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Amos 4

Amos 4:11 KJV (With Strong’s)

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I have overthrown
haphak (Hebrew #2015)
to turn about or over; by implication, to change, overturn, return, pervert
KJV usage: X become, change, come, be converted, give, make (a bed), overthrow (-turn), perverse, retire, tumble, turn (again, aside, back, to the contrary, every way).
Pronounce: haw-fak'
Origin: a primitive root
some of you, as God
'elohiym (Hebrew #430)
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 deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative
KJV usage: angels, X exceeding, God (gods)(-dess, -ly), X (very) great, judges, X mighty.
Pronounce: el-o-heem'
Origin: plural of 433
overthrew
mahpekah (Hebrew #4114)
from 2015; a destruction: --when...overthrew, overthrow(-n).
Pronounce: mah-pay-kaw'
Sodom
Cdom (Hebrew #5467)
burnt (i.e. volcanic or bituminous) district; Sedom, a place near the Dead Sea
KJV usage: Sodom.
Pronounce: sed-ome'
Origin: from an unused root meaning to scorch
l and Gomorrah
`Amorah (Hebrew #6017)
a (ruined) heap; Amorah, a place in Palestine
KJV usage: Gomorrah.
Pronounce: am-o-raw'
Origin: from 6014
, and ye were as a firebrand
'uwd (Hebrew #181)
a poker (for turning or gathering embers)
KJV usage: (fire-)brand.
Pronounce: ood
Origin: from an unused root meaning to rake together
m plucked out
natsal (Hebrew #5337)
to snatch away, whether in a good or a bad sense
KJV usage: X at all, defend, deliver (self), escape, X without fail, part, pluck, preserve, recover, rescue, rid, save, spoil, strip, X surely, take (out).
Pronounce: naw-tsal'
Origin: a primitive root
of the burning
srephah (Hebrew #8316)
cremation
KJV usage: burning.
Pronounce: ser-ay-faw'
Origin: from 8313
: yet have ye not returned
shuwb (Hebrew #7725)
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
KJV usage: ((break, build, circumcise, dig, do anything, do evil, feed, lay down, lie down, lodge, make, rejoice, send, take, weep)) X again, (cause to) answer (+ again), X in any case (wise), X at all, averse, bring (again, back, home again), call (to mind), carry again (back), cease, X certainly, come again (back), X consider, + continually, convert, deliver (again), + deny, draw back, fetch home again, X fro, get (oneself) (back) again, X give (again), go again (back, home), (go) out, hinder, let, (see) more, X needs, be past, X pay, pervert, pull in again, put (again, up again), recall, recompense, recover, refresh, relieve, render (again), requite, rescue, restore, retrieve, (cause to, make to) return, reverse, reward, + say nay, send back, set again, slide back, still, X surely, take back (off), (cause to, make to) turn (again, self again, away, back, back again, backward, from, off), withdraw.
Pronounce: shoob
Origin: a primitive root
unto me, saith
n'um (Hebrew #5002)
an oracle
KJV usage: (hath) said, saith.
Pronounce: neh-oom'
Origin: from 5001
the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
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Gen. 19:24‑25• 24And Jehovah rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah out of heaven,
 25and overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew upon the ground. (Gen. 19:24‑25)
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Zech. 3:2• 2And Jehovah said unto Satan, Jehovah rebuke thee, O Satan! Yea, Jehovah that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee! Is not this a brand plucked out of the fire? (Zech. 3:2)
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Jude 23• 23but others save with fear, snatching them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh. (Jude 23)

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Gomorrah; Gomorrha,
Sodom; Sodoma

Cross References

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as God.
Gen. 19:24‑25• 24And Jehovah rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah out of heaven,
 25and overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew upon the ground. (Gen. 19:24‑25)
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Isa. 13:19• 19And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans' pride, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. (Isa. 13:19)
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Jer. 49:18• 18As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, and their neighbour cities, saith Jehovah, no one shall dwell there, neither shall a son of man sojourn therein. (Jer. 49:18)
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Hos. 11:8• 8How shall I give thee over, Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee up, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? how shall I set thee as Zeboim? My heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together. (Hos. 11:8)
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2 Peter 2:6• 6and having reduced the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha to ashes, condemned them with an overthrow, setting them as an example to those that should afterwards live an ungodly life; (2 Peter 2:6)
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Jude 7• 7as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities around them, committing greedily fornication, in like manner with them, and going after other flesh, lie there as an example, undergoing the judgment of eternal fire. (Jude 7)
as a.
Zech. 3:2• 2And Jehovah said unto Satan, Jehovah rebuke thee, O Satan! Yea, Jehovah that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee! Is not this a brand plucked out of the fire? (Zech. 3:2)
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1 Cor. 3:15• 15If the work of any one shall be consumed, he shall suffer loss, but *he* shall be saved, but so as through the fire. (1 Cor. 3:15)
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Jude 23• 23but others save with fear, snatching them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh. (Jude 23)
yet.
Amos 4:6• 6And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places; yet ye have not returned unto me, saith Jehovah. (Amos 4:6)
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Jer. 6:28‑30• 28They are all the most rebellious of rebels, going about with slander: they are bronze and iron; they are all corrupters.
 29The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed by the fire; they have melted, and melted in vain; and the bad are not plucked away.
 30Reprobate silver shall they call them, for Jehovah hath rejected them. (Jer. 6:28‑30)
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Ezek. 22:17‑22• 17And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
 18Son of man, the house of Israel is become dross to me: they are all copper, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace: they are become the dross of silver.
 19Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because ye are all become dross, therefore behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.
 20As they gather silver, and copper, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it, so will I gather you in mine anger and in my fury, and I will lay you on and melt you.
 21Yea, I will collect you, and blow upon you the fire of my wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst thereof.
 22As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall ye be melted in the midst thereof: and ye shall know that I Jehovah have poured out my fury upon you. (Ezek. 22:17‑22)
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Ezek. 24:13• 13In thy filthiness is lewdness, for I have purged thee, and thou art not pure. Thou shalt no more be purged from thy filthiness, till I have satisfied my fury upon thee. (Ezek. 24:13)
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Rev. 9:20• 20And the rest of men who were not killed with these plagues repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and the golden and silver and brazen and stone and wooden idols, which can neither see nor hear nor walk. (Rev. 9:20)

J. N. Darby Translation

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I have overthrown among you, like God’s overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a brand plucked out of the burning; yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah.