Joel 3:8

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the LORD hath spoken it.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּמָכַרְתִּ֞י אֶת־בְּנֵיכֶ֣ם וְאֶת־בְּנֽוֹתֵיכֶ֗ם בְּיַד֙ בְּנֵ֣י יְהוּדָ֔ה וּמְכָר֥וּם לִשְׁבָאיִ֖ם אֶל־גּ֣וֹי רָח֑וֹק כִּ֥י יְהוָ֖ה דִּבֵּֽר

Transliteration

And-māḵartî ʾeṯ-bənêḵem and-ʾeṯ-bənôṯêḵem in-yaḏ bənê yəhûḏāh and-məḵārûm to-šəḇāʾîm to-gôy rāḥôq for YHWH dibbēr

Grammar Details

• *ûmāḵartî*: conjunction + qal perfect 1st person singular - and I will sell
• *ʾeṯ-bənêḵem*: direct object marker + masculine plural noun + 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your sons
• *wəʾeṯ-bənôṯêḵem*: conjunction + direct object marker + feminine plural noun + 2nd person masculine plural suffix - and your daughters
• *bəyaḏ*: preposition + feminine singular construct - into the hand of
• *bənê*: masculine plural construct - sons of
• *yəhûḏāh*: proper noun - Judah
• *ûməḵārûm*: conjunction + qal perfect 3rd person plural + 3rd person masculine plural suffix - and they will sell them
• *lišəḇāʾîm*: preposition + masculine plural noun - to the Sabeans
• *ʾel-gôy*: preposition + masculine singular noun - to a nation
• *rāḥôq*: adjective masculine singular - distant/far
• *kî*: conjunction - for/because
• *YHWH*: proper noun - the LORD
• *dibbēr*: piel perfect 3rd person masculine singular - has spoken

Word Meanings

• *māḵartî*: sell/trade
• *bənêḵem*: your sons/your children
• *bənôṯêḵem*: your daughters
• *yaḏ*: hand/power/control
• *məḵārûm*: sell them/trade them
• *šəḇāʾîm*: Sabeans/people of Sheba
• *gôy*: nation/people
• *rāḥôq*: distant/far/remote
• *dibbēr*: spoken/declared/said

Referenced Verses

• Isa 60:14 : 14 The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee, The city of the LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
• Job 1:15 : 15 And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
• Isa 14:1-2 : 1 For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob. 2 And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
• Jer 6:20 : 20 To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.
• Ezek 23:42 : 42 And a voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and with the men of the common sort were brought Sabeans from the wilderness, which put bracelets upon their hands, and beautiful crowns upon their heads.
• Deut 32:30 : 30 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?
• Judg 2:14 : 14 And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.
• Judg 4:2 : 2 And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host was Sisera, which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles.
• Judg 4:9 : 9 And she said, I will surely go with thee: notwithstanding the journey that thou takest shall not be for thine honour; for the LORD shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.