Amos 8:1
Amos 7:7
wall <02346> [a wall.]
Amos 6:2
Journey over <05674> [Pass.]
Calneh <03641> [Calneh.]
[Calno.]
Hamath-Rabbah <02574> [Hamath.]
Gath <01661> [Gath.]
superior <02896> [better.]
Amos 7:1
showed <07200> [shewed.]
making <03335> [he.]
locusts <01462> [grasshoppers. or, green worms.]
{Govai,} in Arabic {gabee,} "locusts," probably in their caterpillar state, in which they are most destructive. This is supposed to have been an emblem of the first invasion of the Assyrians.
harvest <01488> [mowings.]
Or rather, feedings or grazings, as the people of the East make no hay. This was probably in the month of March, which is the only time of the year that the Arabs to this day feed their horses with grass.
Amos 7:4
saw <07200> [shewed.]
summoning <07121> [called.]
This is supposed to denote the invasion of Tiglathpileser, which threatened entire destruction.
Amos 3:9
Make this announcement <08085> [Publish.]
Ashdod <0795> [Ashdod.]
hills <02022> [the mountains.]
Observe <07200> [and behold.]
oppressive <06217> [oppressed. or, oppressions.]
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 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.]
Amos 9:1
saw <07200> [I saw.]
altar <04196> [upon.]
Strike <05221> [Smite.]
tops of the support pillars <03730> [lintel. or, chapiter, or knop. cut them. or, wound them. in the head.]
run away <05127> [shall not flee.]
