Amos 7:5
King James Version
10 Jun 2026
“Then said I, O Lord God, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.”
קוּם
To arise, to stand up, to establish. Quwm. Arise shine for your light has come. God calls His people to get up. Passivity is not the posture of those who carry His glory.
נָא
please
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נָא
'I pray', 'now', or 'then'; added mostly to verbs (in the Imperative or Future), or to interjections, occasionally to an adverb or conjunction
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מִי
who?
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מִי
who? (occasionally, by a peculiar idiom, of things); also (indefinitely) whoever; often used in oblique construction with prefix or suffix
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קָטָן
is small
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קָטָן
abbreviated, i.e. diminutive, literally (in quantity, size or number) or figuratively (in age or importance)
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חָדַל
cease
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חָדַל
properly, to be flabby, i.e. (by implication) desist; (figuratively) be lacking or idle
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יַעֲקֹב
Jacob
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יַעֲקֹב
Jaakob, the Israelitish patriarch
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יְהֹוִה
Yahweh
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יְהֹוִה
{YHWH}
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