Micah 3:2

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

ye who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

שֹׂ֥נְאֵי ט֖וֹב וְאֹ֣הֲבֵי *רעה **רָ֑ע גֹּזְלֵ֤י עוֹרָם֙ מֵֽעֲלֵיהֶ֔ם וּשְׁאֵרָ֖ם מֵעַ֥ל עַצְמוֹתָֽם׃

Transliteration

śōnʾê ṭôb and-ʾōhăbê rāʿ gōzlê ʿôrām from-upon-them and-šĕʾērām from-upon ʿaṣmôtām

Grammar Details

• *śōnʾê*: masculine plural construct participle - haters of
• *ṭôb*: masculine singular noun/adjective - good
• *ʾōhăbê*: masculine plural construct participle - lovers of
• *rāʿ*: masculine singular noun/adjective - evil
• *gōzlê*: masculine plural construct participle - plunderers of/those who tear off
• *ʿôrām*: masculine singular noun with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their skin
• *šĕʾērām*: masculine singular noun with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their flesh
• *ʿaṣmôtām*: feminine plural noun with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their bones

Word Meanings

• *śōnʾê*: haters of/those who hate
• *ṭôb*: good/goodness/welfare
• *ʾōhăbê*: lovers of/those who love
• *rāʿ*: evil/bad/wickedness
• *gōzlê*: plunderers/robbers/those who tear off
• *šĕʾērām*: their flesh/meat/food/kin

Referenced Verses

• Ezek 22:27 : 27 Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, [and] to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.
• Ps 53:4 : 4 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people [as] they eat bread, And call not upon God?
• Ezek 34:3 : 3 Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill the fatlings; but ye feed not the sheep.
• Amos 5:10-14 : 10 They hate him that reproveth in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly. 11 Forasmuch therefore as ye trample upon the poor, and take exactions from him of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink the wine thereof. 12 For I know how manifold are your transgressions, and how mighty are your sins— ye that afflict the just, that take a bribe, and that turn aside the needy in the gate [from their right]. 13 Therefore he that is prudent shall keep silence in such a time; for it is an evil time. 14 Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live; and so Jehovah, the God of hosts, will be with you, as ye say.
• Amos 8:4-6 : 4 Hear this, O ye that would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail, 5 saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit; 6 that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
• Zeph 3:3 : 3 Her princes in the midst of her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they leave nothing till the morrow.
• Zech 11:4-5 : 4 Thus said Jehovah my God: Feed the flock of slaughter; 5 whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty; and they that sell them say, Blessed be Jehovah, for I am rich; and their own shepherds pity them not.
• Luke 19:14 : 14 But his citizens hated him, and sent an ambassage after him, saying, We will not that this man reign over us.
• John 7:7 : 7 The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that its works are evil.
• John 15:18-19 : 18 If the world hateth you, ye know that it hath hated me before [it hated] you. 19 If ye were of the world, the world would love {G302} its own: but because ye are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore {G5124} the world hateth you.
• John 15:23-24 : 23 He that hateth me hateth my Father also. 24 If I had not done among them the works which none other did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
• John 18:40 : 40 They cried out therefore again, saying, Not this man, but Barabbas. (Now Barabbas was a robber.)
• Acts 7:51-52 : 51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers did, so do ye. 52 Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and they killed them that showed before of the coming of the Righteous One; of whom ye have now become betrayers and murderers;
• Rom 1:32 : 32 who, knowing the ordinance of God, that they that practise such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also consent with them that practise them.
• Rom 12:9 : 9 Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
• 2 Tim 3:3 : 3 without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,
• Ps 139:21-22 : 21 Do not I hate them, O Jehovah, that hate thee? And am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? 22 I hate them with perfect hatred: They are become mine enemies.
• Prov 28:4 : 4 They that forsake the law praise the wicked; But such as keep the law contend with them.
• Isa 3:15 : 15 what mean ye that ye crush my people, {H1792} and grind the face of the poor? saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.
• 1 Kgs 21:20 : 20 And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee, because thou hast sold thyself to do that which is evil in the sight of Jehovah.
• 1 Kgs 22:6-8 : 6 Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall I go against Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king. 7 But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of Jehovah besides, that we may inquire of him? 8 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, there is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Jehovah, Micaiah the son of Imlah: but I hate him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.
• 2 Chr 19:2 : 2 And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the wicked, and love them that hate Jehovah? for this thing wrath is upon thee from before Jehovah.
• Ps 15:4 : 4 In whose eyes a reprobate is despised, But who honoreth them that fear Jehovah; He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not;