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Look at me:הִנְנִיI am rousing themמְעִירָםfromמִןthe placeהַמָּקוֹםto whichאֲשֶׁר שָׁמָּהyou soldמְכַרְתֶּםthem,אֹתָםand I will returnוַהֲשִׁבֹתִיyour recompenseגְמֻלְכֶםon your head.בְּרֹאשְׁכֶם
Joel 3:7
Study it in the app“Look at me: I am rousing them from the place to which you sold them, and I will return your recompense on your head.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Joel 3:7, word by word
- I am rousing themמְעִירָmeira
stir up
To move someone to act, as YHWH a king.
Where else “meira” appears- the placeמָּקוֹםmakom
place
A place, a spot.
Where else “makom” appears- you soldמְכַרְתֶּםmechartem
sell
To give something or someone to another in exchange for payment.
Where else “mechartem” appears- and I will returnהֲשִׁבֹתִיhashivoti
bring back
To return something, restore.
Where else “hashivoti” appears- your recompenseגְמֻלְgemul
recompense
What one receives for what one did.
Where else “gemul” appears- on your headרֹאשְׁrosh
head
The upper part of the body, where the face and hair are.
Where else “rosh” appears
The context
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.
7 · This verse (above)
8And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a nation far away; for YHWH has spoken.