Joel 3:9

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Proclaim ye this among the nations; prepare war; stir up the mighty men; let all the men of war draw near, let them come up.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

קִרְאוּ־זֹאת֙ בַּגּוֹיִ֔ם קַדְּשׁ֖וּ מִלְחָמָ֑ה הָעִ֙ירוּ֙ הַגִּבּוֹרִ֔ים יִגְּשׁ֣וּ יַֽעֲל֔וּ כֹּ֖ל אַנְשֵׁ֥י הַמִּלְחָמָֽה

Transliteration

Qirʾû-this in-the-gôyim qaddəšû milḥāmāh hāʿîrû the-gibbôrîm yiggəšû yaʿălû all ʾanšê the-milḥāmāh

Grammar Details

*qirʾû*: qal imperative masculine plural - proclaim/call out
*zōʾṯ*: demonstrative feminine singular - this
*baggôyim*: preposition + definite article + masculine plural noun - among the nations
*qaddəšû*: piel imperative masculine plural - sanctify/prepare
*milḥāmāh*: feminine singular noun - war/battle
*hāʿîrû*: hiphil imperative masculine plural - arouse/stir up
*haggibbôrîm*: definite article + masculine plural noun - the mighty men/warriors
*yiggəšû*: qal imperfect 3rd person masculine plural - let them approach
*yaʿălû*: qal imperfect 3rd person masculine plural - let them go up
*kōl*: noun construct - all of
*ʾanšê*: masculine plural construct - men of
*hammilḥāmāh*: definite article + feminine singular noun - the war/battle

Word Meanings

*qirʾû*: proclaim/call out/announce
*qaddəšû*: sanctify/prepare/consecrate
*milḥāmāh*: war/battle/conflict
*hāʿîrû*: arouse/stir up/awaken
*gibbôrîm*: mighty men/warriors/heroes
*yiggəšû*: approach/draw near/come close
*yaʿălû*: go up/ascend/advance
*ʾanšê hammilḥāmāh*: men of war/soldiers/warriors

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Isa 8:9-9 : 9 Make an uproar, O ye peoples, and be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces. 10 Take counsel together, and it shall be brought to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.
Jer 46:3-4 : 3 Prepare ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle. 4 Harness the horses, and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, put on the coats of mail.
Ezek 38:7 : 7 Be thou prepared, yea, prepare thyself, thou, and all thy companies that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
Mic 3:5 : 5 Thus saith Jehovah concerning the prophets that make my people to err; that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and whoso putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him:
Ps 96:10 : 10 Say among the nations, Jehovah reigneth: The world also is established that it cannot be moved: He will judge the peoples with equity.
Jer 50:2 : 2 Declare ye among the nations and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is put to shame, Merodach is dismayed; her images are put to shame, her idols are dismayed.
Ezek 21:21-22 : 21 For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he shook the arrows to and fro, he consulted the teraphim, he looked in the liver. 22 In his right hand was the divination [for] Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up mounds, to build forts.
Isa 34:1 : 1 Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye peoples: let the earth hear, and the fulness thereof; the world, and all things that come forth from it.
Jer 31:10 : 10 Hear the word of Jehovah, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off; and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock.

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