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Forאֲשֶׁרmy silverכַּסְפִּיand my goldוּזְהָבִיyou have taken,לְקַחְתֶּםand my precious things,וּמַחֲמַדַּיthe good ones,הַטֹּבִיםyou have broughtהֲבֵאתֶםinto your temples.לְהֵיכְלֵיכֶם
Joel 3:5
Study it in the app“For my silver and my gold you have taken, and my precious things, the good ones, you have brought into your temples.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Joel 3:5, word by word
- my silverכַּסְפִּkaspi
silver
A white, valuable metal, the one most used after gold.
Where else “kaspi” appears- and my goldזְהָבִzehavi
gold
Gold.
Where else “zehavi” appears- you have takenלְקַחְתֶּםlekachtem
seize
To take away, seize.
Where else “lekachtem” appears- and my precious thingsמַחֲמַדַּmachamada
desirable thing, delight
What is desirable, what pleases the eyes: that which someone most loves or values.
Where else “machamada” appears- the good onesטֹּבִיםtovim
good
What is as it should be and gives delight: sound, useful, beautiful or valuable.
Where else “tovim” appears- you have broughtהֲבֵאתֶםhavetem
bring
To bring something or someone.
Where else “havetem” appears- into your templesהֵיכְלֵיhechle
temple
Literally "palace": YHWH's great house.
Where else “hechle” appears
The context
4And also, what are you to me, Tyre and Sidon and all the regions of Philistia? Are you paying me back a recompense? And if you are repaying me, swiftly, speedily I will return your recompense on your head.
5 · This verse (above)
6And the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem you have sold to the children of the Greeks, in order to remove them far from their territory.