Amoschapter 4
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Original Language
Amos 4— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition
In Jewish life
Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about Amos 4. Three things follow: where it is read, what is done because of it, and how the rabbis have taught it. The purpose is to inform a Christian reader what Jews believe and how Judaism was and is practised.
The reading
The yearly cycle does not read Amos 4. The Haftarah is drawn from the Prophets a passage at a time rather than continuously, so most chapters of most prophetic books are never read in the service, and this is one of them.
The verse numbers here are the ones a Hebrew Bible carries, which differ from an English Bible by a verse or two in several places. The Sephardi reading is named only where this site records a difference; communities vary beyond what is listed. What these books are, and how a Christian reader meets them →
Where the rabbis cite this chapter
4 rows sit beside their verses in the text, on 4 verses of this chapter. No row that speaks to the chapter as a whole is recorded. Every quote links to its full source.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria (sefaria.org); excerpts follow each version’s license, and every passage opens at its source.
How to read a word below: the Hebrewword, then how it sounds, then what it means, then its number in Strong’s concordance, a widely used lookup this site follows (H for Hebrew and Aramaic, G for Greek). Square brackets hold a word the English supplies that the Hebrew does not, angle brackets mark the Hebrew’s own grammatical elements that English renders as separate words, and the mark ס or פ is where the Hebrew manuscripts end a paragraph.
Cows of Bashan dragged away with hooks1
Amos 4:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Amos 4:1
cows of Bashan —This refers to the wives of the princes and the officers. Jonathan renders: wealthy in property.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
Amos 4:2· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Amos 4:3· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Come to Bethel and transgress — you love it so4
Amos 4:4· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Amos 4:5· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Yet you have not returned to me6
Amos 4:6· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Amos 4:7· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Amos 4:8· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Amos 4:9· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Amos 4:10· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Amos 4:10
after the manner of Egypt —Just as I sent upon you in the desert when you left Egypt.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
Amos 4:11· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Amos 4:11
like a brand Heb. כְּאוּד, tison in French, an ember; i.e, black and dark and burnt black.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
Prepare to meet your God, O Israel12
Amos 4:12· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Amos 4:13· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Amos 4:13
what his speech is —All his deeds are related in detail before him at the time of his death.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg