Micah 5:13

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

and I will cut off thy graven images and thy pillars out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thy hands;

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְנָתַשְׁתִּ֥י אֲשֵׁירֶ֖יךָ מִקִּרְבֶּ֑ךָ וְהִשְׁמַדְתִּ֖י עָרֶֽיךָ׃

Transliteration

wə-nātaštî ʾăšêreykā from-qirbekā wə-hišmadtî ʿāreykā

Grammar Details

*wə-nātaštî*: conjunction + perfect, 1st person singular - and I will pluck up
*ʾăšêreykā*: masculine plural noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your Asherim
*qirbekā*: masculine singular noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your midst
*wə-hišmadtî*: conjunction + hiphil perfect, 1st person singular - and I will destroy
*ʿāreykā*: feminine plural noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your cities

Word Meanings

*nātaštî*: I will pluck up/I will uproot/I will tear out
*ʾăšêreykā*: your Asherim/your sacred poles/your wooden images
*hišmadtî*: I will destroy/I will demolish/I will annihilate

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ezek 6:9 : 9 And those of you that escape shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captive, how that I have been broken with their lewd heart, which hath departed from me, and with they eyes, which play the harlot after their idols: and they shall loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
Ezek 36:25 : 25 And I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
Ezek 37:23 : 23 neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions; but I will save them out of all their dwelling-places, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
Hos 2:16-17 : 16 And it shall be at that day, saith Jehovah, that thou shalt call me Ishi, and shalt call me no more Baali. 17 For I will take away the names of the Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be mentioned by their name.
Hos 14:3 : 3 Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, [Ye are] our gods; for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.
Hos 14:8 : 8 Ephraim [shall say], What have I to do any more with idols? I have answered, and will regard him: I am like a green fir-tree; from me is thy fruit found.
Zech 13:2 : 2 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith Jehovah of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered; and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.
Isa 2:8 : 8 Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made.
Isa 17:7-8 : 7 In that day shall men look unto their Maker, and their eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel. 8 And they shall not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they have respect to that which their fingers have made, either the Asherim, or the sun-images.

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