Amos 7:4

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and, behold, the Lord GOD called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כֹּ֤ה הִרְאַ֙נִי֙ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֔ה וְהִנֵּ֥ה קֹרֵ֛א לָרִ֥ב בָּאֵ֖שׁ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֑ה וַתֹּ֙אכַל֙ אֶת־תְּה֣וֹם רַבָּ֔ה וְאָכְלָ֖ה אֶת־הַחֵֽלֶק׃

Transliteration

Thus hirʾanî ʾădōnāy YHWH and-hinnēh qōrēʾ to-rîb with-the-ʾēš ʾădōnāy YHWH and-tōʾkal ʾet-tehôm rabbāh and-ʾākelāh ʾet-the-ḥēleq.

Grammar Details

*kōh*: adverb - thus, in this manner
*hirʾanî*: hiphil perfect, 3rd masc. singular with 1st singular suffix - he showed me
*ʾădōnāy*: noun, masc. singular construct with 1st singular suffix - my Lord
*YHWH*: proper noun - the divine name
*hinnēh*: demonstrative particle - behold, look
*qōrēʾ*: qal participle, masc. singular - calling
*rîb*: qal infinitive construct with prefixed preposition - to contend/dispute
*ʾēš*: noun, fem. singular with prefixed preposition - with fire
*tōʾkal*: qal imperfect, 3rd fem. singular with consecutive waw - and it consumed
*ʾet*: direct object marker
*tehôm*: noun, fem. singular - deep, abyss
*rabbāh*: adjective, fem. singular - great
*ʾākelāh*: qal perfect, 3rd fem. singular with consecutive waw - and it devoured
*ḥēleq*: noun, masc. singular with definite article - the portion/part

Word Meanings

*qōrēʾ*: calling/summoning/proclaiming
*rîb*: contend/dispute/judge
*tehôm*: deep/abyss/great deep
*ḥēleq*: portion/part/territory

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Referenced Verses

Isa 66:15-16 : 15 For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire. 16 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
Amos 7:1 : 1 Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings.
Amos 7:7 : 7 Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the Lord stood upon a wall made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand.
Mic 1:4 : 4 And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.
Nah 1:6 : 6 Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.
Heb 1:7 : 7 And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.
Rev 4:1 : 1 After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.
Exod 9:23-24 : 23 And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt. 24 So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
Lev 10:2 : 2 And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD.
Num 16:35 : 35 And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.
Deut 32:22 : 22 For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
Isa 27:4 : 4 Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.
Jer 4:4 : 4 Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
Jer 21:12 : 12 O house of David, thus saith the LORD; Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
Joel 2:30 : 30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
Amos 1:4 : 4 But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of Benhadad.
Amos 1:7 : 7 But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall devour the palaces thereof:
Amos 4:11 : 11 I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
Amos 5:6 : 6 Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel.

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