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

Ye have

זָרַע

zâraʻ

H2232

to sow; figuratively, to disseminate, plant, fructify

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רַב

rab

H7227

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

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and

בּוֹא

bôwʼ

H935

to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)

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in

מְעַט

mᵉʻaṭ

H4592

a little or few (often adverbial or compar.)

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ye

אָכַל

ʼâkal

H398

to eat (literally or figuratively)

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but ye have not

דַּי

day

H1767

enough (as noun or adverb), used chiefly with preposition in phrases

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ye

שָׁתָה

shâthâh

H8354

to imbibe (literally or figuratively)

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but ye are not

מָלֵא

mâlêʼ

H4390

to fill or (intransitively) be full of, in a wide application (literally and figuratively)

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with

שָׁתָה

shâthâh

H8354

to imbibe (literally or figuratively)

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ye

לָבַשׁ

lâbash

H3847

properly, wrap around, i.e. (by implication) to put on agarment or clothe (oneself, or another), literally or figuratively

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you but there is

אִישׁ

ʼîysh

H376

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)

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זָרַב

zârab

H2215

to flow away

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and he that

שָׂכַר

sâkar

H7936

to hire

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מַשְׂכֹּרֶת

maskôreth

H4909

wages or a reward

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שָׂכַר

sâkar

H7936

to hire

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מַשְׂכֹּרֶת

maskôreth

H4909

wages or a reward

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to

נָתַן

nâthan

H5414

to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)

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it into a

כִּיס

kîyç

H3599

a cup; also a bag formoney or weights

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with

נָקִיק

nâqîyq

H5357

a cleft

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Key Terms in This Verse

earneth H7936

שָׂכַר sâkar

to hire

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earneth H7936

שָׂכַר sâkar

to hire

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warm H2215

זָרַב zârab

to flow away

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bag H3599

כִּיס kîyç

a cup; also a bag formoney or weights

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holes H5357

נָקִיק nâqîyq

a cleft

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clothe H3847

לָבַשׁ lâbash

properly, wrap around, i.e. (by implication) to put on agarment or clothe (oneself, or another), literally or figuratively

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wages H4909

מַשְׂכֹּרֶת maskôreth

wages or a reward

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wages H4909

מַשְׂכֹּרֶת maskôreth

wages or a reward

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sown H2232

זָרַע zâraʻ

to sow; figuratively, to disseminate, plant, fructify

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enough H1767

דַּי day

enough (as noun or adverb), used chiefly with preposition in phrases

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Cross References

Haggai 1:9 cross-reference

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...

Hosea 4:10 cross-reference

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.

Haggai 2:16 cross-reference

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.

Hosea 8:7 cross-reference

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.

Malachi 2:2 cross-reference

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...

Isaiah 5:10 cross-reference

Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.

Zechariah 8:10 cross-reference

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 ...

Zechariah 5:4 cross-reference

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...

Leviticus 26:26 cross-reference

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.

Psalm 107:34 cross-reference

A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

2 Samuel 21:1 cross-reference

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...

Jeremiah 14:4 cross-reference

Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.

Job 20:22 cross-reference

In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.

1 Kings 17:12 cross-reference

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 ...

Job 20:28 cross-reference

The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.

Jeremiah 44:18 cross-reference

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.

Leviticus 26:20 cross-reference

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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