Amos 8:4

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

שִׁמְעוּ־זֹ֕את הַשֹּׁאֲפִ֖ים אֶבְי֑וֹן וְלַשְׁבִּ֖ית *ענוי־**עֲנִיֵּי־אָֽרֶץ׃

Transliteration

šimʿû this the šōʾăpîm ʾebyôn and wəlašbît ʿăniyyê ʾāreṣ

Grammar Details

*šimʿû*: qal imperative, masculine plural - hear/listen
*zōʾt*: demonstrative pronoun, feminine singular - this
*haššōʾăpîm*: definite article + qal participle, masculine plural - the ones panting after/trampling
*ʾebyôn*: noun, masculine singular - needy/poor person
*wə-*: conjunction - and
*lašbît*: preposition + hiphil infinitive construct - to cause to cease/destroy
*ʿăniyyê*: noun, masculine plural construct - poor/afflicted of
*ʾāreṣ*: noun, feminine singular - land/earth

Word Meanings

*šōʾăpîm*: panting after/trampling/crushing/swallowing up
*ʾebyôn*: needy/poor/destitute person
*lašbît*: to cause to cease/to make an end of/to destroy
*ʿăniyyê*: poor/afflicted/humble
*ʾāreṣ*: land/earth/ground/country

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Referenced Verses

Ps 14:4 : 4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
Prov 30:14 : 14 There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
Amos 5:11 : 11 Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
Amos 7:16 : 16 Now therefore hear thou the word of the LORD: Thou sayest, Prophesy not against Israel, and drop not thy word against the house of Isaac.
Matt 23:13 : 13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
Jas 5:6 : 6 Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.
Isa 1:10 : 10 Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
Isa 28:14 : 14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
Isa 32:6-7 : 6 For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail. 7 The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.
Jer 5:21 : 21 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:
Jer 28:15 : 15 Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah; The LORD hath not sent thee; but thou makest this people to trust in a lie.
Amos 2:6-7 : 6 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes; 7 That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name:
Ps 56:1 : 1 To the chief Musician{H8764)} upon Jonathelemrechokim, Michtam of David, when the Philistines took{H8800)} him in Gath. Be merciful{H8798)} unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up{H8804)}; he fighting{H8802)} daily oppresseth{H8799)} me.
Ps 140:12 : 12 I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.
1 Kgs 22:19 : 19 And he said, Hear thou therefore the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.
Ps 12:5 : 5 For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.

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