Amos 5:24

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Bible > Amos > Chapter 5 > Verse 24

Amos 5:24


← Amos 5:23 Amos 5:24 (KJV) Amos 5:25 →
Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

But let judgmentH4941 run downH1556 as watersH4325, and righteousnessH6666 as a mightyH386 streamH5158.


Original Hebrew

וְיִגַּל כַּמַּיִם מִשְׁפָּט וּצְדָקָה כְּנַחַל אֵיתָן׃

Hebrew Transliteration Strong's Morphology Gloss
וְ/יִגַּ֥ל
ve./yi.Gal H1556 HC/VNi3ms and/ it may roll on
כַּ/מַּ֖יִם
ka./Ma.yim H4325 HRd/Ncmpa like (the)/ water
מִשְׁפָּ֑ט
mish.Pat H4941 HNcmsa justice
וּ/צְדָקָ֖ה
u./tze.da.Kah H6666 HC/Ncfsa and/ righteousness
כְּ/נַ֥חַל
ke./Na.chal H5158 HR/Ncmsa like/ a wadi
אֵיתָֽן
'ei.Tan H386 HAamsa ever-flowing
Strong's References
  • H386 — אֵיתָן (ʼêythân, ay-thawn'): or (shortened) אֵתָן (ʼêthân) ; from an unused root (meaning to continue); permanence; hence (concrete) permanent; specifically a chieftain; hard, mighty, rough, strength, strong.
  • H1556 — גָּלַל (gâlal, gaw-lal'): a primitive root; to roll (literally or figuratively); commit, remove, roll (away, down, together), run down, seek occasion, trust, wallow.
  • H4325 — מַיִם (mayim, mah'-yim): dual of a primitive noun (but used in a singular sense); water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen; [phrase] piss, wasting, water(-ing, (-course, -flood, -spring)).
  • H4941 — מִשְׁפָּט (mishpâṭ, mish-pawt'): from שָׁפַט (shâphaṭ) H8199; properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penalty; abstractly, justice, including a participant's right or privilege (statutory or customary), or even a style; [phrase] adversary, ceremony, charge, [idiom] crime, custom, desert, determination, discretion, disposing, due, fashion, form, to be judged, judgment, just(-ice, -ly), (manner of) law(-ful), manner, measure, (due) order, ordinance, right, sentence, usest, [idiom] worthy, [phrase] wrong.
  • H5158 — נַחַל (nachal, nakh'-al): or (feminine) נַחְלָה (nachlâh); (Psalm 124:4), or נַחֲלָה (nachălâh); (Ezekiel 47:19; Ezekiel 48:28), from נָחַל (nâchal) H5157 in its original sense; a stream, especially a winter torrent; (by implication) a (narrow) valley (in which a brook runs); also a shaft (of a mine); brook, flood, river, stream, valley.
  • H6666 — צְדָקָה (tsᵉdâqâh, tsed-aw-kaw'): from צָדַק (tsâdaq) H6663; rightness (abstractly), subjectively (rectitude), objectively (justice), morally (virtue) or figuratively (prosperity); justice, moderately, right(-eous) (act, -ly, -ness).
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