Joel 1:7

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

שָׂ֤ם גַּפְנִי֙ לְשַׁמָּ֔ה וּתְאֵנָתִ֖י לִקְצָפָ֑ה חָשֹׂ֤ף חֲשָׂפָהּ֙ וְהִשְׁלִ֔יךְ הִלְבִּ֖ינוּ שָׂרִיגֶֽיהָ׃

Transliteration

Śām gapnî ləšammāh û-ṯəʾēnāṯî liqṣāp̄āh ḥāśōp̄ ḥăśāp̄āh wə-hišlîḵ hilbînû śārîgêhā

Grammar Details

*Śām*: Qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - he has made, placed
*gapnî*: noun, feminine singular construct + 1st person common singular suffix - my vine
*ləšammāh*: preposition + noun, feminine singular - to a desolation
*û*: conjunction - and
*ṯəʾēnāṯî*: noun, feminine singular construct + 1st person common singular suffix - my fig tree
*liqṣāp̄āh*: preposition + noun, feminine singular - to splinters/fragments
*ḥāśōp̄*: Qal infinitive absolute - completely
*ḥăśāp̄āh*: Qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular + 3rd person feminine singular suffix - he has stripped it
*wə*: conjunction - and
*hišlîḵ*: Hiphil perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - he has cast away, thrown down
*hilbînû*: Hiphil perfect, 3rd person plural - they have made white, bleached
*śārîgêhā*: noun, masculine plural construct + 3rd person feminine singular suffix - its branches

Word Meanings

*Śām*: made/placed/set
*gapnî*: my vine/vineyard
*ləšammāh*: to a desolation/waste/horror
*ṯəʾēnāṯî*: my fig tree
*liqṣāp̄āh*: to splinters/fragments/broken pieces
*ḥāśōp̄ ḥăśāp̄āh*: completely stripped it/thoroughly laid bare
*hišlîḵ*: cast away/thrown down/flung
*hilbînû*: made white/bleached/exposed
*śārîgêhā*: its branches/twigs/shoots

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Referenced Verses

Isa 5:6 : 6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
Joel 1:12 : 12 The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.
Amos 4:9 : 9 I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
Hab 3:17 : 17 Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:
Exod 10:15 : 15 For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
Ps 105:33 : 33 He smote their vines also and their fig trees; and brake the trees of their coasts.
Isa 24:7 : 7 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.
Jer 8:13 : 13 I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them.
Hos 2:12 : 12 And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.

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