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You who hateשֹׂנְאֵיgoodטוֹבand loveוְאֹהֲבֵיevil,רָעwho tear awayגֹּזְלֵיtheir skinעוֹרָםfrom off themמֵעֲלֵיהֶםand their fleshוּשְׁאֵרָםfrom offמֵעַלtheir bones;עַצְמוֹתָם
Micah 3:2
Study it in the app“You who hate good and love evil, who tear away their skin from off them and their flesh from off their bones;”
With the Hebrew beneath
Micah 3:2, word by word
- You who hateשֹׂנְאֵיsone
hate
To feel rejection and hostility toward someone, to the point of wishing him harm.
Where else “sone” appears- goodטוֹבtov
what is right
What is right and just, which God approves, the opposite of evil.
Where else “tov” appears- and loveאֹהֲבֵיohave
love
To care for someone from the heart and seek their good.
Where else “ohave” appears- evilרָעra
evil
What is evil, the opposite of good.
Where else “ra” appears- who tear awayגֹּזְלֵיgozle
seize, rob
Take by force, rob, tear away.
Where else “gozle” appears- their skinעוֹרָora
skin, leather
Skin, hide; leather.
Where else “ora” appears- and their fleshשְׁאֵרָsheera
flesh
The soft tissue of the body, or animal food.
Where else “sheera” appears- their bonesעַצְמוֹתָatsmota
bone
Each hard piece of the skeleton; also the body itself, of the dead or the living.
Where else “atsmota” appears
The context
1And I said: “Hear, please, heads of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel! Is it not for you to know justice?
2 · This verse (above)
3and who eat the flesh of my people, and their skin from off them they strip, and their bones they break, and they chop them up as in the pot, and like meat in the midst of the cauldron.”