Amos 7:11-12
Amos <05986> [thus.]
Jeroboam <03379> [Jeroboam.]
Israel <03478> [and Israel.]
visionary <02374> [O thou.]
<03212> [go.]
Earn <0398> [eat.]
Amos 7:14
prophet ... profession <05030> [neither.]
herdsman <0951> [an herdman.]
took care <01103> [a gatherer.]
Rather, as {bolais} is rendered by the LXX. and Vulgate, [knizon,] {vellicans,} "a scraping," or a scraper of sycamores; for the fruit does not ripen till it is rubbed with iron combs.
[sycamore fruit. or, wild figs.]
Amos 1:1
record of what <01697> [The words.]
herdsmen <05349> [who.]
Tekoa <08620> [Tekoa.]
prophecies ..... revealed <02372> [he saw.]
time <03117> [in the.]
[Azariah.]
time <03117> [and in.]
earthquake <07494> [the earthquake.]
Amos 7:8
Amos <05986> [Amos.]
Tin ............. tin <0594> [a plumbline.]
This was an emblem of strict justice; and intimated that God would now visit them according to their iniquities.
place <07760> [I will set.]
<03254> [I will not.]
Amos 7:10
priest <03548> [the priest.]
This was truly a lying prophet; there was not one word of truth in his message to Jeroboam.
conspiring against <07194> [hath.]
cannot <03201> [not.]
Amos 8:2
Amos <05986> [Amos.]
basket <03619> [A basket.]
end <07093> [the end.]
There is here not only an allusion to the nature of the summer fruit, which must be eaten as soon as gathered, but also a paronomasia upon the words {kayitz,} "summer fruit," and {ketz,} "an end."
<03254> [I will not.]
