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Malachi 3

Mal. 3:17 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And they shall be mineu, saith
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
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
of hosts
tsaba' (Hebrew #6635)
from 6633; a mass of persons (or figuratively, things), especially reg. organized for war (an army); by implication, a campaign, literally or figuratively (specifically, hardship, worship)
KJV usage: appointed time, (+) army, (+) battle, company, host, service, soldiers, waiting upon, war(-fare).
Pronounce: tsaw-baw'
Origin: or (feminine) tsbadah {tseb-aw-aw'}
, in that day
yowm (Hebrew #3117)
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
KJV usage: age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.
Pronounce: yome
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be hot
when I make up
`asah (Hebrew #6213)
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows)
KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, (fight-)ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ((a feast)), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be (warr-)ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Pronounce: aw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
my φjewels
cgullah (Hebrew #5459)
wealth (as closely shut up)
KJV usage: jewel, peculiar (treasure), proper good, special.
Pronounce: seg-ool-law'
Origin: feminine passive participle of an unused root meaning to shut up
w; and I will spare
chamal (Hebrew #2550)
to commiserate; by implication, to spare
KJV usage: have compassion, (have) pity, spare.
Pronounce: khaw-mal'
Origin: a primitive root
them, as a man
'iysh (Hebrew #376)
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
KJV usage: also, another, any (man), a certain, + champion, consent, each, every (one), fellow, (foot-, husband-)man, (good-, great, mighty) man, he, high (degree), him (that is), husband, man(-kind), + none, one, people, person, + steward, what (man) soever, whoso(-ever), worthy. Compare 802.
Pronounce: eesh
Origin: contracted for 582 (or perhaps rather from an unused root meaning to be extant)
spareth
chamal (Hebrew #2550)
to commiserate; by implication, to spare
KJV usage: have compassion, (have) pity, spare.
Pronounce: khaw-mal'
Origin: a primitive root
his own son
ben (Hebrew #1121)
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like 1, 251, etc.))
KJV usage: + afflicted, age, (Ahoh-) (Ammon-) (Hachmon-) (Lev-)ite, (anoint-)ed one, appointed to, (+) arrow, (Assyr-) (Babylon-) (Egypt-) (Grec-)ian, one born, bough, branch, breed, + (young) bullock, + (young) calf, X came up in, child, colt, X common, X corn, daughter, X of first, + firstborn, foal, + very fruitful, + postage, X in, + kid, + lamb, (+) man, meet, + mighty, + nephew, old, (+) people, + rebel, + robber, X servant born, X soldier, son, + spark, + steward, + stranger, X surely, them of, + tumultuous one, + valiant(-est), whelp, worthy, young (one), youth.
Pronounce: bane
Origin: from {SI 11129}1129{/SI}
that serveth
`abad (Hebrew #5647)
to work (in any sense); by implication, to serve, till, (causatively) enslave, etc.
KJV usage: X be, keep in bondage, be bondmen, bond-service, compel, do, dress, ear, execute, + husbandman, keep, labour(-ing man, bring to pass, (cause to, make to) serve(-ing, self), (be, become) servant(-s), do (use) service, till(-er), transgress (from margin), (set a) work, be wrought, worshipper,
Pronounce: aw-bad'
Origin: a primitive root
him.
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Titus 2:14• 14who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all lawlessness, and purify to himself a people for his own possession, zealous of good works. (Titus 2:14)
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1 Peter 2:9• 9But ye [are] a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for a possession, that ye might set out the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness unto his marvellous light; (1 Peter 2:9)
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Isa. 62:3• 3Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of Jehovah, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God. (Isa. 62:3)
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or, special treasure.

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Ministry on This Verse

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they shall.
Song of Sol. 2:16• 16My beloved [is] mine, and I his;{HR}He feedeth [his flock] among the lilies. (Song of Sol. 2:16)
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Jer. 31:33• 33This shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith Jehovah, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. (Jer. 31:33)
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Jer. 32:38‑39• 38and they shall be my people, and I will be their God:
 39and I will give them one heart and one way that they may fear me forever, for the good of them, and of their children after them: (Jer. 32:38‑39)
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Ezek. 16:8• 8{i}And I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, and behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness; and I swore unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord Jehovah, and thou becamest mine.{/i} (Ezek. 16:8)
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Ezek. 36:27‑28• 27And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
 28And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God. (Ezek. 36:27‑28)
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Zech. 13:9• 9And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. {i}They shall call on my name, and I will answer them: I will say, It is my people; and they shall say, Jehovah is my God.{/i} (Zech. 13:9)
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John 10:27‑30• 27My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me;
 28and I give them life eternal, and they shall in no wise ever perish, and no one shall seize them out of my hand.
 29My Father who hath given me [them] is greater than all; and no one is able to seize out of the hand of my Father.
 30I and the Father are one. (John 10:27‑30)
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John 17:9‑10,24• 9I request for them: not for the world do I request, but for those whom thou hast given me, for they are thine
 10(and all my things are thine, and thy things mine), and I am glorified in them.
 24Father, that what thou hast given me, I desire that, where I am, they also may be with me, that they may behold my glory which thou hast given me, because thou lovedst me before [the] world's foundation. (John 17:9‑10,24)
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1 Cor. 3:22‑23• 22whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come, all are yours,
 23and ye Christ's, and Christ God's. (1 Cor. 3:22‑23)
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1 Cor. 6:20• 20For ye were bought with a price: do then glorify God in your body. (1 Cor. 6:20)
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1 Cor. 15:23• 23but each in his own rank: [the] firstfruit Christ; then those that are the Christ's at his coming; (1 Cor. 15:23)
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Gal. 5:24• 24But they that are of Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and its lusts. (Gal. 5:24)
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2 Thess. 1:7‑10• 7and to you that are troubled rest with us, at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with angels of his power
 8in flaming fire, rendering vengeance to those that know not God and to those that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus;
 9Who shall pay as penalty everlasting destruction from [the] presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
 10when he shall come to be glorified in his saints and to be wondered at in all that believed (because our testimony unto you was believed) in that day. (2 Thess. 1:7‑10)
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Rev. 20:12‑15• 12And I saw the dead, the great and the little, standing before the throne, and books were opened; and another book was opened, which is {i}the book{/i} of life: and the dead were judged out of the things written in the books according to their works.
 13And the sea gave up the dead that were in it; and death and hades gave up the dead that were in them; and they were judged each according to their works.
 14And death and hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.
 15And if Anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire. (Rev. 20:12‑15)
jewels.
or, special treasure.
Ex. 19:5• 5Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine, (Ex. 19:5)
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Deut. 7:6• 6{i}For a holy people art thou unto Jehovah thy God: Jehovah thy God hath chosen thee to be unto him a people for a possession, above all the peoples that are upon the face of the earth.{/i} (Deut. 7:6)
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Deut. 14:2• 2{i}For thou art a holy people unto Jehovah thy God, and thee hath Jehovah chosen for a people of possession unto himself, out of all the peoples that are upon the face of the earth.{/i} (Deut. 14:2)
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Deut. 26:17‑18• 17Thou has avouched Jehovah this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice:
 18and Jehovah hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments; (Deut. 26:17‑18)
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Psa. 135:4• 4For Jah hath chosen Jacob for him,{HR}Israel for his peculiar treasure, (Psa. 135:4)
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Isa. 62:3‑4• 3Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of Jehovah, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.
 4Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken, neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah; for Jehovah delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married. (Isa. 62:3‑4)
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Titus 2:14• 14who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all lawlessness, and purify to himself a people for his own possession, zealous of good works. (Titus 2:14)
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1 Peter 2:9• 9But ye [are] a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for a possession, that ye might set out the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness unto his marvellous light; (1 Peter 2:9)
and I.
Neh. 13:22• 22{i}And I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to hallow the Sabbath day. Remember this also for me, my God, and spare me according to thy great loving-kindness!{/i} (Neh. 13:22)
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Psa. 103:8‑13• 8Jehovah [is] merciful and gracious,{HR}Slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness.
 9Not always will he chide, nor retain [anger] forever.
 10He hath not dealt with us according to our sins,{HR}Nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.
 11For, as height of heavens [is] above the earth,{HR}His lovingkindness is mighty over those that fear them.
 12As far as east from west,{HR}He hath put far from us our transgressions.
 13As a father's pity on children (sons),{HR}So hath Jehovah pity on those that fear him. (Psa. 103:8‑13)
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Isa. 26:20‑21• 20Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee; hide thyself for a little moment, until the indignation be past.
 21For, behold, Jehovah cometh forth out of his place to visit the iniquity of the inhabitants of the earth on them; and the earth shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain. (Isa. 26:20‑21)
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Jer. 31:20• 20Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith Jehovah. (Jer. 31:20)
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Zeph. 2:2• 2before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of Jehovah come upon you before the day of Jehovah’s anger come upon you. (Zeph. 2:2)
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Matt. 25:34• 34Then shall the King say to those on his right, Come ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the world's foundation. (Matt. 25:34)
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Rom. 8:32• 32He at least that spared not his own Son but gave him up for us all, how shall he not also with him freely grant us all things? (Rom. 8:32)
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2 Cor. 6:18• 18and will be to you for Father, and ye shall be to me for sons and daughters, saith [the] Lord Almighty. (2 Cor. 6:18)
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1 John 3:1‑3• 1See what love the Father hath given us, that we should be called children of God [and we are]. For this reason, the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
 2Beloved, now are we God's children, and not yet was it manifested what we shall be. We know that if he should be manifested we shall be like him, because we shall see him even as he is.
 3And every one that hath this hope on him purifieth himself even as he is pure. (1 John 3:1‑3)
son.
Mal. 1:6• 6A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith Jehovah of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name? (Mal. 1:6)
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1 Peter 1:13‑16• 13Wherefore, having girded up the loins of your mind, being sober, hope perfectly for the grace that is to be brought to you at Jesus Christ's revelation;
 14as children of obedience, not conformed to the former lusts in your ignorance,
 15but according to the Holy One that called you, be ye also holy in every [part of] conduct,
 16because it is written, Holy ye shall be, because I [am] holy. (1 Peter 1:13‑16)
• The term “jewels”—when I make up My jewels—shows the preciousness of the saints to God, their value in His eyes, and that though they are now concealed in obscurity, His eye is upon them, and He will collect them together, recognizing their beauty and excellency, the beauty and excellency which He Himself has put upon them. (“Malachi 3” by E. Dennett)
• Sparing His people, therefore, is sparing them from the judgments; and He will spare them as a man spareth his own son, bringing out the Lord’s heart and relationship to His own. (“Malachi 3” by E. Dennett)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And they shall be unto me a peculiar treasurea, saith Jehovah of hosts, in the day that I prepare; and I will spare them as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "my own possession," as Ex. 19.5.

W. Kelly Translation

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And they shall be mine, saith Jehovah of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.