Amos 4:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this pleases you, O children of Israel, says the Lord GOD.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְקַטֵּ֤ר מֵֽחָמֵץ֙ תּוֹדָ֔ה וְקִרְא֥וּ נְדָב֖וֹת הַשְׁמִ֑יעוּ כִּ֣י כֵ֤ן אֲהַבְתֶּם֙ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל נְאֻ֖ם אֲדֹנָ֥י יְהוִֽה׃

Transliteration

wǝ-qaṭṭēr from ḥāmēṣ tôdāh wǝ-qirʾû nǝdābôt hašmîʿû for thus ʾahavtem bǝnê Yiśrāʾēl nǝʾum ʾAdōnāy YHWH

Grammar Details

• *wǝ-qaṭṭēr*: conjunction + imperative, masculine singular, piel - and burn/offer
• *ḥāmēṣ*: noun, masculine singular - leavened bread
• *tôdāh*: noun, feminine singular - thanksgiving offering
• *wǝ-qirʾû*: conjunction + imperative, masculine plural, qal - and proclaim/call
• *nǝdābôt*: noun, feminine plural - freewill offerings
• *hašmîʿû*: imperative, masculine plural, hiphil - make heard/proclaim
• *ʾahavtem*: perfect, 2nd person masculine plural - you have loved
• *bǝnê*: noun, masculine plural construct - sons/children of
• *Yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
• *nǝʾum*: construct noun - declaration of
• *ʾAdōnāy*: noun, masculine singular with 1st person suffix - my Lord
• *YHWH*: proper noun - divine name

Word Meanings

• *qaṭṭēr*: burn/offer as incense/smoke
• *ḥāmēṣ*: leavened bread/that which is leavened
• *tôdāh*: thanksgiving offering/confession/praise
• *nǝdābôt*: freewill offerings/voluntary gifts
• *hašmîʿû*: make heard/proclaim/announce

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  Burn a thanksgiving offering with leaven, loudly proclaim your freewill offerings, for this is what you love to do, O people of Israel,' declares the Lord GOD.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  and offer{H6999} a sacrifice of thanksgiving{H8426} of that which is leavened,{H2557} and proclaim{H7121} freewill-offerings{H5071} and publish{H8085} them: for this{H3651} pleaseth{H157} you, O ye children{H1121} of Israel,{H3478} saith{H5002} the Lord{H136} Jehovah.{H3069}

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  And offer{H6999}{(H8763)} a sacrifice of thanksgiving{H8426} with leaven{H2557}, and proclaim{H7121}{(H8798)} and publish{H8085}{(H8685)} the free offerings{H5071}: for this{H3651} liketh{H157}{(H8804)} you, O ye children{H1121} of Israel{H3478}, saith{H5002}{(H8803)} the Lord{H136} GOD{H3069}.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Ye made a thakofferinge off leuen, ye promised frewillofferinges, and proclamed them. Soch lust had ye, o ye children of Israel, sayeth the LORDE God.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  And offer a thanksgiuing of leauen, publish & proclaime the free offrings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord God.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  And offer a thankes geuing of leauen, publishe & proclayme the free offringes: for this liketh you O ye children of Israel, sayth the Lorde God.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim [and] publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, And proclaim free will offerings and brag about them: For this pleases you, you children of Israel," says the Lord Yahweh.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  And perfume with leaven a thank-offering, And proclaim willing gifts, sound ye! For so ye have loved, O sons of Israel, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  and offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim freewill-offerings and publish them: for this pleaseth you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord Jehovah.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  and offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim freewill-offerings and publish them: for this pleaseth you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord Jehovah.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  Let that which is leavened be burned as a praise-offering, let the news of your free offerings be given out publicly; for this is pleasing to you, O children of Israel, says the Lord.

• World English Bible (2000)

  offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim free will offerings and brag about them: for this pleases you, you children of Israel," says the Lord Yahweh.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Burn a thank offering of bread made with yeast! Make a public display of your voluntary offerings! For you love to do this, you Israelites.” The Sovereign LORD is speaking!

Referenced Verses

• Ps 81:12 : 12 So I gave them up to their own hearts' desires, and they walked in their own counsels.
• Lev 22:18-21 : 18 Speak unto Aaron, and his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them, Whoever he be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, that offers his offering for all his vows, and for all his freewill offerings, which they will offer unto the LORD for a burnt offering; 19 You shall offer at your own will a male without blemish, of the cattle, of the sheep, or of the goats. 20 But whatever has a blemish, you shall not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you. 21 And whoever offers a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD to fulfill his vow, or a freewill offering in cattle or sheep, it shall be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no blemish in it.
• Lev 7:12-13 : 12 If he offers it for thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, fried. 13 Besides the cakes, he shall offer leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offerings.
• Hos 9:1 : 1 Do not rejoice, O Israel, like other peoples, for you have gone astray from your God; you have loved a reward upon every threshing floor.
• Hos 9:10 : 10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at its first season; but they went to Baal Peor, and separated themselves to that shame, and their abominations were according to their loves.
• Matt 6:2 : 2 Therefore, when you do your charitable deeds, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory from men. Truly, I say to you, they have their reward.
• Matt 15:9 : 9 But in vain they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.
• Matt 15:13-14 : 13 But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father has not planted, shall be rooted up. 14 Let them alone: they are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
• Matt 23:23 : 23 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you pay tithe of mint and anise and cumin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, justice, mercy, and faith: these you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone.
• Rom 1:28 : 28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
• 2 Thess 2:10-12 : 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12 That they all might be condemned who did not believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
• Lev 23:17 : 17 You shall bring out of your dwellings two wave loaves of two-tenths of an ephah; they shall be made of fine flour; they shall be baked with leaven; they are the firstfruits to the LORD.
• Deut 12:6-7 : 6 And there you shall bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the contributions of your hand, your vows, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks: 7 And there you shall eat before the LORD your God, and rejoice in all to which you put your hand, you and your households, in which the LORD your God has blessed you.