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
to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
עָשָׂה
ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
עָנִי
ʻânîy
depressed, in mind or circumstances
אֶרֶץ
ʼerets
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
כָּלָה
kâlâh
to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitived (to complete, prepare, consume)
Key Terms in This Verse
כָּלָה kâlâh
to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitived (to complete, prepare, consume)
Study H3615 →שָׁמַע shâmaʻ
to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
Study H8085 →Cross References
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.
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...
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
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.
I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.
Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.
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.
Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:
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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