Amos 4:1

Old Testament • 15 words with Strong's data

"Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink."

Word-by-Word Analysis

שָׁמַע

shâmaʻ

H8085

to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)

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this

דָּבָר

dâbâr

H1697

a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause

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ye

פָּרָה

pârâh

H6510

a heifer

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of

בָּשָׁן

Bâshân

H1316

Bashan (often with the article), a region East of the Jordan

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that are in the

הַר

har

H2022

a mountain or range of hills (sometimes used figuratively)

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of

שֹׁמְרוֹן

Shômᵉrôwn

H8111

Shomeron, a place in Palestine

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which

עָשַׁק

ʻâshaq

H6231

to press upon, i.e. oppress, defraud, violate, overflow

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the

עָנִי

ʻânîy

H6041

depressed, in mind or circumstances

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which

זוּר

zûwr

H2115

to press together, tighten

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the

אֶבְיוֹן

ʼebyôwn

H34

destitute

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which

אָמַר

ʼâmar

H559

to say (used with great latitude)

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to their

בַּעַל

baʻal

H1167

a master; hence, a husband, or (figuratively) owner (often used with another noun in modifications of this latter sense)

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בּוֹא

bôwʼ

H935

to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)

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and

שָׁאַר

shâʼar

H7604

properly, to swell up, i.e. be (causatively, make) redundant

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us

שָׁתָה

shâthâh

H8354

to imbibe (literally or figuratively)

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Key Terms in This Verse

crush H2115

זוּר zûwr

to press together, tighten

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masters H1167

בַּעַל baʻal

a master; hence, a husband, or (figuratively) owner (often used with another noun in modifications of this latter sense)

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oppress H6231

עָשַׁק ʻâshaq

to press upon, i.e. oppress, defraud, violate, overflow

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kine H6510

פָּרָה pârâh

a heifer

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needy H34

אֶבְיוֹן ʼebyôwn

destitute

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Bashan H1316

בָּשָׁן Bâshân

Bashan (often with the article), a region East of the Jordan

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Samaria H8111

שֹׁמְרוֹן Shômᵉrôwn

Shomeron, a place in Palestine

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mountain H2022

הַר har

a mountain or range of hills (sometimes used figuratively)

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poor H6041

עָנִי ʻânîy

depressed, in mind or circumstances

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drink H8354

שָׁתָה shâthâh

to imbibe (literally or figuratively)

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Cross References

Psalm 22:12 cross-reference

Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.

Amos 6:1 cross-reference

Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came!

Ezekiel 39:18 cross-reference

Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.

Amos 5:11 cross-reference

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, bu...

Ecclesiastes 4:1 cross-reference

So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was ...

Joel 3:3 cross-reference

And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.

Ecclesiastes 5:8 cross-reference

If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher ...

Jeremiah 6:6 cross-reference

For thus hath the LORD of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.

Ezekiel 22:29 cross-reference

The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.

Ezekiel 22:12 cross-reference

In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.

Malachi 3:5 cross-reference

And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his...

Jeremiah 50:27 cross-reference

Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.

Deuteronomy 28:33 cross-reference

The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway:

Ezekiel 22:27 cross-reference

Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.

Jeremiah 51:34 cross-reference

Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cas...

1 Kings 16:24 cross-reference

And he bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver, and built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he built, after the name of Shemer, owner of the hill, Samaria.

Jeremiah 7:6 cross-reference

If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:

Isaiah 58:6 cross-reference

Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?

Job 20:19 cross-reference

Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;

Ezekiel 22:7 cross-reference

In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.

Psalm 140:12 cross-reference

I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.

Isaiah 5:8 cross-reference

Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!

Psalm 12:5 cross-reference

For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.

Jeremiah 50:11 cross-reference

Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;

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