Haggai 1:6
Old Testament • 19 words with Strong's data
"Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes."
Word-by-Word Analysis
זָרַע
zâraʻ
to sow; figuratively, to disseminate, plant, fructify
רַב
rab
abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality)
בּוֹא
bôwʼ
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
מְעַט
mᵉʻaṭ
a little or few (often adverbial or compar.)
אָכַל
ʼâkal
to eat (literally or figuratively)
דַּי
day
enough (as noun or adverb), used chiefly with preposition in phrases
שָׁתָה
shâthâh
to imbibe (literally or figuratively)
מָלֵא
mâlêʼ
to fill or (intransitively) be full of, in a wide application (literally and figuratively)
שָׁתָה
shâthâh
to imbibe (literally or figuratively)
לָבַשׁ
lâbash
properly, wrap around, i.e. (by implication) to put on agarment or clothe (oneself, or another), literally or figuratively
אִישׁ
ʼîysh
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
נָתַן
nâthan
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
כִּיס
kîyç
a cup; also a bag formoney or weights
Key Terms in This Verse
לָבַשׁ lâbash
properly, wrap around, i.e. (by implication) to put on agarment or clothe (oneself, or another), literally or figuratively
Study H3847 →דַּי day
enough (as noun or adverb), used chiefly with preposition in phrases
Study H1767 →Cross References
Ye looked for much, and lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own hou...
For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the LORD.
Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.
For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.
If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed the...
Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
For before these days there was no hire for man, nor any hire for beast; neither was there any peace to him that went out or came in because of the affliction: for I set all men every one against his ...
I will bring it forth, saith the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his hous...
And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.
A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David enquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonit...
Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.
In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
And she said, As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for ...
The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.
And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.
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