Joel 1:13
Old Testament • 20 words with Strong's data
"Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God."
Word-by-Word Analysis
חָגַר
châgar
to gird on (as a belt, armor, etc.)
נֶפֶשׁ
nephesh
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or menta...
סָפַד
çâphad
properly, to tear the hair and beat the breasts (as Orientals do in grief); generally to lament; by implication, to wail
כֹּהֵן
kôhên
literally one officiating, a priest; also (by courtesy) an acting priest (although a layman)
יָלַל
yâlal
to howl (with a wailing tone) or yell (with a boisterous one)
שָׁרַת
shârath
to attend as a menial or worshipper; figuratively, to contribute to
בּוֹא
bôwʼ
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
שָׁכַב
shâkab
to lie down (for rest, sexual connection, decease or any other purpose)
לַיִל
layil
properly, a twist (away of the light), i.e. night; figuratively, adversity
שַׂק
saq
properly, a mesh (as allowing a liquid to run through), i.e. coarse loose cloth or sacking (used in mourning and for bagging); hence, a bag (for grain...
שָׁרַת
shârath
to attend as a menial or worshipper; figuratively, to contribute to
אֱלֹהִים
ʼĕlôhîym
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of...
מִנְחָה
minchâh
a donation; euphemistically, tribute; specifically a sacrificial offering (usually bloodless and voluntary)
שָׁתָה
shâthâh
to imbibe (literally or figuratively)
מִנְחָה
minchâh
a donation; euphemistically, tribute; specifically a sacrificial offering (usually bloodless and voluntary)
מָנַע
mânaʻ
to debar (negatively or positively) from benefit or injury
בַּיִת
bayith
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
אֱלֹהִים
ʼĕlôhîym
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of...
Key Terms in This Verse
מָנַע mânaʻ
to debar (negatively or positively) from benefit or injury
Study H4513 →סָפַד çâphad
properly, to tear the hair and beat the breasts (as Orientals do in grief); generally to lament; by implication, to wail
Study H5594 →שָׁרַת shârath
to attend as a menial or worshipper; figuratively, to contribute to
Study H8334 →שָׁרַת shârath
to attend as a menial or worshipper; figuratively, to contribute to
Study H8334 →שַׂק saq
properly, a mesh (as allowing a liquid to run through), i.e. coarse loose cloth or sacking (used in mourning and for bagging); hence, a bag (for grain, etc.)
Study H8242 →שָׁכַב shâkab
to lie down (for rest, sexual connection, decease or any other purpose)
Study H7901 →נֶפֶשׁ nephesh
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
Study H5315 →Cross References
For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.
For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear th...
And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.
Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over...
They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.
Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?
David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth.
Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.
Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
Beside the burnt offering of the month, and his meat offering, and the daily burnt offering, and his meat offering, and their drink offerings, according unto their manner, for a sweet savour, a sacrif...
But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
But ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.
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