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And Iוְאָנֹכִיbroughtהֶעֱלֵיתִיyouאֶתְכֶםup from the landמֵאֶרֶץof Egypt,מִצְרָיִםand ledוָאוֹלֵךְyouאֶתְכֶםin the wildernessבַּמִּדְבָּרfortyאַרְבָּעִיםyears,שָׁנָהto possessלָרֶשֶׁתthe landאֶרֶץof the Amorite.הָאֱמֹרִי
Amos 2:10
Study it in the app“And I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you in the wilderness forty years, to possess the land of the Amorite.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Amos 2:10, word by word
- broughtהֶעֱלֵיתִיheeleti
bring up
To make someone go up: "I led you up from Egypt".
Where else “heeleti” appears- up from the landאֶרֶץerets
land
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “erets” appears- of Egyptמִצְרָיִםmitsrayim
Egypt, Mizraim
See it on the mapWhere else “mitsrayim” appears- and ledאוֹלֵךְolech
lead
To lead someone to another place, or to bring him along.
Where else “olech” appears- in the wildernessמִּדְבָּרmidbar
wilderness
Dry, unfarmed land where flocks graze.
Where else “midbar” appears- fortyאַרְבָּעִיםarbaim
forty
Forty.
Where else “arbaim” appears- yearsשָׁנָהshana
year
Each full turn of the seasons, by which time is counted.
Where else “shana” appears- to possessרֶשֶׁתreshet
possess
To occupy a land and make it one's own.
Where else “reshet” appears- of the Amoriteאֱמֹרִיemori
Amorite
Amorite: one of the main peoples of Canaan before Israel.
Where else “emori” appears
Places in this verse
Egypt
Today: Egypt (Nile Valley)
A country in northeast Africa along the Nile River, southwest of Israel.
Joseph was sold into it, and his family went down to live there (Gen 37:28; 46:6). God brought Israel out of it with a mighty hand (Exod 12:41). The child Jesus fled there with his parents (Matt 2:14).
The context
9Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; and I destroyed his fruit above and his roots below.
10 · This verse (above)
11And I raised up some of your sons as prophets, and some of your young men as Nazirites. Is it not so, children of Israel? declares YHWH.