Joel 1:7

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig-tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

שָׂ֤ם גַּפְנִי֙ לְשַׁמָּ֔ה וּתְאֵנָתִ֖י לִקְצָפָ֑ה חָשֹׂ֤ף חֲשָׂפָהּ֙ וְהִשְׁלִ֔יךְ הִלְבִּ֖ינוּ שָׂרִיגֶֽיהָ׃

Transliteration

Śām gapnî ləšammāh û-ṯəʾēnāṯî liqṣāp̄āh ḥāśōp̄ ḥăśāp̄āh wə-hišlîḵ hilbînû śārîgêhā

Grammar Details

*Śām*: Qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - he has made, placed
*gapnî*: noun, feminine singular construct + 1st person common singular suffix - my vine
*ləšammāh*: preposition + noun, feminine singular - to a desolation
*û*: conjunction - and
*ṯəʾēnāṯî*: noun, feminine singular construct + 1st person common singular suffix - my fig tree
*liqṣāp̄āh*: preposition + noun, feminine singular - to splinters/fragments
*ḥāśōp̄*: Qal infinitive absolute - completely
*ḥăśāp̄āh*: Qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular + 3rd person feminine singular suffix - he has stripped it
*wə*: conjunction - and
*hišlîḵ*: Hiphil perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - he has cast away, thrown down
*hilbînû*: Hiphil perfect, 3rd person plural - they have made white, bleached
*śārîgêhā*: noun, masculine plural construct + 3rd person feminine singular suffix - its branches

Word Meanings

*Śām*: made/placed/set
*gapnî*: my vine/vineyard
*ləšammāh*: to a desolation/waste/horror
*ṯəʾēnāṯî*: my fig tree
*liqṣāp̄āh*: to splinters/fragments/broken pieces
*ḥāśōp̄ ḥăśāp̄āh*: completely stripped it/thoroughly laid bare
*hišlîḵ*: cast away/thrown down/flung
*hilbînû*: made white/bleached/exposed
*śārîgêhā*: its branches/twigs/shoots

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Referenced Verses

Isa 5:6 : 6 and I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned nor hoed; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
Joel 1:12 : 12 The vine is withered, and the fig-tree languisheth; the pomegranate-tree, the palm-tree also, and the apple-tree, even all the trees of the field are withered: for joy is withered away from the sons of men.
Amos 4:9 : 9 I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: the multitude of your gardens and your vineyards and your fig-trees and your olive-trees hath the palmer-worm devoured: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah.
Hab 3:17 : 17 For though the fig-tree shall not flourish, Neither shall fruit be in the vines; The labor of the olive shall fail, And the fields shall yield no food; The flock shall be cut off from the fold, And there shall be no herd in the stalls:
Exod 10:15 : 15 For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing, either tree or herb of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
Ps 105:33 : 33 He smote their vines also and their fig-trees, And brake the trees of their borders.
Isa 24:7 : 7 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merry-hearted do sigh.
Jer 8:13 : 13 I will utterly consume them, saith Jehovah: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig-tree, and the leaf shall fade; and [the things that] I have given them shall pass away from them.
Hos 2:12 : 12 And I will lay waste her vines and her fig-trees, whereof she hath said, These are my hire that my lovers have given me; and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.

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