Joel 1:2

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

שִׁמְעוּ־זֹאת֙ הַזְּקֵנִ֔ים וְהַֽאֲזִ֔ינוּ כֹּ֖ל יוֹשְׁבֵ֣י הָאָ֑רֶץ הֶהָ֤יְתָה זֹּאת֙ בִּֽימֵיכֶ֔ם וְאִ֖ם בִּימֵ֥י אֲבֹֽתֵיכֶֽם׃

Transliteration

Šimʿû-zōʾṯ hazzəqēnîm wə-haʾăzînû kōl yôšəḇê hāʾāreṣ hehāyəṯāh zōʾṯ bîmêḵem wə-ʾim bîmê ʾăḇōṯêḵem

Grammar Details

*Šimʿû*: Qal imperative, masculine plural - hear, listen
*zōʾṯ*: demonstrative pronoun, feminine singular - this
*hazzəqēnîm*: definite article + noun, masculine plural - the elders
*wə*: conjunction - or
*haʾăzînû*: Hiphil imperative, masculine plural - give ear, listen carefully
*kōl*: construct state - all of
*yôšəḇê*: Qal participle, masculine plural construct - dwellers/inhabitants of
*hāʾāreṣ*: definite article + noun, feminine singular - the land/earth
*hehāyəṯāh*: interrogative + Qal perfect, 3rd person feminine singular - has it happened?
*bîmêḵem*: preposition + noun, masculine plural construct + 2nd person masculine plural suffix - in your days
*ʾim*: conditional particle - if
*bîmê*: preposition + noun, masculine plural construct - in the days of
*ʾăḇōṯêḵem*: noun, masculine plural construct + 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your fathers

Word Meanings

*Šimʿû*: hear/listen/obey
*haʾăzînû*: give ear/pay attention/listen carefully
*yôšəḇê*: inhabitants/dwellers/residents
*hāʾāreṣ*: the land/earth/ground/territory
*hehāyəṯāh*: has it happened/occurred/taken place?

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Hos 5:1 : 1 Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment is toward you, because ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.
Joel 2:2 : 2 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.
Job 8:8 : 8 For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:
Jer 30:7 : 7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.
Matt 13:9 : 9 Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Matt 24:21 : 21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
Rev 2:7 : 7 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.
Deut 4:32-35 : 32 For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it? 33 Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live? 34 Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? 35 Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God; there is none else beside him.
Dan 12:1 : 1 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
Hos 4:1 : 1 Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
Joel 1:14 : 14 Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD,
Amos 3:1 : 1 Hear this word that the LORD hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying,
Amos 4:1 : 1 Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.
Amos 5:1 : 1 Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.
Mic 1:2 : 2 Hear, all ye people; hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: and let the Lord GOD be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.
Mic 3:1 : 1 And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment?
Mic 3:9 : 9 Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.
Job 12:12 : 12 With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.
Job 15:10 : 10 With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.
Job 21:7 : 7 Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
Ps 49:1 : 1 To the chief Musician{H8764)}, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. Hear{H8798)} this, all ye people; give ear{H8685)}, all ye inhabitants{H8802)} of the world:
Isa 7:17 : 17 The LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.
Isa 34:1 : 1 Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it.
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:

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