Amoschapter 6
14 verses · Amos · about 760 BC · The Twelve
Original Language
Amos 6— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition
In Jewish life
Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about Amos 6. 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 6. 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
6 rows sit beside their verses in the text, on 6 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.
Woe to those at ease in Zion, first to go into exile1
Amos 6:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Amos 6:1
those called the first of the nations —You were called the most praiseworthy of the nations.
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Amos 6:2· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Amos 6:3· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Amos 6:4· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Amos 6:5· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Amos 6:6· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Amos 6:7· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
The Lord abhors the pride of Jacob8
Amos 6:8· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Amos 6:9· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Amos 6:10· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Amos 6:10
And his kinsman and the one who saved him from burning shall carry him —His kinsman and his friend who saved his bones from the fire. In this manner, Jonathan rendered it: And his kinsman shall carry him out of the fire.
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Amos 6:11· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Amos 6:11
into splinters —That it shall be splintered into fine chips.
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Justice turned to poison, and boasting in Lo-debar12
Amos 6:12· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Amos 6:12
Will horses run on the rock —I.e, will they maintain their running when they change the order of the world?
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Amos 6:13· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Amos 6:13
over a thing of naught —Over their greatness and their wealth, which is nought, since it will not endure.
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Amos 6:14· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Amos 6:14
from the approach to Hamath —which is in the northwestern corner of Eretz Israel.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg