Micah 3:3
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Berean Study Bible
You eat the flesh of my people after stripping off their skin and breaking their bones. You chop them up like flesh for the cooking pot, like meat in a cauldron.”

Young's Literal Translation
And who have eaten the flesh of My people, And their skin from off them have stript, And their bones they have broken, And they have spread [them] out as in a pot, And as flesh in the midst of a caldron.

King James Bible
Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

Hebrew
You eat
אָכְלוּ֮ (’ā·ḵə·lū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 398: To eat

the flesh
שְׁאֵ֣ר (šə·’êr)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 7607: Flesh, as living, for, food, food of any kind, kindred by blood

of my people
עַמִּי֒ (‘am·mî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock

after stripping off
הִפְשִׁ֔יטוּ (hip̄·šî·ṭū)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 6584: To strip off, make a dash, raid

their skin
וְעוֹרָם֙ (wə·‘ō·w·rām)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 5785: Skin, hide, leather

and breaking
פִּצֵּ֑חוּ (piṣ·ṣê·ḥū)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 6476: To cause to break or burst forth, break forth with

their bones.
עַצְמֹֽתֵיהֶ֖ם (‘aṣ·mō·ṯê·hem)
Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 6106: A bone, the body, the substance, selfsame

You chop them up
וּפָרְשׂוּ֙ (ū·p̄ā·rə·śū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 6566: To break apart, disperse

like [meat]
כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר (ka·’ă·šer)
Preposition-k | Pronoun - relative
Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

for the cooking pot,
בַּסִּ֔יר (bas·sîr)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - common singular
Strong's 5518: A pot, a thorn, a hook

like meat
וּכְבָשָׂ֖ר (ū·ḵə·ḇā·śār)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1320: Flesh, body, person, the pudenda of a, man

in
בְּת֥וֹךְ (bə·ṯō·wḵ)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 8432: A bisection, the centre

a kettle.”
קַלָּֽחַת׃ (qal·lā·ḥaṯ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 7037: A caldron

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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