Micah 3:2

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

שֹׂ֥נְאֵי ט֖וֹב וְאֹ֣הֲבֵי *רעה **רָ֑ע גֹּזְלֵ֤י עוֹרָם֙ מֵֽעֲלֵיהֶ֔ם וּשְׁאֵרָ֖ם מֵעַ֥ל עַצְמוֹתָֽם׃

Transliteration

śōnʾê ṭôb and-ʾōhăbê rāʿ gōzlê ʿôrām from-upon-them and-šĕʾērām from-upon ʿaṣmôtām

Grammar Details

*śōnʾê*: masculine plural construct participle - haters of
*ṭôb*: masculine singular noun/adjective - good
*ʾōhăbê*: masculine plural construct participle - lovers of
*rāʿ*: masculine singular noun/adjective - evil
*gōzlê*: masculine plural construct participle - plunderers of/those who tear off
*ʿôrām*: masculine singular noun with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their skin
*šĕʾērām*: masculine singular noun with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their flesh
*ʿaṣmôtām*: feminine plural noun with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their bones

Word Meanings

*śōnʾê*: haters of/those who hate
*ṭôb*: good/goodness/welfare
*ʾōhăbê*: lovers of/those who love
*rāʿ*: evil/bad/wickedness
*gōzlê*: plunderers/robbers/those who tear off
*šĕʾērām*: their flesh/meat/food/kin

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Referenced Verses

Ezek 22:27 : 27 Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
Ps 53:4 : 4 Have the workers{H8802)} of iniquity no knowledge{H8804)}? who eat up{H8802)} my people as they eat{H8804)} bread: they have not called{H8804)} upon God.
Ezek 34:3 : 3 Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock.
Amos 5:10-14 : 10 They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly. 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. 12 For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right. 13 Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time. 14 Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.
Amos 8:4-6 : 4 Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, 5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit? 6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
Zeph 3:3 : 3 Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
Zech 11:4-5 : 4 Thus saith the LORD my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter; 5 Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed be the LORD; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not.
Luke 19:14 : 14 But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.
John 7:7 : 7 The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
John 15:18-19 : 18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. 19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
John 15:23-24 : 23 He that hateth me hateth my Father also. 24 If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
John 18:40 : 40 Then cried they all again, saying, Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber.
Acts 7:51-52 : 51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye. 52 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
Rom 1:32 : 32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
Rom 12:9 : 9 Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
2 Tim 3:3 : 3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
Ps 139:21-22 : 21 Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? 22 I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.
Prov 28:4 : 4 They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.
Isa 3:15 : 15 What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
1 Kgs 21:20 : 20 And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the LORD.
1 Kgs 22:6-8 : 6 Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall I go against Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for the Lord shall deliver it into the hand of the king. 7 And Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the LORD besides, that we might enquire of him? 8 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may enquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.
2 Chr 19:2 : 2 And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD? therefore is wrath upon thee from before the LORD.
Ps 15:4 : 4 In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.

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