Amos 6:11

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

For, behold, the LORD commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּי־הִנֵּה יְהוָה מְצַוֶּה וְהִכָּה הַבַּיִת הַגָּדוֹל רְסִיסִים וְהַבַּיִת הַקָּטֹן בְּקִעִים

Transliteration

For- behold YHWH məṣawweh wə- hikkâ the bayit the gādôl rəsîsîm wə- the bayit the qāṭōn bəqîʿîm

Grammar Details

*məṣawweh*: piel participle, masculine singular - commanding
*wə-*: conjunction - and
*hikkâ*: perfect, 3rd person masculine singular, hiphil - he will strike
*bayit*: masculine singular with definite article - the house
*gādôl*: adjective, masculine singular with definite article - the great
*rəsîsîm*: masculine plural - fragments
*qāṭōn*: adjective, masculine singular with definite article - the small
*bəqîʿîm*: masculine plural - cracks/fissures/splinters

Word Meanings

*məṣawweh*: commanding/ordering/instructing
*hikkâ*: strike/smite/hit
*rəsîsîm*: fragments/pieces/rubble
*bəqîʿîm*: cracks/fissures/splits/splinters

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Referenced Verses

Amos 3:15 : 15 And I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith the LORD.
Isa 55:11 : 11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
2 Kgs 25:9 : 9 And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man's house burnt he with fire.
Ps 105:16 : 16 Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread.
Ps 105:31 : 31 He spake, and there came divers sorts of flies, and lice in all their coasts.
Ps 105:34 : 34 He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that without number,
Eccl 10:18 : 18 By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through.
Isa 10:5-6 : 5 O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation. 6 I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Isa 13:3 : 3 I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my highness.
Isa 46:10-11 : 10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure: 11 Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.
Ezek 29:18-20 : 18 Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyrus: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled: yet had he no wages, nor his army, for Tyrus, for the service that he had served against it: 19 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army. 20 I have given him the land of Egypt for his labour wherewith he served against it, because they wrought for me, saith the Lord GOD.
Hos 13:16 : 16 Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.
Amos 3:6-7 : 6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it? 7 Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.
Amos 6:8 : 8 The Lord GOD hath sworn by himself, saith the LORD the God of hosts, I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein.
Amos 9:1 : 1 I saw the Lord standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered.
Amos 9:9 : 9 For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.
Nah 1:14 : 14 And the LORD hath given a commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make thy grave; for thou art vile.
Zech 14:2 : 2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
Luke 19:44 : 44 And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.

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