Amos 6:11

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For, behold, Jehovah commandeth, and the great house shall be smitten with breaches, and the little house with clefts.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּי־הִנֵּה יְהוָה מְצַוֶּה וְהִכָּה הַבַּיִת הַגָּדוֹל רְסִיסִים וְהַבַּיִת הַקָּטֹן בְּקִעִים

Transliteration

For- behold YHWH məṣawweh wə- hikkâ the bayit the gādôl rəsîsîm wə- the bayit the qāṭōn bəqîʿîm

Grammar Details

*məṣawweh*: piel participle, masculine singular - commanding
*wə-*: conjunction - and
*hikkâ*: perfect, 3rd person masculine singular, hiphil - he will strike
*bayit*: masculine singular with definite article - the house
*gādôl*: adjective, masculine singular with definite article - the great
*rəsîsîm*: masculine plural - fragments
*qāṭōn*: adjective, masculine singular with definite article - the small
*bəqîʿîm*: masculine plural - cracks/fissures/splinters

Word Meanings

*məṣawweh*: commanding/ordering/instructing
*hikkâ*: strike/smite/hit
*rəsîsîm*: fragments/pieces/rubble
*bəqîʿîm*: cracks/fissures/splits/splinters

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Referenced Verses

Amos 3:15 : 15 And I will smite the winter - house with the summer - house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith Jehovah.
Isa 55:11 : 11 so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
2 Kgs 25:9 : 9 And he burnt the house of Jehovah, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burnt he with fire.
Ps 105:16 : 16 And he called for a famine upon the land; He brake the whole staff of bread.
Ps 105:31 : 31 He spake, and there came swarms of flies, And lice in all their borders.
Ps 105:34 : 34 He spake, and the locust came, And the grasshopper, and that without number,
Eccl 10:18 : 18 By slothfulness the roof sinketh in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaketh.
Isa 10:5-6 : 5 Ho Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, the staff in whose hand is mine indignation! 6 I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Isa 13:3 : 3 I have commanded my consecrated ones, yea, I have called my mighty men for mine anger, even my proudly exulting ones.
Isa 46:10-11 : 10 declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not [yet] done; saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure; 11 calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country; yea, I have spoken, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed, I will also do it.
Ezek 29:18-20 : 18 Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was worn; yet had he no wages, nor his army, from Tyre, for the service that he had served against it. 19 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall carry off her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army. 20 I have given him the land of Egypt as his recompense for which he served, because they wrought for me, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Hos 13:16 : 16 Samaria shall bear her guilt; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword; their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.
Amos 3:6-7 : 6 Shall the trumpet be blown in a city, and the people not be afraid? shall evil befall a city, and Jehovah hath not done it? 7 Surely the Lord Jehovah will do nothing, except he reveal his secret unto his servants the prophets.
Amos 6:8 : 8 The Lord Jehovah hath sworn by himself, saith Jehovah, the God of hosts: I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces; therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein.
Amos 9:1 : 1 I saw the Lord standing beside the altar: and he said, Smite the capitals, that the thresholds may shake; and break them in pieces on the head of all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: there shall not one of them flee away, and there shall not one of them escape.
Amos 9:9 : 9 For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, like as [grain] is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least kernel fall upon the earth.
Nah 1:14 : 14 And Jehovah hath given commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image; I will make thy grave; for thou art vile.
Zech 14:2 : 2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
Luke 19:44 : 44 and shall dash thee to the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.

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