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Amos 4

Amos 4:7 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And also I have withholden
mana` (Hebrew #4513)
to debar (negatively or positively) from benefit or injury
KJV usage: deny, keep (back), refrain, restrain, withhold.
Pronounce: maw-nah'
Origin: a primitive root
the rain
geshem (Hebrew #1653)
a shower
KJV usage: rain, shower.
Pronounce: gheh'-shem
Origin: from 1652
from you, when there were yet three
shalowsh (Hebrew #7969)
masculine shlowshah {shel-o-shaw'}; or shloshah {shel-o-shaw'}; a primitive number; three; occasionally (ordinal) third, or (multipl.) thrice
KJV usage: + fork, + often(-times), third, thir(-teen, -teenth), three, + thrice. Compare 7991.
Pronounce: shaw-loshe'
Origin: or shalosh {shaw-loshe'}
months
chodesh (Hebrew #2320)
the new moon; by implication, a month
KJV usage: month(-ly), new moon.
Pronounce: kho'-desh
Origin: from 2318
to the harvest
qatsiyr (Hebrew #7105)
severed, i.e. harvest (as reaped), the crop, the time, the reaper, or figuratively; also a limb (of a tree, or simply foliage)
KJV usage: bough, branch, harvest (man).
Pronounce: kaw-tseer'
Origin: from 7114
: and I caused it to rain
matar (Hebrew #4305)
to rain
KJV usage: (cause to) rain (upon).
Pronounce: maw-tar'
Origin: a primitive root
upon one
'echad (Hebrew #259)
properly, united, i.e. one; or (as an ordinal) first
KJV usage: a, alike, alone, altogether, and, any(-thing), apiece, a certain, (dai-)ly, each (one), + eleven, every, few, first, + highway, a man, once, one, only, other, some, together,
Pronounce: ekh-awd'
Origin: a numeral from 258
city
`iyr (Hebrew #5892)
or ayar (Judges 10:4) {aw-yar'}; from 5782 a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
KJV usage: Ai (from margin), city, court (from margin), town.
Pronounce: eer
Origin: or (in the plural) par {awr}
, and caused it not to rain
matar (Hebrew #4305)
to rain
KJV usage: (cause to) rain (upon).
Pronounce: maw-tar'
Origin: a primitive root
upon another
'echad (Hebrew #259)
properly, united, i.e. one; or (as an ordinal) first
KJV usage: a, alike, alone, altogether, and, any(-thing), apiece, a certain, (dai-)ly, each (one), + eleven, every, few, first, + highway, a man, once, one, only, other, some, together,
Pronounce: ekh-awd'
Origin: a numeral from 258
city
`iyr (Hebrew #5892)
or ayar (Judges 10:4) {aw-yar'}; from 5782 a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
KJV usage: Ai (from margin), city, court (from margin), town.
Pronounce: eer
Origin: or (in the plural) par {awr}
: one
'echad (Hebrew #259)
properly, united, i.e. one; or (as an ordinal) first
KJV usage: a, alike, alone, altogether, and, any(-thing), apiece, a certain, (dai-)ly, each (one), + eleven, every, few, first, + highway, a man, once, one, only, other, some, together,
Pronounce: ekh-awd'
Origin: a numeral from 258
piece
chelqah (Hebrew #2513)
properly, smoothness; figuratively, flattery; also an allotment
KJV usage: field, flattering(-ry), ground, parcel, part, piece of land (ground), plat, portion, slippery place, smooth (thing).
Pronounce: khel-kaw'
Origin: feminine of 2506
was rained
matar (Hebrew #4305)
to rain
KJV usage: (cause to) rain (upon).
Pronounce: maw-tar'
Origin: a primitive root
upon, and the piece
chelqah (Hebrew #2513)
properly, smoothness; figuratively, flattery; also an allotment
KJV usage: field, flattering(-ry), ground, parcel, part, piece of land (ground), plat, portion, slippery place, smooth (thing).
Pronounce: khel-kaw'
Origin: feminine of 2506
whereupon it rained
matar (Hebrew #4305)
to rain
KJV usage: (cause to) rain (upon).
Pronounce: maw-tar'
Origin: a primitive root
not withered
yabesh (Hebrew #3001)
to be ashamed, confused or disappointed; also (as failing) to dry up (as water) or wither (as herbage)
KJV usage: be ashamed, clean, be confounded, (make) dry (up), (do) shame(-fully), X utterly, wither (away).
Pronounce: yaw-bashe'
Origin: a primitive root
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Cross References

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I have.
Lev. 26:18‑21,23‑24,27‑28• 18And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.
 19And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
 20And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.
 21And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.
 23And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me;
 24Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.
 27And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me;
 28Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins. (Lev. 26:18‑21,23‑24,27‑28)
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Deut. 28:23‑24• 23And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.
 24The Lord shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed. (Deut. 28:23‑24)
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1 Kings 8:35‑36• 35When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest them:
 36Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, that thou teach them the good way wherein they should walk, and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance. (1 Kings 8:35‑36)
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2 Chron. 7:13‑14• 13If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;
 14If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. (2 Chron. 7:13‑14)
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Isa. 5:6• 6And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. (Isa. 5:6)
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Jer. 3:3• 3Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore's forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed. (Jer. 3:3)
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Jer. 5:24‑25• 24Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the Lord our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.
 25Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you. (Jer. 5:24‑25)
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Jer. 14:4,22• 4Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.
 22Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O Lord our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things. (Jer. 14:4,22)
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Hag. 1:10‑11• 10Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.
 11And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labor of the hands. (Hag. 1:10‑11)
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Zech. 14:17• 17And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain. (Zech. 14:17)
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James 5:17• 17Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. (James 5:17)
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Rev. 11:6• 6These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will. (Rev. 11:6)
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Joel 2:23• 23Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month. (Joel 2:23)
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John 4:35• 35Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. (John 4:35)
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Ex. 8:22• 22And I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there; to the end thou mayest know that I am the Lord in the midst of the earth. (Ex. 8:22)
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Ex. 9:4,26• 4And the Lord shall sever between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt: and there shall nothing die of all that is the children's of Israel.
 26Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail. (Ex. 9:4,26)
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Ex. 10:23• 23They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings. (Ex. 10:23)
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Judg. 6:37‑40• 37Behold, I will put a fleece of wool in the floor; and if the dew be on the fleece only, and it be dry upon all the earth beside, then shall I know that thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said.
 38And it was so: for he rose up early on the morrow, and thrust the fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water.
 39And Gideon said unto God, Let not thine anger be hot against me, and I will speak but this once: let me prove, I pray thee, but this once with the fleece; let it now be dry only upon the fleece, and upon all the ground let there be dew.
 40And God did so that night: for it was dry upon the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground. (Judg. 6:37‑40)
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1 Cor. 4:7• 7For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it? (1 Cor. 4:7)
and the.
Joel 1:10‑18• 10The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
 11Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.
 12The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.
 13Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.
 14Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the Lord your God, and cry unto the Lord,
 15Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
 16Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
 17The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
 18How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate. (Joel 1:10‑18)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And I also have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece of land was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.