Micahchapter 4
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Original Language
Micah 4— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition
In Jewish life
Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about Micah 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 Micah 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
2 rows sit beside their verses in the text, on 2 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 mountain of the LORD's house lifted above the hills1
Micah 4:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Micah 4:2· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Micah 4:3· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Micah 4:4· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Micah 4:5· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
The lame gathered; dominion returns to the tower of the flock6
Micah 4:6· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Micah 4:7· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Micah 4:8· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Pangs like a woman in travail, then a horn of iron9
Micah 4:9· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Micah 4:10· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Micah 4:11· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Micah 4:11
who say, “Let her be guilty” —Let Zion be guilty of her sins, and let her iniquity be visited upon her.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
Micah 4:12· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Micah 4:12
for He gathered them as sheaves to a threshing floor —And eventually, He will gather them to the Valley of Jehoshaphat and around Jerusalem to war, as they gather a sheaf in order to thresh it there.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
Micah 4:13· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible