Micah 3:2
Old Testament • 8 words with Strong's data
"Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;"
Word-by-Word Analysis
טוֹב
ṭôwb
good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good...
אָהַב
ʼâhab
to have affection for (sexually or otherwise)
רַע
raʻ
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
עוֹר
ʻôwr
skin (as naked); by implication, hide, leather
בָּשָׂר
bâsâr
flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphemistically) the pudenda of aman
עֶצֶם
ʻetsem
a bone (as strong); by extension, the body; figuratively, the substance, i.e. (as pron.) selfsame
Key Terms in This Verse
עֶצֶם ʻetsem
a bone (as strong); by extension, the body; figuratively, the substance, i.e. (as pron.) selfsame
Study H6106 →בָּשָׂר bâsâr
flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphemistically) the pudenda of aman
Study H1320 →טוֹב ṭôwb
good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good or good thing, a good man or woman; the good, goo...
Study H2896 →Cross References
Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.
They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.
And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the LORD.
And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD? therefore is wrath upon thee from before the ...
Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.
Then cried they all again, saying, Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber.
Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.
Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock.
The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
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