Amoschapter 7
17 verses · Amos · about 760 BC · The Twelve
Original Language
Amos 7— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition
In Jewish life
Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about Amos 7. 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 7. 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.
The locusts — and the LORD repented1
Amos 7:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Amos 7:1
Thus.. showed me —retribution, that He wished to bring locusts.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
Amos 7:2· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Amos 7:3· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
The devouring fire — and the LORD repented4
Amos 7:4· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Amos 7:5· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Amos 7:6· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
A plumb line set in the midst of my people7
Amos 7:7· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Amos 7:8· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Amos 7:9· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Amaziah tells the seer to go earn his bread in Judah10
Amos 7:10· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Amos 7:11· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Amos 7:11
Jeroboam shall die by the sword —But he did not say that, only, “And I will rise upon the house of Jeroboam,” and that refers to his son, Zechariah, who was assassinated by Shallum son of Jabesh (II Kings 15).
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
Amos 7:12· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Amos 7:13· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Amos 7:13
But do not continue to prophesy in Bethel —for here they mention only the name of the idols.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
Amos 7:14· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Amos 7:14
I am neither a prophet —I am not one of your false prophets, who take pay for prophesying.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
Amos 7:15· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Amos 7:16· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Amos 7:17· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible