Amos 8:6
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Berean Study Bible
Let us buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the chaff with the wheat!”

Young's Literal Translation
To purchase with money the poor, And the needy for a pair of sandals, Yea, the refuse of the pure corn we sell.

King James Bible
That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; [yea], and sell the refuse of the wheat?

Hebrew
Let us buy
לִקְנ֤וֹת (liq·nō·wṯ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 7069: To erect, create, to procure, by purchase, to own

the poor
דַּלִּ֔ים (dal·lîm)
Adjective - masculine plural construct
Strong's 1800: Dangling, weak, thin

with silver
בַּכֶּ֙סֶף֙ (bak·ke·sep̄)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3701: Silver, money

and the needy
וְאֶבְי֖וֹן (wə·’eḇ·yō·wn)
Conjunctive waw | Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 34: In want, needy, poor

for
בַּעֲב֣וּר (ba·‘ă·ḇūr)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5668: Crossed, transit, on account of, in order that

a pair of sandals,
נַעֲלָ֑יִם (na·‘ă·lā·yim)
Noun - fd
Strong's 5275: A sandal tongue, a sandal, slipper

selling
נַשְׁבִּֽיר׃ (naš·bîr)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - first person common plural
Strong's 7666: To deal in grain

even the chaff
וּמַפַּ֥ל (ū·map·pal)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 4651: A falling off, chaff, something pendulous, a flap

with the wheat!”
בַּ֖ר (bar)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1250: Grain, the open country

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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