Amos 5:3

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

For thus saith the Lord GOD; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth by an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֣י כֹ֤ה אָמַר֙ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֔ה הָעִ֛יר הַיֹּצֵ֥את אֶ֖לֶף תַּשְׁאִ֣יר מֵאָ֑ה וְהַיּוֹצֵ֥את מֵאָ֛ה תַּשְׁאִ֥יר עֲשָׂרָ֖ה לְבֵ֥ית יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ ס

Transliteration

For thus ʾāmar ʾădōnāy YHWH: hā-ʿîr ha-yōṣēʾt thousand tashʾîr hundred, and-ha-yōṣēʾt hundred tashʾîr ten lə-bêt yiśrāʾēl.

Grammar Details

*ʾāmar*: perfect, qal, 3rd masculine singular - he has said
*ʾădōnāy*: noun with 1st person plural suffix used as divine title - my Lord
*YHWH*: divine name
*hā-ʿîr*: definite article + noun, feminine singular - the city
*ha-yōṣēʾt*: definite article + participle, qal, feminine singular - the one going out
*tashʾîr*: imperfect, hiphil, 3rd feminine singular - it will leave/remain
*lə-bêt*: preposition + construct form, masculine - to/for house of

Word Meanings

*ʿîr*: city/town
*yōṣēʾt*: going out/marching out/sending out
*tashʾîr*: will leave/will have remaining

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Referenced Verses

Deut 4:27 : 27 And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you.
Deut 28:62 : 62 And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the LORD thy God.
Isa 1:9 : 9 Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.
Isa 6:13 : 13 But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.
Isa 10:22 : 22 For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.
Ezek 12:16 : 16 But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among the heathen whither they come; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Amos 6:9 : 9 And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die.
Rom 9:27 : 27 Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:

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