Amos 8:6

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the wheat?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לִקְנ֤וֹת בַּכֶּ֙סֶף֙ דַּלִּ֔ים וְאֶבְי֖וֹן בַּעֲב֣וּר נַעֲלָ֑יִם וּמַפַּ֥ל בַּ֖ר נַשְׁבִּֽיר׃

Transliteration

To liqnôt with the kesep dallîm and ʾebyôn for baʿăbûr naʿălāyim and mappal bar našbîr

Grammar Details

*liqnôt*: preposition + qal infinitive construct - to buy/acquire
*bakkesep*: preposition + definite article + noun, masculine singular - with the silver/money
*dallîm*: adjective used as noun, masculine plural - poor/weak ones
*wə-*: conjunction - and
*ʾebyôn*: noun, masculine singular - needy/poor person
*baʿăbûr*: preposition + noun, masculine singular - for the sake of/because of
*naʿălāyim*: noun, feminine dual - pair of sandals
*û-*: conjunction - and
*mappal*: noun, masculine singular construct - refuse/fallen part of
*bar*: noun, masculine singular - grain
*našbîr*: hiphil imperfect, 1st plural - we will sell

Word Meanings

*liqnôt*: to buy/to purchase/to acquire
*kesep*: silver/money
*dallîm*: poor/weak/low/needy ones
*ʾebyôn*: needy/poor/destitute person
*baʿăbûr*: for/because of/on account of
*naʿălāyim*: pair of sandals/shoes
*mappal*: refuse/fallings/chaff/sweepings
*bar*: grain/corn
*našbîr*: we will sell/we will market

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Referenced Verses

Amos 2:6 : 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—
Amos 8:4 : 4 Hear this, O ye that would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
Lev 25:39-42 : 39 And if thy brother be waxed poor with thee, and sell himself unto thee; thou shalt not make him to serve as a bond-servant. 40 As a hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee; he shall serve with thee unto the year of jubilee: 41 then shall he go out from thee, he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return. 42 For they are my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.
Neh 5:1-5 : 1 Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews. 2 For there were that said, We, our sons and our daughters, are many: let us get grain, that we may eat and live. 3 Some also there were that said, We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses: let us get grain, because of the dearth. 4 There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute [upon] our fields and our vineyards. 5 Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought into bondage [already]: neither is it in our power to help it; for other men have our fields and our vineyards.
Neh 5:8 : 8 And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, that were sold unto the nations; and would ye even sell your brethren, and should they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found never a word.
Joel 3:3 : 3 and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.
Joel 3:6 : 6 and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem unto the sons of the Grecians, that ye may remove them far from their border;

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