Haggai 1:7

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כֹּ֥ה אָמַ֖ר יְהוָ֣ה צְבָא֑וֹת שִׂ֥ימוּ לְבַבְכֶ֖ם עַל־דַּרְכֵיכֶֽם

Transliteration

Thus ʾāmar YHWH ṣəḇāʾôt: śîmû your ləḇaḇḵem to your darḵêḵem

Grammar Details

*kōh*: adverb - thus, so
*ʾāmar*: verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - said/has said
*YHWH*: proper noun, divine name
*ṣəḇāʾôt*: noun, masculine plural construct - of hosts/armies
*śîmû*: verb, qal imperative, masculine plural - set/place/consider
*ləḇaḇḵem*: noun, masculine singular construct with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your heart
*darḵêḵem*: noun, feminine plural construct with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your ways

Word Meanings

*śîmû* *ləḇaḇḵem*: set your heart/consider carefully/pay attention
*darḵêḵem*: your ways/actions/conduct

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Hag 1:5 : 5 Now therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways.
Ps 119:59-60 : 59 I thought on my ways, And turned my feet unto thy testimonies. 60 I made haste, and delayed not, To observe thy commandments.
Isa 28:10 : 10 For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there a little.
Phil 3:1 : 1 Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not irksome, but for you it is safe.

Similar Verses (AI)

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Hag 1:2-6
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2Thus speaketh Jehovah of hosts, saying, This people say, It is not the time [for us] to come, the time for Jehovah's house to be built.
3Then came the word of Jehovah by Haggai the prophet, saying,
4Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your ceiled houses, while this house lieth waste?
5Now therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways.
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3Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
4Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of Jehovah, the temple of Jehovah, the temple of Jehovah, are these.
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8Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith Jehovah.
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Zech 1:3-4
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3Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Return unto me, saith Jehovah of hosts, and I will return unto you, saith Jehovah of hosts.
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Mal 3:7
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Mal 1:9
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Hag 2:17-18
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7Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith Jehovah; that ye may provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your own hurt.
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Jer 6:16
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13Your words have been stout against me, saith Jehovah. Yet ye say, What have we spoken against thee?
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Jer 18:11
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