And Iוְ אֲנִיalsoגַםhave madeנָתַתִּיyouאֶתְכֶםdespisedנִבְזִיםand lowוּשְׁפָלִיםbefore allלְכָלthe people,הָעָםinasmuch asכְּפִי אֲשֶׁרyou are notאֵינְכֶםkeepingשֹׁמְרִיםmy waysדְּרָכַיbut are liftingוְנֹשְׂאִיםthe faceפָּנִיםin the instruction.בַּתּוֹרָה
Malachi 2:9
Study it in the app“And I also have made you despised and low before all the people, inasmuch as you are not keeping my ways but are lifting the face in the instruction.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Malachi 2:9, word by word
- have madeנָתַתִּיnatati
make
To make someone something: "I have made you a father".
Where else “natati” appears- despisedנִבְזִיםnivzim
despise
Despise, think little of.
Where else “nivzim” appears- and lowשְׁפָלִיםshefalim
humble
Modest in spirit.
Where else “shefalim” appears- the peopleעָםam
crowd
The people gathered in a place: the crowd, or the troops that go out to war.
Where else “am” appears- inasmuch asפִיfi
according to
Literally "by the mouth of": just as something directs; or a portion.
Where else “fi” appears- keepingשֹׁמְרִיםshomrim
keep
To obey the covenant or the commands.
Where else “shomrim” appears- my waysדְּרָכַderacha
manner
The way one lives and acts.
Where else “deracha” appears- but are liftingנֹשְׂאִיםnosim
lift up
To direct the eyes upward, make the voice loud, or put up the hand.
Where else “nosim” appears- the faceפָּנִיםpanim
face
The front of the head, of someone or of God.
Where else “panim” appears- in the instructionתּוֹרָהtora
teaching of YHWH
What YHWH teaches his people so they may live.
Where else “tora” appears
Translation note
“Lifting the face,” which in 1:8-9 is receiving with favor, here can be understood as favoring some over others in teaching.
The context
8But you have turned aside from the way; you have made many stumble in the instruction; you have destroyed the covenant of Levi, says YHWH Tsevaot.
9 · This verse (above)
10Is there not one father for all of us? Has not one El created us? Why do we betray, each his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?