Amos 3:13

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord GOD, the God of hosts,

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

שִׁמְע֥וּ וְהָעִ֖ידוּ בְּבֵ֣ית יַֽעֲקֹ֑ב נְאֻם־אֲדֹנָ֥י יְהוִ֖ה אֱלֹהֵ֥י הַצְּבָאֽוֹת׃

Transliteration

Šimʿû wə-hāʿîdû bə-bêt Yaʿăqōb nəʾum-ʾădonāy YHWH ʾĕlōhê ha-ṣəbāʾôt

Grammar Details

*Šimʿû*: Qal imperative, masculine plural - hear/listen
*wə-hāʿîdû*: conjunction + Hiphil imperative, masculine plural - and testify
*bə-bêt*: preposition + noun, masculine singular construct - in house of
*Yaʿăqōb*: proper noun - Jacob
*nəʾum*: construct - declaration of
*ʾădonāy*: divine title - my Lord/Master
*YHWH*: divine name
*ʾĕlōhê*: noun, masculine plural construct - God of
*ha-ṣəbāʾôt*: definite article + noun, feminine plural - the hosts/armies

Word Meanings

*šimʿû*: hear/listen/obey
*hāʿîdû*: testify/bear witness/warn
*bêt*: house/household/family
*nəʾum*: declaration/oracle/utterance
*ʾĕlōhê*: God of
*ṣəbāʾôt*: hosts/armies/multitudes

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Referenced Verses

Deut 8:19 : 19 And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.
Deut 30:18-19 : 18 I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it. 19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
Josh 22:22 : 22 The LORD God of gods, the LORD God of gods, he knoweth, and Israel he shall know; if it be in rebellion, or if in transgression against the LORD ,(save us not this day,)
2 Kgs 17:13 : 13 Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.
2 Kgs 17:15 : 15 And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.
2 Chr 24:19 : 19 Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto the LORD; and they testified against them: but they would not give ear.
Isa 1:24 : 24 Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:
Ezek 2:7 : 7 And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear: for they are most rebellious.
Amos 5:27 : 27 Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.
Acts 2:40 : 40 And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.
Acts 18:5-6 : 5 And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ. 6 And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his raiment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.
Acts 20:21 : 21 Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
Eph 4:17 : 17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
1 Thess 4:6 : 6 That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.

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