Malachi 3:15
Old Testament • 12 words with Strong's data
"And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered."
Word-by-Word Analysis
קָרָא
qârâʼ
to call out to (i.e. properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications)
אֶשֶׁר
ʼesher
happiness; only in masculine plural construction as interjection, how happy!
מַעֲשֶׂה
maʻăseh
an action (good or bad); generally, a transaction; abstractly, activity; by implication, a product (specifically, a poem) or (generally) property
רַע
raʻ
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
שׂוּם
sûwm
to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
נָסָה
nâçâh
to test; by implication, to attempt
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...
נָתַן
nâthan
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
Key Terms in This Verse
אֶשֶׁר ʼesher
happiness; only in masculine plural construction as interjection, how happy!
Study H835 →קָרָא qârâʼ
to call out to (i.e. properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications)
Study H7121 →נָתַן nâthan
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
Study H5414 →מַעֲשֶׂה maʻăseh
an action (good or bad); generally, a transaction; abstractly, activity; by implication, a product (specifically, a poem) or (generally) property
Study H4639 →שׂוּם sûwm
to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
Study H7760 →Cross References
For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that i...
Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the ...
If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.
Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. Now the king spake and said unto Daniel, Thy God whom thou servest continually, he will deliver thee.
But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.
The wicked desireth the net of evil men: but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit.
That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty?
Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.
Nevertheless Haman refrained himself: and when he came home, he sent and called for his friends, and Zeresh his wife.
Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?
When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself.
For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.
And upon a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an oration unto them.
And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.
The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.
Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out.
When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
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