hiphil, 1st common singular - I will cause to go into exile
*ʾetkhem*: direct object marker + 2nd masculine plural suffix - you
*lə-dammāśeq*: preposition + proper noun - to Damascus
*ʾāmar*: perfect, qal, 3rd masculine singular - he has said
*YHWH*: divine name
*ʾĕlōhê*: construct plural of *ʾĕlōhîm* - God of
*ṣəbāʾôt*: noun, feminine plural - hosts/armies
*shəmô*: noun, masculine singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - his name

Word Meanings

*higlêtî*: I will cause to go into exile/I will deport
*ṣəbāʾôt*: hosts/armies/multitudes

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Referenced Verses

2 Kgs 17:6 : 6 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away unto Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
Acts 7:43 : 43 And ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, And the star of the god Rephan, The figures which ye made to worship them: And I will carry you away beyond Babylon.
Amos 4:13 : 13 For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought; that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth— Jehovah, the God of hosts, is his name.
2 Kgs 15:29 : 29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abel-beth-maacah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria.

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