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Amos 5

Amos 5:24 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Buts let judgment
mishpat (Hebrew #4941)
properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penalty; abstractly, justice, including a participant's right or privilege (statutory or customary), or even a style
KJV usage: + adversary, ceremony, charge, X crime, custom, desert, determination, discretion, disposing, due, fashion, form, to be judged, judgment, just(-ice, -ly), (manner of) law(-ful), manner, measure, (due) order, ordinance, right, sentence, usest, X worthy, + wrong.
Pronounce: mish-pawt'
Origin: from 8199
μrun down
galal (Hebrew #1556)
to roll (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: commit, remove, roll (away, down, together), run down, seek occasion, trust, wallow.
Pronounce: gaw-lal'
Origin: a primitive root
as waters
mayim (Hebrew #4325)
water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen
KJV usage: + piss, wasting, water(-ing, (-course, -flood, -spring)).
Pronounce: mah'-yim
Origin: dual of a primitive noun (but used in a singular sense)
, and righteousness
tsdaqah (Hebrew #6666)
rightness (abstractly), subjectively (rectitude), objectively (justice), morally (virtue) or figuratively (prosperity)
KJV usage: justice, moderately, right(-eous) (act, -ly, -ness).
Pronounce: tsed-aw-kaw'
Origin: from 6663
as a mighty
'eythan (Hebrew #386)
from an unused root (meaning to continue); permanence; hence (concrete) permanent; specifically a chieftain
KJV usage: hard, mighty, rough, strength, strong.
Pronounce: ay-thawn'
Origin: or (shortened) ethan {ay-thawn'}
stream
nachal (Hebrew #5158)
or nachalah (Ezekiel 47:19; 48:28) {nakh-al-aw'}; from 5157 in its original sense; a stream, especially a winter torrent; (by implication) a (narrow) valley (in which a brook runs); also a shaft (of a mine)
KJV usage: brook, flood, river, stream, valley.
Pronounce: nakh'-al
Origin: or (feminine) nachlah (Psalm 124:4) {nakh'-law}
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Mic. 6:8• 8He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? (Mic. 6:8)
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roll.

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Cross References

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Amos 5:7,14‑15• 7Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
 14Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the Lord, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.
 15Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the Lord God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph. (Amos 5:7,14‑15)
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Job 29:12‑17• 12Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
 13The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
 14I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
 15I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
 16I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
 17And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth. (Job 29:12‑17)
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Prov. 21:3• 3To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice. (Prov. 21:3)
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Hos. 6:6• 6For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. (Hos. 6:6)
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Mic. 6:8• 8He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? (Mic. 6:8)
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Mark 12:32‑34• 32And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he:
 33And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.
 34And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And no man after that durst ask him any question. (Mark 12:32‑34)
run.
Heb. roll.

J. N. Darby Translation

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but let judgment roll down as waters, and righteousness as an ever-flowing stream.