Isaiah 1:12

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֣י תָבֹ֔אוּ לֵרָא֖וֹת פָּנָ֑י מִי־בִקֵּ֥שׁ זֹ֛את מִיֶּדְכֶ֖ם רְמֹ֥ס חֲצֵרָֽי׃

Transliteration

kî tābōʾû lērāʾôt pānāy mî-biqqēš zōʾt miyyedkem rᵉmōs ḥăṣērāy

Grammar Details

*kî*: conjunction - when
*tābōʾû*: verb, qal imperfect, 2nd person masculine plural - you come
*lērāʾôt*: preposition lᵉ- + verb, niphal infinitive construct - to appear before
*pānāy*: noun, masculine plural + 1st person singular suffix - my face
*mî*: interrogative pronoun - who
*biqqēš*: verb, piel perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - has required
*zōʾt*: demonstrative pronoun, feminine singular - this
*miyyedkem*: preposition min + noun, feminine singular + 2nd person masculine plural suffix - from your hand
*rᵉmōs*: verb, qal infinitive construct - to trample
*ḥăṣērāy*: noun, masculine plural + 1st person singular suffix - my courts

Word Meanings

*kî*: when/because/that
*tābōʾû*: you come/enter/appear
*lērāʾôt*: to appear before/to see/to be seen
*pānāy*: my face/my presence
*biqqēš*: required/sought/requested/demanded
*rᵉmōs*: to trample/to tread/to tread down

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Exod 23:17 : 17 Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD.
Exod 34:23 : 23 Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.
Deut 16:16 : 16 Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty:
Ps 40:6 : 6 Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire{H8804)}; mine ears hast thou opened{H8804)}: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required{H8804)}.
Eccl 5:1 : 1 Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.
Isa 58:1-2 : 1 Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins. 2 Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.
Mic 6:8 : 8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
Matt 23:5 : 5 But all their works they do for to be seen of men : they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,

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