Amos 2:13

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הִנֵּ֛ה אָנֹכִ֥י מֵעִ֖יק תַּחְתֵּיכֶ֑ם כַּאֲשֶׁ֤ר תָּעִיק֙ הָעֲגָלָ֔ה הַֽמְלֵאָ֥ה לָ֖הּ עָמִֽיר׃

Transliteration

hinnēh ʾānōkî mēʿîq taḥtêkem kaʾăšer tāʿîq hāʿăgālāh haməlēʾāh lāh ʿāmîr

Grammar Details

*hinnēh*: interjection - behold/look
*ʾānōkî*: 1st person singular independent pronoun - I
*mēʿîq*: hiphil participle masculine singular - pressing down
*taḥtêkem*: preposition with 2nd masculine plural suffix - beneath you
*kaʾăšer*: conjunction + relative particle - just as
*tāʿîq*: hiphil imperfect 3rd feminine singular - it presses down
*hāʿăgālāh*: definite article + feminine singular - the cart/wagon
*haməlēʾāh*: definite article + adjective feminine singular - the full
*lāh*: preposition with 3rd feminine singular suffix - to it
*ʿāmîr*: masculine singular - sheaves

Word Meanings

*mēʿîq*: pressing down/weighing down/placing pressure
*taḥtêkem*: beneath you/under you
*tāʿîq*: it presses down/it is weighted down
*ʿăgālāh*: cart/wagon/chariot
*məlēʾāh*: full/filled/laden
*ʿāmîr*: sheaves/bundles of grain/harvested stalks

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Isa 1:14 : 14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
Isa 7:13 : 13 And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?
Isa 43:24 : 24 Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.
Ezek 6:9 : 9 And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
Ezek 16:43 : 43 Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast fretted me in all these things; behold, therefore I also will recompense thy way upon thine head, saith the Lord GOD: and thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine abominations.
Mal 2:17 : 17 Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?
Ps 78:40 : 40 How oft did they provoke{H8686)} him in the wilderness, and grieve{H8686)} him in the desert!

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