Amos 8:5
Old Testament • 18 words with Strong's data
"Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?"
Word-by-Word Analysis
אָמַר
ʼâmar
to say (used with great latitude)
הָלַךְ
hâlak
to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
מָכַר
mâkar
to sell, literally (as merchandise, a daughter in marriage, into slavery), or figuratively (to surrender)
שַׁבָּת
shabbâth
intermission, i.e (specifically) the Sabbath
שׂוּם
sûwm
to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
יָצָא
yâtsâʼ
to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim.
חִטָּה
chiṭṭâh
wheat, whether the grain or the plant
עָשָׂה
ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
אֵיפָה
ʼêyphâh
an ephah or measure for grain; hence, a measure in general
קָטָן
qâṭân
abbreviated, i.e. diminutive, literally (in quantity, size or number) or figuratively (in age or importance)
שֶׁקֶל
sheqel
probably a weight; used as a commercial standard
גָּדוֹל
gâdôwl
great (in any sense); hence, older; also insolent
מֹאזֵן
môʼzên
(only in the dual) a pair of scales
Key Terms in This Verse
מָכַר mâkar
to sell, literally (as merchandise, a daughter in marriage, into slavery), or figuratively (to surrender)
Study H4376 →קָטָן qâṭân
abbreviated, i.e. diminutive, literally (in quantity, size or number) or figuratively (in age or importance)
Study H6996 →Cross References
He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.
A just weight and balance are the LORD’s: all the weights of the bag are his work.
Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.
Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
And he said, Wherefore wilt thou go to him to day? it is neither new moon, nor sabbath. And she said, It shall be well.
Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offeri...
If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, n...
Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
Ye said also, Behold, what a weariness is it! and ye have snuffed at it, saith the LORD of hosts; and ye brought that which was torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus ye brought an offering: should I ...
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