Amos 8:4

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Hear this, O ye that would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

שִׁמְעוּ־זֹ֕את הַשֹּׁאֲפִ֖ים אֶבְי֑וֹן וְלַשְׁבִּ֖ית *ענוי־**עֲנִיֵּי־אָֽרֶץ׃

Transliteration

šimʿû this the šōʾăpîm ʾebyôn and wəlašbît ʿăniyyê ʾāreṣ

Grammar Details

*šimʿû*: qal imperative, masculine plural - hear/listen
*zōʾt*: demonstrative pronoun, feminine singular - this
*haššōʾăpîm*: definite article + qal participle, masculine plural - the ones panting after/trampling
*ʾebyôn*: noun, masculine singular - needy/poor person
*wə-*: conjunction - and
*lašbît*: preposition + hiphil infinitive construct - to cause to cease/destroy
*ʿăniyyê*: noun, masculine plural construct - poor/afflicted of
*ʾāreṣ*: noun, feminine singular - land/earth

Word Meanings

*šōʾăpîm*: panting after/trampling/crushing/swallowing up
*ʾebyôn*: needy/poor/destitute person
*lašbît*: to cause to cease/to make an end of/to destroy
*ʿăniyyê*: poor/afflicted/humble
*ʾāreṣ*: land/earth/ground/country

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ps 14:4 : 4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people [as] they eat bread, And call not upon Jehovah?
Prov 30:14 : 14 There is a generation whose teeth are [as] swords, and their jaw teeth [as] knives, To devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
Amos 5:11 : 11 Forasmuch therefore as ye trample upon the poor, and take exactions from him of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink the wine thereof.
Amos 7:16 : 16 Now therefore hear thou the word of Jehovah: Thou sayest, Prophesy not against Israel, and drop not [thy word] against the house of Isaac;
Matt 23:13 : 13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye enter not in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering in to enter.
Jas 5:6 : 6 Ye have condemned, ye have killed the righteous [one]; he doth not resist you.
Isa 1:10 : 10 Hear the word of Jehovah, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
Isa 28:14 : 14 Wherefore hear the word of Jehovah, ye scoffers, that rule this people that is in Jerusalem:
Isa 32:6-7 : 6 For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise profaneness, and to utter error against Jehovah, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail. 7 And the instruments of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the meek with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.
Jer 5:21 : 21 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; that have eyes, and see not; that have ears, and hear not:
Jer 28:15 : 15 Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah: Jehovah hath not sent thee; but thou makest this people to trust in a lie.
Amos 2:6-7 : 6 Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes— 7 they that pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father go unto the [same] maiden, to profane my holy name:
Ps 56:1 : 1 For the Chief Musician; set to Jonath elem rehokim. [A Psalm] of David. Michtam; when the Philistines took him in Gath. Be merciful unto me, O God; For man would swallow me up: All the day long he fighting oppresseth me.
Ps 140:12 : 12 I know that Jehovah will maintain the cause of the afflicted, And justice for the needy.
1 Kgs 22:19 : 19 And [Micaiah] said, Therefore hear thou the word of Jehovah: I saw Jehovah sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.
Ps 12:5 : 5 Because of the oppression of the poor, because of the sighing of the needy, Now will I arise, saith Jehovah; I will set him in the safety he panteth for.

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75%
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Jer 5:28
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Ezek 18:12
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Ezek 22:12
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Prov 14:31
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Job 22:9
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Zech 11:4-5
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4Thus said Jehovah my God: Feed the flock of slaughter;
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Job 22:7
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Prov 30:14
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