Micah 2:4
King James Version
9 Jun 2026
“In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! turning away he hath divided our fields.”
הָיָה
I AM. Hayah. The self-existent one. When Moses asked God His name God said I AM THAT I AM. Not I was or I will be but I AM. Always present always existing always enough. Jesus used the same words: before Abraham was I AM.
עַל
on/ you
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עַל
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
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עַם
people/ my
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עַם
People, nation, folk. Am. You are My people and I am your God. This mutual belonging is the heart of the covenant.
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חָלַק
he apportions
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חָלַק
to be smooth (figuratively); by implication (as smooth stones were used for lots) to apportion or separate
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שָׁדַד
utterly devastate
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שָׁדַד
properly, to be burly, i.e. (figuratively) powerful (passively, impregnable); by implication, to ravage
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מָשָׁל
a saying
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מָשָׁל
properly, a pithy maxim, usually of metaphorical nature; hence, a simile (as an adage, poem, discourse)
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נָשָׂא
someone will lift up
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נָשָׂא
To lift up, to bear, to forgive. Nasa. God lifts the weight of guilt. He carries what we cannot carry.
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מוּשׁ
he removes it
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מוּשׁ
to withdraw (both literally and figuratively, whether intransitive or transitive)
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חֵלֶק
the portion of
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חֵלֶק
properly, smoothness (of the tongue); also an allotment
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מוּר
he exchanges
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מוּר
to alter; by implication, to barter, to dispose of
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שָׂדֶה
fields/ our
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שָׂדֶה
a field (as flat)
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נְהִי
a wailing
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נְהִי
an elegy
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