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Malachi 2

Mal. 2:3 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Behold, I will κcorrupt
ga`ar (Hebrew #1605)
to chide
KJV usage: corrupt, rebuke, reprove.
Pronounce: gaw-ar'
Origin: a primitive root
your seed
zera` (Hebrew #2233)
seed; figuratively, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity
KJV usage: X carnally, child, fruitful, seed(-time), sowing- time.
Pronounce: zeh'-rah
Origin: from 2232
, and λspread
zarah (Hebrew #2219)
to toss about; by implication, to diffuse, winnow
KJV usage: cast away, compass, disperse, fan, scatter (away), spread, strew, winnow.
Pronounce: zaw-raw'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 2114)
dung
peresh (Hebrew #6569)
excrement (as eliminated)
KJV usage: dung.
Pronounce: peh'-resh
Origin: from 6567
upon your faces
paniym (Hebrew #6440)
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition (before, etc.)
KJV usage: + accept, a-(be- )fore(-time), against, anger, X as (long as), at, + battle, + because (of), + beseech, countenance, edge, + employ, endure, + enquire, face, favour, fear of, for, forefront(-part), form(-er time, -ward), from, front, heaviness, X him(-self), + honourable, + impudent, + in, it, look(-eth) (- s), X me, + meet, X more than, mouth, of, off, (of) old (time), X on, open, + out of, over against, the partial, person, + please, presence, propect, was purposed, by reason of, + regard, right forth, + serve, X shewbread, sight, state, straight, + street, X thee, X them(-selves), through (+ - out), till, time(-s) past, (un-)to(-ward), + upon, upside (+ down), with(- in, + -stand), X ye, X you.
Pronounce: paw-neem'
Origin: plural (but always as singular) of an unused noun (paneh {paw-neh'}; from 6437)
, even the dung
peresh (Hebrew #6569)
excrement (as eliminated)
KJV usage: dung.
Pronounce: peh'-resh
Origin: from 6567
of your solemn feasts
chag (Hebrew #2282)
from 2287; a festival, or a victim therefor
KJV usage: (solemn) feast (day), sacrifice, solemnity.
Pronounce: khag
Origin: or chag {khawg}
; and μone shall take you away
nasa' (Hebrew #5375)
a primitive root; to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absol. and rel. (as follows)
KJV usage: accept, advance, arise, (able to, (armor), suffer to) bear(-er, up), bring (forth), burn, carry (away), cast, contain, desire, ease, exact, exalt (self), extol, fetch, forgive, furnish, further, give, go on, help, high, hold up, honorable (+ man), lade, lay, lift (self) up, lofty, marry, magnify, X needs, obtain, pardon, raise (up), receive, regard, respect, set (up), spare, stir up, + swear, take (away, up), X utterly, wear, yield.
Pronounce: naw-saw'
Origin: or nacah (Psalm 4 : 6 (7)) {naw-saw'}
with it.
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or, reprove.
λ
scatter.
μ
or, it shall take you away to it.

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Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Joel 1:17• 17The seeds are rotten under their clods, the granaries are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered. (Joel 1:17)
corrupt.
or reprove.
spread.
Heb. scatter.
Mal. 2:9• 9And I also have made you contemptible and base before all the people, because ye have not kept my ways, but have respect of persons in administering the law. (Mal. 2:9)
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1 Sam. 2:29‑30• 29Wherefore do ye trample upon my sacrifice and upon mine oblation which I have commanded in my habitation? And thou honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the primest of all the oblations of Israel my people.
 30Wherefore Jehovah the God of Israel saith, I said indeed, Thy house and the house of thy father should walk before me for ever. But now Jehovah saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed. (1 Sam. 2:29‑30)
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1 Kings 14:10• 10therefore behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam every male, him that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone. (1 Kings 14:10)
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2 Kings 9:36‑37• 36And they came back and told him. And he said, This is the word of Jehovah, which he spoke through his servant Elijah the Tishbite saying, In the plot of Jizreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel;
 37and the carcase of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the open field in the plot of Jizreel, so that they shall not say, This is Jezebel. (2 Kings 9:36‑37)
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Job 20:7• 7Like his own dung doth he perish for ever; they which have seen him shall say, Where is he? (Job 20:7)
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Psa. 83:10• 10Who were destroyed at Endor; they became as dung for the ground. (Psa. 83:10)
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Jer. 8:2• 2and they shall spread them out to the sun and to the moon and to all the host of the heavens, which they have loved, and which they have served, and after which they have walked, and which they have sought, and which they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the ground. (Jer. 8:2)
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Nah. 3:6• 6And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazing stock. (Nah. 3:6)
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Luke 14:35• 35It is proper neither for land nor for dung; it is cast out. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. (Luke 14:35)
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1 Cor. 4:13• 13insulted, we entreat: we are become as the offscouring of the world, the refuse of all, until now. (1 Cor. 4:13)
one shall take you away with it.
or, it shall take you awayto it.
• It was ever a characteristic of the Jew, that the farther he had departed in heart from the Lord, the more he prided himself upon the externals of the Mosaic economy, and upon all the ritualistic observances he himself had connected with it. (See Matt. 15.) It was so at this time, and Jehovah warns them that He will humiliate them in the very things by which they exalted themselves. (“Malachi 2” by E. Dennett)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Behold, I will rebuke your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, the dung of your feasts; and they shall take you away with it.