Joel 2:12

Old Testament • 9 words with Strong's data

"Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:"

Word-by-Word Analysis

כֵּן

kên

H3651

properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner...

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also now

אָמַר

ʼâmar

H559

to say (used with great latitude)

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the

יְהֹוָה

Yᵉhôvâh

H3068

Jehovah, Jewish national name of God

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שׁוּב

shûwb

H7725

to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); ...

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ye

עֶרֶב

ʻereb

H6153

dusk

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to me with all your

לֵב

lêb

H3820

the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything

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and with

צוֹם

tsôwm

H6685

a fast

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and with

בְּכִי

Bᵉkîy

H1065

a weeping; by analogy, a dripping

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and with

אֵבֶל

ʼêbel

H60

lamentation

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Key Terms in This Verse

fasting H6685

צוֹם tsôwm

a fast

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weeping H1065

בְּכִי Bᵉkîy

a weeping; by analogy, a dripping

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mourning H60

אֵבֶל ʼêbel

lamentation

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turn H7725

שׁוּב shûwb

to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); generally to retreat; often adverbial, again

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heart H3820

לֵב lêb

the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything

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Therefore H3651

כֵּן kên

properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner, time and relation; often with other particles)

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saith H559

אָמַר ʼâmar

to say (used with great latitude)

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even H6153

עֶרֶב ʻereb

dusk

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LORD H3068

יְהֹוָה Yᵉhôvâh

Jehovah, Jewish national name of God

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Cross References

Hosea 12:6 cross-reference

Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.

Jeremiah 4:1 cross-reference

If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove.

Hosea 6:1 cross-reference

Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.

1 Samuel 7:6 cross-reference

And they gathered together to Mizpeh, and drew water, and poured it out before the LORD, and fasted on that day, and said there, We have sinned against the LORD. And Samuel judged the children of Isra...

Hosea 14:1 cross-reference

O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.

Acts 26:20 cross-reference

But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.

1 Samuel 7:3 cross-reference

And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the...

Judges 20:26 cross-reference

Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came unto the house of God, and wept, and sat there before the LORD, and fasted that day until even, and offered burnt offerings and p...

Isaiah 22:12 cross-reference

And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:

Zechariah 7:3 cross-reference

And to speak unto the priests which were in the house of the LORD of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?

Zechariah 7:5 cross-reference

Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me?

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