King James Version:
(The Lord speaking is red text)
Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee.
Complete Jewish Bible:
Shave the hair from your head as you mourn for the children who were your delight; make yourselves as bald as vultures, for they have gone from you into exile.
Berean Standard Bible:
Shave yourselves bald and cut off your hair in mourning for your precious children; make yourselves as bald as an eagle, for they will go from you into exile.
American Standard Version:
Make thee bald, and cut off thy hair for the children of thy delight: enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee.
KJV with Strong’s Numbers:
Make thee bald{H7139}, and poll{H1494} thee for thy delicate{H8588} children{H1121}; enlarge{H7337} thy baldness{H7144} as the eagle{H5404}; for they are gone into captivity{H1540} from thee.
Cross-References (KJV):
Isaiah 22:12
- And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
Jeremiah 7:29
- ¶ Cut off thine hair, [O Jerusalem], and cast [it] away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
Job 1:20
- ¶ Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,
Jeremiah 16:6
- Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall [men] lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:
Amos 8:10
- And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only [son], and the end thereof as a bitter day.
Isaiah 3:16
- ¶ Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing [as] they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:
Isaiah 3:26
- And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she [being] desolate shall sit upon the ground.
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Commentary for Micah 1:16
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Strong's Numbers and Definitions:
Note: H = Hebrew (OT), G = Greek (NT)
- Strong's Number: H7139
There are 5 instances of this translation in the Bible
Lemma: קָרַח
Transliteration: qârach
Pronunciation: kaw-rakh'
Description: a primitive root; to depilate; make (self) bald. - Strong's Number: H1494
There are 15 instances of this translation in the Bible
Lemma: גַּזָז
Transliteration: gazâz
Pronunciation: gaw-zaz'
Description: a primitive root (akin to גּוּז); to cut off; specifically to shear aflock or shave the hair; figuratively to destroy an enemy; cut off (down), poll, shave, (sheep-) shear(-er). - Strong's Number: H8588
There are 5 instances of this translation in the Bible
Lemma: תַּעֲנוּג
Transliteration: taʻănûwg
Pronunciation: tah-an-oog'
Description: or תַּעֲנֻג; and (feminine) תַּעֲנֻגָה; from עָנַג; luxury; delicate, delight, pleasant. - Strong's Number: H1121
There are 3654 instances of this translation in the Bible
Lemma: בֵּן
Transliteration: bên
Pronunciation: bane
Description: from בָּנָה; a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like father or brother), etc.); [phrase] afflicted, age, (Ahoh-) (Ammon-) (Hachmon-) (Lev-) ite, (anoint-) ed one, appointed to, ([phrase]) arrow, (Assyr-) (Babylon-) (Egypt-) (Grec-) ian, one born, bough, branch, breed, [phrase] (young) bullock, [phrase] (young) calf, [idiom] came up in, child, colt, [idiom] common, [idiom] corn, daughter, [idiom] of first, [phrase] firstborn, foal, [phrase] very fruitful, [phrase] postage, [idiom] in, [phrase] kid, [phrase] lamb, ([phrase]) man, meet, [phrase] mighty, [phrase] nephew, old, ([phrase]) people, [phrase] rebel, [phrase] robber, [idiom] servant born, [idiom] soldier, son, [phrase] spark, [phrase] steward, [phrase] stranger, [idiom] surely, them of, [phrase] tumultuous one, [phrase] valiant(-est), whelp, worthy, young (one), youth. - Strong's Number: H7337
There are 25 instances of this translation in the Bible
Lemma: רָחַב
Transliteration: râchab
Pronunciation: raw-khab'
Description: a primitive root; to broaden (intransitive or transitive, literal or figurative); be an en-(make) large(-ing), make room, make (open) wide. - Strong's Number: H7144
There are 11 instances of this translation in the Bible
Lemma: קׇרְחָה
Transliteration: qorchâh
Pronunciation: kor-khaw'
Description: or קׇרְחָא; (Ezekiel 27:31), from קָרַח; baldness; bald(-ness), [idiom] utterly. - Strong's Number: H5404
There are 26 instances of this translation in the Bible
Lemma: נֶשֶׁר
Transliteration: nesher
Pronunciation: neh'-sher
Description: from an unused root meaning to lacerate; the eagle (or other large bird of prey); eagle. - Strong's Number: H1540
There are 168 instances of this translation in the Bible
Lemma: גָּלָה
Transliteration: gâlâh
Pronunciation: gaw-law'
Description: a primitive root; to denude (especially in a disgraceful sense); by implication, to exile (captives being usually stripped); figuratively, to reveal; [phrase] advertise, appear, bewray, bring, (carry, lead, go) captive (into captivity), depart, disclose, discover, exile, be gone, open, [idiom] plainly, publish, remove, reveal, [idiom] shamelessly, shew, [idiom] surely, tell, uncover.