Bible Verse Dictionary
Amos 8:5 - Shekel
Verse | Strongs No. | Hebrew | |
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Saying | H559 | אָמַר |
[Verb] to say (used with great latitude) |
When | H4970 | מָתַי |
properly extent (of time); but used only adverbially (especially with other particles {prefixed}) when (either relative or interrogitive) |
will the new moon | H2320 | חֹדֶשׁ |
[Noun Masculine] the new moon; by implication a month |
be gone | H5674 | עָבַר |
[Verb] to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literally or figuratively; {transitively} {intransitively} intensively or causatively); specifically to cover (in copulation) |
that we may sell | H7666 | שָׁבַר |
[Verb] to deal in grain |
corn | H7668 | שֶׁבֶר |
[Noun Masculine] grain (as if broken into kernels) |
and the sabbath | H7676 | שַׁבָּת |
[Noun] {intermission} that {is} (specifically) the Sabbath |
that we may set forth | H6605 | פָּתַח |
[Verb] to open wide (literally or figuratively); specifically to {loosen} begin: {plough} carve |
wheat | H1250 | בָּר |
[Noun Masculine] grain of any kind (even while standing in the field); by extension the open country |
making the ephah small | H6994 | קָטֹן |
[Verb] to {diminish} that {is} be (causatively make) diminutive or (figuratively) of no account |
and the shekel | H8255 | שֶׁקֶל |
[Noun Masculine] probably a weight; used as a commercial standard |
great | H1431 | גָּדַל |
[Verb] properly to twist (compare {H1434 }) that {is} to be (causatively make) large (in various {senses} as in {body} {mind} estate or {honor} also in pride) |
and falsifying | H5791 | עָוַת |
[Verb] to wrest |
the balances | H3976 | מֹאזֵן |
[Noun Masculine] (only in the dual) a pair of scales |
by deceit | H4820 | מִרְמָה |
[Noun Feminine] fraud |
Definitions are taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.