Amos 8:13

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

In that day shall the fair virgins and the young men faint for thirst.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בַּיּ֨וֹם הַה֜וּא תִּ֠תְעַלַּפְנָה הַבְּתוּלֹ֧ת הַיָּפ֛וֹת וְהַבַּחוּרִ֖ים בַּצָּמָֽא׃

Transliteration

In the day the that titʿallap̄nâ the bətûlōt the yāp̄ôt and the baḥûrîm with the ṣāmāʾ

Grammar Details

*bayyôm*: preposition + definite article + noun, masculine singular - in the day
*hahûʾ*: definite article + demonstrative pronoun - that
*titʿallap̄nâ*: hithpael imperfect, 3rd feminine plural - they will faint
*habbətûlōt*: definite article + noun, feminine plural - the virgins
*hayyāp̄ôt*: definite article + adjective, feminine plural - the beautiful/fair
*wə-*: conjunction - and
*habbaḥûrîm*: definite article + noun, masculine plural - the young men
*baṣṣāmāʾ*: preposition + definite article + noun, masculine singular - with/from the thirst

Word Meanings

*titʿallap̄nâ*: they will faint/they will swoon/they will be overwhelmed
*bətûlōt*: virgins/maidens/young women
*yāp̄ôt*: beautiful/fair/lovely
*baḥûrîm*: young men/choice young men/youths
*ṣāmāʾ*: thirst/drought

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Referenced Verses

Hos 2:3 : 3 lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.
Lam 1:18 : 18 Jehovah is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: Hear, I pray you, all ye peoples, and behold my sorrow: My virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.
Lam 2:21 : 21 The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets; My virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword: Thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; Thou hast slaughtered, [and] not pitied.
Lam 2:10 : 10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, they keep silence; They have cast up dust upon their heads; They have girded themselves with sackcloth: The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
Zech 9:17 : 17 For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! grain shall make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.
Deut 32:25 : 25 [Without] [shall the sword] [bereave, And in the chambers] [terror;] [It shall destroy] both young man and virgin, The suckling with the man of gray hairs.
Ps 63:1 : 1 A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, thou art my God; earnestly will I seek thee: My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee, In a dry and weary land, where no water is.
Ps 144:12-15 : 12 When our sons shall be as plants grown up in their youth, And our daughters as corner-stones hewn after the fashion of a palace; 13 [ When] our garners are full, affording all manner of store, [And] our sheep bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our fields; 14 [ When] our oxen are well laden; [When there is] no breaking in, and no going forth, And no outcry in our streets: 15 Happy is the people that is in such a case; [Yea], happy is the people whose God is Jehovah.
Isa 40:30 : 30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
Isa 41:17-20 : 17 The poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst; I, Jehovah, will answer them, I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them. 18 I will open rivers on the bare heights, and fountains in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water. 19 I will put in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia, and the myrtle, and the oil - tree; I will set in the desert the fir-tree, the pine, and the box-tree together: 20 that they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of Jehovah hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.
Jer 48:18 : 18 O thou daughter that dwellest in Dibon, come down from thy glory, and sit in thirst; for the destroyer of Moab is come up against thee, he hath destroyed thy strongholds.

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