Amos 5:12

Old Testament • 13 words with Strong's data

"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."

Word-by-Word Analysis

For I

יָדַע

yâdaʻ

H3045

to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including o...

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your

רַב

rab

H7227

abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality)

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פֶּשַׁע

peshaʻ

H6588

a revolt (national, moral or religious)

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and your

גִּבּוֹר

gibbôwr

H1368

powerful; by implication, warrior, tyrant

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חַטָּאָה

chaṭṭâʼâh

H2403

an offence (sometimes habitual sinfulness), and its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, or expiation; also (concretely) an offender

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they

עָנָה

ʻânâh

H6031

to depress literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive (in various applications, as follows)

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the just they

לָקַח

lâqach

H3947

to take (in the widest variety of applications)

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a

כֹּפֶר

kôpher

H3724

properly, a cover, i.e. (literally) a village (as covered in); (specifically) bitumen (as used for coating), and the henna plant (as used for dyeing);...

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and they

שׁוּב

shûwb

H7725

to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); ...

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סוּר

çûwr

H5493

to turn off (literal or figurative)

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the

עָנִי

ʻânîy

H6041

depressed, in mind or circumstances

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in the

שַׁעַר

shaʻar

H8179

an opening, i.e. door or gate

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from their

יְמָנִי

yᵉmânîy

H3233

right (i.e. at the right hand)

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Key Terms in This Verse

bribe H3724

כֹּפֶר kôpher

properly, a cover, i.e. (literally) a village (as covered in); (specifically) bitumen (as used for coating), and the henna plant (as used for dyeing); figuratively, a redemption-price

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manifold H7227

רַב rab

abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality)

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afflict H6031

עָנָה ʻânâh

to depress literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive (in various applications, as follows)

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transgressions H6588

פֶּשַׁע peshaʻ

a revolt (national, moral or religious)

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aside H5493

סוּר çûwr

to turn off (literal or figurative)

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sins H2403

חַטָּאָה chaṭṭâʼâh

an offence (sometimes habitual sinfulness), and its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, or expiation; also (concretely) an offender

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poor H6041

עָנִי ʻânîy

depressed, in mind or circumstances

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gate H8179

שַׁעַר shaʻar

an opening, i.e. door or gate

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turn H7725

שׁוּב shûwb

to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); generally to retreat; often adverbial, again

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mighty H1368

גִּבּוֹר gibbôwr

powerful; by implication, warrior, tyrant

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Cross References

Amos 5:10 cross-reference

They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.

Isaiah 1:23 cross-reference

Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

1 Samuel 8:3 cross-reference

And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.

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...

James 5:4 cross-reference

Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth...

Acts 7:52 cross-reference

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:

Deuteronomy 16:18 cross-reference

Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.

James 5:6 cross-reference

Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.

Isaiah 29:21 cross-reference

That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.

Micah 7:3 cross-reference

That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.

Ruth 4:1 cross-reference

Then went Boaz up to the gate, and sat him down there: and, behold, the kinsman of whom Boaz spake came by; unto whom he said, Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here. And he turned aside, and sat d...

Isaiah 33:15 cross-reference

He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shuttet...

Deuteronomy 31:21 cross-reference

And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I ...

Amos 2:16 cross-reference

And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the LORD.

Isaiah 66:18 cross-reference

For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.

Isaiah 47:9 cross-reference

But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great...

Lamentations 3:34 cross-reference

To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,

Micah 3:11 cross-reference

The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil ca...

Proverbs 22:22 cross-reference

Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:

Job 31:21 cross-reference

If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:

Isaiah 10:2 cross-reference

To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!

Jeremiah 29:23 cross-reference

Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours’ wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and am a ...

Isaiah 5:23 cross-reference

Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

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