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You sellתִּמְכֹּרyour peopleעַמְּךָfor nothing,בְלֹא הוֹןand you have notוְלֹאgainedרִבִּיתָby their price.בִּמְחִירֵיהֶם
Psalms 44:12
Study it in the app“You sell your people for nothing, and you have not gained by their price.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Psalms 44:12, word by word
- You sellתִּמְכֹּרtimkor
sell
To give something or someone to another in exchange for payment.
Where else “timkor” appears- your peopleעַמְּam
Ammi
Israel, YHWH's people: "my people".
Where else “am” appears- for nothingהוֹןhon
wealth
What someone owns in money, land and livestock; his fortune.
Where else “hon” appears- gainedרִבִּיתָribita
increase
To make an amount larger, adding and adding.
Where else “ribita” appears- by their priceמְחִירֵיmechire
price, payment
Price, payment.
Where else “mechire” appears
The context
11You give us up like sheep for food, and among the nations you have scattered us.
12 · This verse (above)
13You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and a derision to those around us.