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Do horsesהַ סוּסִיםrunיְרֻצוּןon the rock?בַּסֶּלַעDoes one plowאִם יַחֲרוֹשׁthere with oxen?בַּבְּקָרִיםForכִּיyou have turnedהֲפַכְתֶּםjusticeמִשְׁפָּטinto poisonלְרֹאשׁand the fruitוּפְרִיof righteousnessצְדָקָהinto wormwood;לְלַעֲנָה
Amos 6:12
Study it in the app“Do horses run on the rock? Does one plow there with oxen? For you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood;”
With the Hebrew beneath
Amos 6:12, word by word
- Do horsesסוּסִיםsusim
horse
A war and draft animal that pulls chariots, or the one who rides it.
Where else “susim” appears- runיְרֻצוּyerutsu
run
To move quickly on foot, at a run.
Where else “yerutsu” appears- on the rockסֶּלַעsela
crag
A great mountain stone, a place of refuge.
Where else “sela” appears- Does one plowיַחֲרוֹשׁyacharosh
plow
To drive the plow, opening furrows in the soil.
Where else “yacharosh” appears- there with oxenבְּקָרִיםbekarim
cattle, herd
Cattle: cows, oxen, bulls; a herd.
Where else “bekarim” appears- you have turnedהֲפַכְתֶּםhafachtem
change
To change something into something else.
Where else “hafachtem” appears- justiceמִשְׁפָּטmishpat
justice
What is right and fair.
Where else “mishpat” appears- into poisonרֹאשׁrosh
poison plant
A bitter, harmful plant.
Where else “rosh” appears- and the fruitפְרִיferi
fruit
What a tree or the land produces, which is eaten.
Where else “feri” appears- of righteousnessצְדָקָהtsedaka
righteous deeds
Doing what is just, upright deeds.
Where else “tsedaka” appears- into wormwoodלַעֲנָהlaana
wormwood
Wormwood: a very bitter plant; an image of what ends in bitterness.
Where else “laana” appears
Translation note
With another division of the letters it reads “Does one plow the sea with oxen?”
The context
11For look, YHWH commands, and he will strike the great house into fragments, and the small house into splinters.
12 · This verse (above)
13you who rejoice in Lo-debar, who say, “Have we not by our strength taken for ourselves Karnaim?”