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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 Jehovah 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 Jehovah, 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 Jehovah the God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph. (Amos 5:7,14‑15)
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Job 29:12‑17• 12For I delivered the poor that cried,{HR}And the fatherless that had no helper.
 13The blessing of the perishing came on me,{HR}And the heart of the widow I made sing.
 14Righteousness I put on, and it put me on,{HR}As a robe and a diadem mine equity.
 15I was eyes to the blind,{HR}And feet [was] I to the lame,
 16A father to the needy,{HR}And the cause I knew not I searched.
 17And I broke the jaw of the wicked,{HR}And flung the prey out of his teeth. (Job 29:12‑17)
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Prov. 21:3• 3To exercise justice and judgment{HR}[Is] more acceptable to Jehovah 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 Jehovah 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, Right, teacher, thou hast said the truth; for he is one, and there is none other;
 33and to love him with all the heart, and with all the intelligence, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love neighbour as oneself, is more than the burnt-offerings and sacrifices.
 34And Jesus, seeing that he had answered intelligently, said to him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And no one dared question him anymore. (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.

W. Kelly Translation

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But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.