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Malachi 2

Mal. 2:3 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Behold, I will κcorrupt
ga`ar (Hebrew #1605)
to chide
KJV usage: corrupt, rebuke, reprove.
Pronounce: gaw-ar'
Origin: a primitive root
your seed
zera` (Hebrew #2233)
seed; figuratively, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity
KJV usage: X carnally, child, fruitful, seed(-time), sowing- time.
Pronounce: zeh'-rah
Origin: from 2232
, and λspread
zarah (Hebrew #2219)
to toss about; by implication, to diffuse, winnow
KJV usage: cast away, compass, disperse, fan, scatter (away), spread, strew, winnow.
Pronounce: zaw-raw'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 2114)
dung
peresh (Hebrew #6569)
excrement (as eliminated)
KJV usage: dung.
Pronounce: peh'-resh
Origin: from 6567
upon your faces
paniym (Hebrew #6440)
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition (before, etc.)
KJV usage: + accept, a-(be- )fore(-time), against, anger, X as (long as), at, + battle, + because (of), + beseech, countenance, edge, + employ, endure, + enquire, face, favour, fear of, for, forefront(-part), form(-er time, -ward), from, front, heaviness, X him(-self), + honourable, + impudent, + in, it, look(-eth) (- s), X me, + meet, X more than, mouth, of, off, (of) old (time), X on, open, + out of, over against, the partial, person, + please, presence, propect, was purposed, by reason of, + regard, right forth, + serve, X shewbread, sight, state, straight, + street, X thee, X them(-selves), through (+ - out), till, time(-s) past, (un-)to(-ward), + upon, upside (+ down), with(- in, + -stand), X ye, X you.
Pronounce: paw-neem'
Origin: plural (but always as singular) of an unused noun (paneh {paw-neh'}; from 6437)
, even the dung
peresh (Hebrew #6569)
excrement (as eliminated)
KJV usage: dung.
Pronounce: peh'-resh
Origin: from 6567
of your solemn feasts
chag (Hebrew #2282)
from 2287; a festival, or a victim therefor
KJV usage: (solemn) feast (day), sacrifice, solemnity.
Pronounce: khag
Origin: or chag {khawg}
; and μone shall take you away
nasa' (Hebrew #5375)
a primitive root; to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absol. and rel. (as follows)
KJV usage: accept, advance, arise, (able to, (armor), suffer to) bear(-er, up), bring (forth), burn, carry (away), cast, contain, desire, ease, exact, exalt (self), extol, fetch, forgive, furnish, further, give, go on, help, high, hold up, honorable (+ man), lade, lay, lift (self) up, lofty, marry, magnify, X needs, obtain, pardon, raise (up), receive, regard, respect, set (up), spare, stir up, + swear, take (away, up), X utterly, wear, yield.
Pronounce: naw-saw'
Origin: or nacah (Psalm 4 : 6 (7)) {naw-saw'}
with it.
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or, reprove.
λ
scatter.
μ
or, it shall take you away to it.

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Ministry on This Verse

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I will.
corrupt.
or reprove.
spread.
Heb. scatter.
Mal. 2:9• 9Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law. (Mal. 2:9)
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1 Sam. 2:29‑30• 29Wherefore do ye trample upon my sacrifice and upon mine oblation which I have commanded in my habitation? And thou honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people.
30Wherefore the Lord Jehovah of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me forever: but now Jehovah saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
(1 Sam. 2:29‑30)
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1 Kings 14:10• 10therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam every male, him that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone. (1 Kings 14:10)
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2 Kings 9:36‑37• 36And they came back and told him. And he said, This is the word of Jehovah which he spake by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel;
37and the carcass of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel; so that they shall not say, This is Jezebel.
(2 Kings 9:36‑37)
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Job 20:7• 7Like his dung he perisheth forever;{HR}They that saw him shall say, Where [is] he? (Job 20:7)
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Psa. 83:10• 10They were destroyed at Endor;{HR}They became dung for the ground. (Psa. 83:10)
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Jer. 8:2• 2and they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth. (Jer. 8:2)
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Nah. 3:6• 6And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and will make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock. (Nah. 3:6)
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Luke 14:35• 35It is proper neither for land, nor for dung; it is cast out. He that hath ears to hear let him hear. (Luke 14:35)
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1 Cor. 4:13• 13slandered, we beseech. We became as the world's scum, off-scouring of all, until now. (1 Cor. 4:13)
one shall take you away with it.
or, it shall take you awayto it.
 It was ever a characteristic of the Jew, that the farther he had departed in heart from the Lord, the more he prided himself upon the externals of the Mosaic economy, and upon all the ritualistic observances he himself had connected with it. (See Matt. 15.) It was so at this time, and Jehovah warns them that He will humiliate them in the very things by which they exalted themselves. (Malachi 2 by E. Dennett)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Behold, I will rebuke your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, the dung of your feasts; and they shall take you away with it.

W. Kelly Translation

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Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.