Micah 7:1

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אַ֣לְלַי לִ֗י כִּ֤י הָיִ֙יתִי֙ כְּאָסְפֵּי־קַ֔יִץ כְּעֹלְלֹ֖ת בָּצִ֑יר אֵין־אֶשְׁכּ֣וֹל לֶאֱכ֔וֹל בִּכּוּרָ֖ה אִוְּתָ֥ה נַפְשִֽׁי׃

Transliteration

ʾallay to me, for hāyîtî like ʾōsəpê-qayiṣ, like ʿōləlōt bāṣîr; ʾên-ʾešəkôl to eat, bikkûrāh ʾiwwətāh napəšî.

Grammar Details

*ʾallay*: interjection - woe/alas
*lî*: preposition with 1st person singular suffix - to/for me
*kî*: conjunction - for/because
*hāyîtî*: Qal perfect, 1st person singular - I have become/I am
*kə*: preposition - like/as
*ʾōsəpê*: construct plural noun - gatherings/gleanings of
*qayiṣ*: masculine singular noun - summer fruit/harvest
*ʿōləlōt*: feminine plural noun - gleanings
*bāṣîr*: masculine singular noun - grape harvest/vintage
*ʾên*: particle of negation - there is not
*ʾešəkôl*: masculine singular noun - cluster (of grapes)
*leʾĕkôl*: preposition + Qal infinitive construct - to eat
*bikkûrāh*: feminine singular noun - early/first-ripe fig
*ʾiwwətāh*: Piel perfect, 3rd person feminine singular - it desires/longs for
*napəšî*: feminine singular noun with 1st person singular suffix - my soul/self

Word Meanings

*ʾallay*: woe/alas/ah me
*ʾōsəpê-qayiṣ*: gatherings of summer fruit/late harvest/gleanings after the main harvest
*ʿōləlōt*: gleanings/leftover grapes after harvest
*bāṣîr*: grape harvest/vintage/grape-gathering
*ʾešəkôl*: cluster of grapes/bunch
*bikkûrāh*: first-ripe fig/early fruit/first-fruit
*ʾiwwətāh*: desires/longs for/craves
*napəšî*: my soul/my appetite/myself/my being

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Referenced Verses

Isa 24:13 : 13 When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.
Isa 28:4 : 4 And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.
Hos 9:10 : 10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.
Isa 17:6 : 6 Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the LORD God of Israel.
Jer 4:31 : 31 For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.
Jer 15:10 : 10 Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.
Jer 45:3 : 3 Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the LORD hath added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.
Isa 24:16 : 16 From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.
Ps 120:5 : 5 Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!
Isa 6:5 : 5 Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.

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