Micah 6:16

Old Testament • 17 words with Strong's data

"For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people."

Word-by-Word Analysis

For the

חֹק

chôq

H2706

an enactment; hence, an appointment (of time, space, quantity, labor or usage)

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of

עׇמְרִי

ʻOmrîy

H6018

Omri, an Israelite

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are

שָׁמַר

shâmar

H8104

properly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e. guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc.

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and all the

מַעֲשֶׂה

maʻăseh

H4639

an action (good or bad); generally, a transaction; abstractly, activity; by implication, a product (specifically, a poem) or (generally) property

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of the

בַּיִת

bayith

H1004

a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)

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of

אַחְאָב

ʼAchʼâb

H256

Achab, the name of a king of Israel and of a prophet at Babylon

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and ye

יָלַךְ

yâlak

H3212

to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)

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in their

מוֹעֵצָה

môwʻêtsâh

H4156

a purpose

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that I should

עָשָׂה

ʻâsâh

H6213

to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application

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thee a

שְׁמָמָה

shᵉmâmâh

H8077

devastation; figuratively, astonishment

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and the

יָשַׁב

yâshab

H3427

properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry

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חָלַל

châlal

H2490

properly, to bore, i.e. (by implication) to wound, to dissolve; figuratively, to profane (a person, place or thing), to break (one's word), to begin (...

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an

שְׁרוּקָה

shᵉrûwqâh

H8292

a whistling (in scorn); by analogy, a piping

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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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ye shall

נָשָׂא

nâsâʼ

H5375

to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absolute and relative

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the

חֶרְפָּה

cherpâh

H2781

contumely, disgrace, the pudenda

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of my

עַם

ʻam

H5971

a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock

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Key Terms in This Verse

hissing H8292

שְׁרוּקָה shᵉrûwqâh

a whistling (in scorn); by analogy, a piping

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counsels H4156

מוֹעֵצָה môwʻêtsâh

a purpose

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Omri H6018

עׇמְרִי ʻOmrîy

Omri, an Israelite

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desolation H8077

שְׁמָמָה shᵉmâmâh

devastation; figuratively, astonishment

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reproach H2781

חֶרְפָּה cherpâh

contumely, disgrace, the pudenda

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Ahab H256

אַחְאָב ʼAchʼâb

Achab, the name of a king of Israel and of a prophet at Babylon

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statutes H2706

חֹק chôq

an enactment; hence, an appointment (of time, space, quantity, labor or usage)

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kept H8104

שָׁמַר shâmar

properly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e. guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc.

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inhabitants H3427

יָשַׁב yâshab

properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry

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walk H3212

יָלַךְ yâlak

to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)

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Cross References

Jeremiah 51:51 cross-reference

We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD’s house.

Isaiah 25:8 cross-reference

He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it.

Psalm 44:13 cross-reference

Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

Jeremiah 7:24 cross-reference

But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

Jeremiah 19:8 cross-reference

And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.

2 Chronicles 34:25 cross-reference

Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be poured out upon this place, a...

Lamentations 5:1 cross-reference

Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.

2 Kings 16:3 cross-reference

But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel...

1 Kings 18:4 cross-reference

For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)

1 Kings 9:8 cross-reference

And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?

Jeremiah 25:9 cross-reference

Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants there...

Hosea 5:11 cross-reference

Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment.

Ezekiel 39:26 cross-reference

After that they have borne their shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when they dwelt safely in their land, and none made them afraid.

Isaiah 9:16 cross-reference

For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.

Revelation 2:20 cross-reference

Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat th...

Psalm 1:1 cross-reference

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

2 Kings 21:3 cross-reference

For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, an...

Daniel 9:16 cross-reference

O LORD, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our ...

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