Micah 3:3
Old Testament • 13 words with Strong's data
"Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron."
Word-by-Word Analysis
אָכַל
ʼâkal
to eat (literally or figuratively)
בָּשָׂר
bâsâr
flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphemistically) the pudenda of aman
עַם
ʻam
a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
פָּשַׁט
pâshaṭ
to spread out (i.e. deploy in hostile array); by analogy, to strip (i.e. unclothe, plunder, flay, etc.)
עוֹר
ʻôwr
skin (as naked); by implication, hide, leather
שָׁבַר
shâbar
to burst (literally or figuratively)
עֶצֶם
ʻetsem
a bone (as strong); by extension, the body; figuratively, the substance, i.e. (as pron.) selfsame
בָּשָׂר
bâsâr
flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphemistically) the pudenda of aman
תָּוֶךְ
tâvek
a bisection, i.e. (by implication) the centre
אַגְמוֹן
ʼagmôwn
a bulrush (as growing there); collectively a rope of bulrushes
Key Terms in This Verse
פָּשַׁט pâshaṭ
to spread out (i.e. deploy in hostile array); by analogy, to strip (i.e. unclothe, plunder, flay, etc.)
Study H6584 →אַגְמוֹן ʼagmôwn
a bulrush (as growing there); collectively a rope of bulrushes
Study H100 →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 →Cross References
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
Which say, It is not near; let us build houses: this city is the caldron, and we be the flesh.
Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
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