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Amos 4

Amos 4:9 KJV (With Strong’s)

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I have smitten
nakah (Hebrew #5221)
to strike (lightly or severely, literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: beat, cast forth, clap, give (wounds), X go forward, X indeed, kill, make (slaughter), murderer, punish, slaughter, slay(-er, -ing), smite(-r, -ing), strike, be stricken, (give) stripes, X surely, wound.
Pronounce: naw-kaw'
Origin: a primitive root
you with blasting
shdephah (Hebrew #7711)
from 7710; blight
KJV usage: blasted(-ing).
Pronounce: shed-ay-faw'
Origin: or shiddaphown {shid-daw-fone'}
d and mildew
yeraqown (Hebrew #3420)
paleness, whether of persons (from fright), or of plants (from drought)
KJV usage: greenish, yellow.
Pronounce: yay-raw-kone'
Origin: from 3418
: δwhen your gardens
gannah (Hebrew #1593)
a garden
KJV usage: garden.
Pronounce: gan-naw'
Origin: feminine of 1588
and your vineyards
kerem (Hebrew #3754)
a garden or vineyard
KJV usage: vines, (increase of the) vineyard(-s), vintage. See also 1021.
Pronounce: keh'-rem
Origin: from an unused root of uncertain meaning
and your fig trees
t'en (Hebrew #8384)
perhaps of foreign derivation; the fig (tree or fruit)
KJV usage: fig (tree).
Pronounce: teh-ane'
Origin: or (in the singular, feminine) t:enah {teh-ay- naw'}
and your olive trees
zayith (Hebrew #2132)
an olive (as yielding illuminating oil), the tree, the branch or the berry
KJV usage: olive (tree, -yard), Olivet.
Pronounce: zay'-yith
Origin: probably from an unused root (akin to 2099)
increased
rabah (Hebrew #7235)
to increase (in whatever respect)
KJV usage: (bring in) abundance (X -antly), + archer (by mistake for 7232), be in authority, bring up, X continue, enlarge, excel, exceeding(-ly), be full of, (be, make) great(-er, -ly, X -ness), grow up, heap, increase, be long, (be, give, have, make, use) many (a time), (any, be, give, give the, have) more (in number), (ask, be, be so, gather, over, take, yield) much (greater, more), (make to) multiply, nourish, plenty(-eous), X process (of time), sore, store, thoroughly, very.
Pronounce: raw-baw'
Origin: a primitive root
, the palmerworm
gazam (Hebrew #1501)
a kind of locust
KJV usage: palmer-worm.
Pronounce: gaw-zawm'
Origin: from an unused root meaning to devour
devoured
'akal (Hebrew #398)
to eat (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: X at all, burn up, consume, devour(-er, up), dine, eat(-er, up), feed (with), food, X freely, X in...wise(-deed, plenty), (lay) meat, X quite.
Pronounce: aw-kal'
Origin: a primitive root
them: yetf 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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Deut. 28:22• 22Jehovah will smite thee with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with burning ague, and with drought, and with blight, and with mildew, and they shall pursue thee until thou perish. (Deut. 28:22)
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or, the multitude of.
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Jer. 5:3• 3Jehovah, are not thine eyes upon fidelity? Thou hast smitten them, but they are not sore; thou hast consumed them, they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return. (Jer. 5:3)

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Fig; Fig-Tree,
Garden; Gardener,
Olive, Olive Tree,
palmer-worm,
Vineyard

Cross References

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Deut. 28:22• 22Jehovah will smite thee with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with burning ague, and with drought, and with blight, and with mildew, and they shall pursue thee until thou perish. (Deut. 28:22)
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1 Kings 8:37• 37If there be famine in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blight, mildew, locust, caterpillar; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their gates; whatever plague, whatever sickness there be: (1 Kings 8:37)
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2 Chron. 6:28• 28If there be famine in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blight or mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemies besiege them in the land of their gates; whatever plague or whatever sickness there be: (2 Chron. 6:28)
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Hag. 2:17• 17I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the work of your hands; and ye turned not to me, saith Jehovah. (Hag. 2:17)
when, etc.
or, the multitude of your gardens, etc., did thepalmer worm, etc.
the palmer-worm.
Amos 7:1‑2• 1Thus did the Lord Jehovah shew unto me; and behold, he formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth, and behold, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings.
 2And it came to pass, when they had wholly eaten the grass of the land, that I said, O Lord Jehovah, forgive, I beseech thee! How shall Jacob arise? for he is small. (Amos 7:1‑2)
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Deut. 28:42• 42All thy trees and the fruit of thy ground shall the locust possess. (Deut. 28:42)
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Joel 1:4• 4that which the palmer-worm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpillar eaten. (Joel 1:4)
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Joel 2:25• 25And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmer-worm, my great army which I sent among you. (Joel 2:25)
yet.
Amos 4:6,8• 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.
 8And two, three, cities wandered unto one city, to drink water, and were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah. (Amos 4:6,8)
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Job 36:8‑13• 8And if, bound in fetters, they be held in cords of affliction,
 9Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions, because they have increased.
 10And he openeth their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.
 11If they hearken and serve him, they shall accomplish their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
 12But if they hearken not, they shall pass away by the sword, and expire without knowledge.
 13But the godless in heart heap up anger; they cry not when he bindeth them: (Job 36:8‑13)
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Isa. 1:5• 5Why should ye be smitten any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. (Isa. 1:5)
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Isa. 42:24‑25• 24Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? Did not Jehovah, he against whom we have sinned? And they would not walk in his ways, neither did they hearken unto his law.
 25And he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he took it not to heart. (Isa. 42:24‑25)
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Jer. 5:3• 3Jehovah, are not thine eyes upon fidelity? Thou hast smitten them, but they are not sore; thou hast consumed them, they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return. (Jer. 5:3)

J. N. Darby Translation

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I have smitten you with blasting and mildew; the palmer-wormf hath devoured the multitude of your gardens, and your vineyards, and your fig-trees and your olive-trees: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah.

JND Translation Notes

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See Joel 1.4.