Micahchapter 5
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Original Language
Micah 5— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition
In Jewish life
Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about Micah 5. 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
Read here as the Haftarah
- Micah 5:6 to 6:8, with the portion Balak (Numbers 22:2 to 25:9).
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.
Bethlehem Ephrathah, little among the thousands of Judah1
Micah 5:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Micah 5:1
And you, Bethlehem Ephrathah —whence David emanated, as it is stated (I Sam.:58): “The son of your bondsman, Jesse the Bethlehemite.” And Bethlehem is called Ephrath, as it is said (Gen.: 7): “On the road to Ephrath, that is Bethlehem.”
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
Micah 5:2· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Micah 5:3· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Micah 5:4· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Micah 5:5· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Micah 5:6· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
A remnant like dew, and like a lion among the flocks7
Micah 5:7· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Micah 5:8· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Micah 5:9· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Horses, cities, sorceries, and carved images cut off10
Micah 5:10· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Micah 5:10
And I will destroy your cities —And you will no longer need fortified cities.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
Micah 5:11· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Micah 5:12· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Micah 5:13· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Micah 5:14· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible