Joel 1:2

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or in the days of your fathers?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

שִׁמְעוּ־זֹאת֙ הַזְּקֵנִ֔ים וְהַֽאֲזִ֔ינוּ כֹּ֖ל יוֹשְׁבֵ֣י הָאָ֑רֶץ הֶהָ֤יְתָה זֹּאת֙ בִּֽימֵיכֶ֔ם וְאִ֖ם בִּימֵ֥י אֲבֹֽתֵיכֶֽם׃

Transliteration

Šimʿû-zōʾṯ hazzəqēnîm wə-haʾăzînû kōl yôšəḇê hāʾāreṣ hehāyəṯāh zōʾṯ bîmêḵem wə-ʾim bîmê ʾăḇōṯêḵem

Grammar Details

*Šimʿû*: Qal imperative, masculine plural - hear, listen
*zōʾṯ*: demonstrative pronoun, feminine singular - this
*hazzəqēnîm*: definite article + noun, masculine plural - the elders
*wə*: conjunction - or
*haʾăzînû*: Hiphil imperative, masculine plural - give ear, listen carefully
*kōl*: construct state - all of
*yôšəḇê*: Qal participle, masculine plural construct - dwellers/inhabitants of
*hāʾāreṣ*: definite article + noun, feminine singular - the land/earth
*hehāyəṯāh*: interrogative + Qal perfect, 3rd person feminine singular - has it happened?
*bîmêḵem*: preposition + noun, masculine plural construct + 2nd person masculine plural suffix - in your days
*ʾim*: conditional particle - if
*bîmê*: preposition + noun, masculine plural construct - in the days of
*ʾăḇōṯêḵem*: noun, masculine plural construct + 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your fathers

Word Meanings

*Šimʿû*: hear/listen/obey
*haʾăzînû*: give ear/pay attention/listen carefully
*yôšəḇê*: inhabitants/dwellers/residents
*hāʾāreṣ*: the land/earth/ground/territory
*hehāyəṯāh*: has it happened/occurred/taken place?

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Hos 5:1 : 1 Hear this, O ye priests, and hearken, O house of Israel, and give ear, O house of the king; for unto you pertaineth the judgment; for ye have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.
Joel 2:2 : 2 a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, as the dawn spread upon the mountains; a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after them, even to the years of many generations.
Job 8:8 : 8 For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, And apply thyself to that which their fathers have searched out:
Jer 30:7 : 7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.
Matt 13:9 : 9 He that hath ears, let him hear.
Matt 24:21 : 21 for then shall be great tribulation, such as hath not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever shall be.
Rev 2:7 : 7 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches. To him that overcometh, to him will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the {G3319} Paradise of God.
Deut 4:32-35 : 32 For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and from the one end of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been [any such thing] as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it? 33 Did ever a people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live? 34 Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of [another] nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Jehovah your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? 35 Unto thee it was showed, that thou mightest know that Jehovah he is God; there is none else besides him.
Dan 12:1 : 1 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince who standeth for the children of thy people; and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
Hos 4:1 : 1 Hear the word of Jehovah, ye children of Israel; for Jehovah hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.
Joel 1:14 : 14 Sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the old men [and] all the inhabitants of the land unto the house of Jehovah your God, and cry unto Jehovah.
Amos 3:1 : 1 Hear this word that Jehovah hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up out of the land of Egypt, saying,
Amos 4:1 : 1 Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, that oppress the poor, that crush the needy, that say unto their lords, Bring, and let us drink.
Amos 5:1 : 1 Hear ye this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel.
Mic 1:2 : 2 Hear, ye peoples, all of you: hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: and let the Lord Jehovah be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.
Mic 3:1 : 1 And I said, Hear, I pray you, ye heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: is it not for you to know justice?
Mic 3:9 : 9 Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, that abhor justice, and pervert all equity.
Job 12:12 : 12 With aged men is wisdom, And in length of days understanding.
Job 15:10 : 10 With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, Much elder than thy father.
Job 21:7 : 7 Wherefore do the wicked live, Become old, yea, wax mighty in power?
Ps 49:1 : 1 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. Hear this, all ye peoples; Give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world,
Isa 7:17 : 17 Jehovah will bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from [Judah—] [even] the king of Assyria.
Isa 34:1 : 1 Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye peoples: let the earth hear, and the fulness thereof; the world, and all things that come forth from it.
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:

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