What Does Amos 6:14 Mean?

(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed

lo!; also (as expressing surprise) if

“But behold I will raise up”

to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative)

above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications

“O house”

a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)

“of Israel”

he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity

“saith”

an oracle

“the LORD”

(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god

“the God”

gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme god; occasionally applied by way of

“of hosts”

a mass of persons (or figuratively, things), especially reg. organized for war (an army); by implication, a campaign, literally or figuratively (speci

“against you a nation”

a foreign nation; hence, a gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts

“and they shall afflict”

properly, to press, i.e., (figuratively) to distress

properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)

“you from the entering in”

to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)

“of Hemath”

chamath, a place in syria

as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)

“unto the river”

a stream, especially a winter torrent; (by implication) a (narrow) valley (in which a brook runs); also a shaft (of a mine)

“of the wilderness”

a desert; especially (with the article prefix) the (generally) sterile valley of the jordan and its continuation to the red sea