Amos 8:4

Old Testament • 8 words with Strong's data

"Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,"

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 O ye that

דְּרוֹר

dᵉrôwr

H1866

the swift, a kind of swallow

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up the

אֶבְיוֹן

ʼebyôwn

H34

destitute

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עֶרֶב

ʻereb

H6153

dusk

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to

עָשָׂה

ʻâsâh

H6213

to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application

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the

עָנִי

ʻânîy

H6041

depressed, in mind or circumstances

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of the

אֶרֶץ

ʼerets

H776

the earth (at large, or partitively a land)

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to

כָּלָה

kâlâh

H3615

to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitived (to complete, prepare, consume)

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Key Terms in This Verse

swallow H1866

דְּרוֹר dᵉrôwr

the swift, a kind of swallow

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needy H34

אֶבְיוֹן ʼebyôwn

destitute

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fail H3615

כָּלָה kâlâh

to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitived (to complete, prepare, consume)

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poor H6041

עָנִי ʻânîy

depressed, in mind or circumstances

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Hear H8085

שָׁמַע shâmaʻ

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

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make H6213

עָשָׂה ʻâsâh

to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application

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even H6153

עֶרֶב ʻereb

dusk

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land H776

אֶרֶץ ʼerets

the earth (at large, or partitively a land)

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Cross References

Proverbs 30:14 cross-reference

There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

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...

Psalm 14:4 cross-reference

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.

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.

Psalm 140:12 cross-reference

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

James 5:6 cross-reference

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

Matthew 23:13 cross-reference

But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.

Jeremiah 5:21 cross-reference

Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:

1 Kings 22:19 cross-reference

And he said, Hear thou therefore the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.

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