Joel 3:8

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

and I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the men of Sheba, to a nation far off: for Jehovah hath spoken it.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּמָכַרְתִּ֞י אֶת־בְּנֵיכֶ֣ם וְאֶת־בְּנֽוֹתֵיכֶ֗ם בְּיַד֙ בְּנֵ֣י יְהוּדָ֔ה וּמְכָר֥וּם לִשְׁבָאיִ֖ם אֶל־גּ֣וֹי רָח֑וֹק כִּ֥י יְהוָ֖ה דִּבֵּֽר

Transliteration

And-māḵartî ʾeṯ-bənêḵem and-ʾeṯ-bənôṯêḵem in-yaḏ bənê yəhûḏāh and-məḵārûm to-šəḇāʾîm to-gôy rāḥôq for YHWH dibbēr

Grammar Details

• *ûmāḵartî*: conjunction + qal perfect 1st person singular - and I will sell
• *ʾeṯ-bənêḵem*: direct object marker + masculine plural noun + 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your sons
• *wəʾeṯ-bənôṯêḵem*: conjunction + direct object marker + feminine plural noun + 2nd person masculine plural suffix - and your daughters
• *bəyaḏ*: preposition + feminine singular construct - into the hand of
• *bənê*: masculine plural construct - sons of
• *yəhûḏāh*: proper noun - Judah
• *ûməḵārûm*: conjunction + qal perfect 3rd person plural + 3rd person masculine plural suffix - and they will sell them
• *lišəḇāʾîm*: preposition + masculine plural noun - to the Sabeans
• *ʾel-gôy*: preposition + masculine singular noun - to a nation
• *rāḥôq*: adjective masculine singular - distant/far
• *kî*: conjunction - for/because
• *YHWH*: proper noun - the LORD
• *dibbēr*: piel perfect 3rd person masculine singular - has spoken

Word Meanings

• *māḵartî*: sell/trade
• *bənêḵem*: your sons/your children
• *bənôṯêḵem*: your daughters
• *yaḏ*: hand/power/control
• *məḵārûm*: sell them/trade them
• *šəḇāʾîm*: Sabeans/people of Sheba
• *gôy*: nation/people
• *rāḥôq*: distant/far/remote
• *dibbēr*: spoken/declared/said

Referenced Verses

• Isa 60:14 : 14 And the sons of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee The city of Jehovah, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
• Job 1:15 : 15 and the Sabeans fell [upon them], and took them away: yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
• Isa 14:1-2 : 1 For Jehovah will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the sojourner shall join himself with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob. 2 And the peoples shall take them, and bring them to their place; and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of Jehovah for servants and for handmaids: and they shall take them captive whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
• Jer 6:20 : 20 To what purpose cometh there to me frankincense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt-offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing unto me.
• Ezek 23:42 : 42 And the voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and with men of the common sort were brought drunkards from the wilderness; and they put bracelets upon the hands of them twain, and beautiful crowns upon their heads.
• Deut 32:30 : 30 How should one chase a thousand, And two put ten thousand to flight, Except their Rock had sold them, And Jehovah had delivered them up?
• Judg 2:14 : 14 And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that despoiled them; and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.
• Judg 4:2 : 2 And Jehovah sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth of the Nations.
• Judg 4:9 : 9 And she said, I will surely go with you: nevertheless, the journey that you take shall not be for your honor; for Jehovah will sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.