Malachi 1:4

Hebrew:  kiy amar edom rashash shuwb banah korbah koh amar Yehowah tsabah hemmah banah aniy haras qara gebul rishah am asher zaam Yehowah ad olam

Definitions/Hebrew Strong's numbers:

3588-kiy:  brand, mark, own, burn, scar, permanent, certain, doubtless, assured, truly, fixed, made firm, right, even

559-amar:  to say, speak, answer, command, tell, promise, call, appoint, avouch, bid, boast, challenge, charge, commune, declare, certify, desire, determine, intend, name, choose, favor, prefer, require, publish, communicating in spoken word, assign, behind Divine Speaking Is Divine Authority And Power To Accomplish, arrange, subdue, utter, pronounce, teach, entreat, commission, order, advice, decree, counsel, care, confer, record, testimony, witness, God's thoughts and will, estate, property, affirm, Word of God, commandment, driving, speech, to arrange, subdue, say, tell, point out forth, teach, instruct, direct, conduct, bring forth, show forth, utter, commune, pronounce, command, answer, appoint, bid, declare, give, call, name, entreat, promise, covenant, announce, order, ordain, advice, concern, care, decree, counsel, Word, record, witness, testament, meaning, God's thoughts and will, to feed and nourish, pasture, defend and protect, nurture and bring up, intent, estate, love, attend, visit, denoting union, connection, respond instantly, own, possess, occupy, belong to, relation of participation and proximity, abide, remain, continue, endure, dwell wtih, reside, inhabit, stay with, beside, associate, resemblance, similitude, likeness, attached, taken, kept, begin to speak, break silence, to heed, pay attention, hear, give, reply, dialogue, willing, available, near and close beside, remain near, present and at hand, serviceable, useful, care about, submission, given over to, devoted, appointed, faithful, accession, consent, agree, harmonious, joined, relating close and near, have conversation, ruled and governed, regulated, peaceful, reconciled, appreciation, favor, prefer, choose, utter, beseech, desire, seek after, ask after, consideration and regard, require, need, necessity, needful, to be in the same way with, devoted, consecrated, intimacy, ready, admit, accord, allow, summon, approach near, bring near, by the side of, near to, destination of relation, provide, steadfast, support, strength, stable, firm, sure, established, to bear and carry, defend and protect, complete, legitimate, perfect, fulfill, satisfy, sound whole, saved, safe and secure, healed, assurance, restored, beloved, cherished, know thoroughly, complete comprehension, follow close after

123-edom:  redness, red gem, ruby, garnet, red, ruddy, rosy, reddish, to show blood, flush or turn rosy, mankind, human being, people, to be red, ruddiness of human skin, creatures created in God's image, consisting of the material and non-material, children of the Most High, given dominion of the earth but exchanged it for servitude by satan's deception, Redeemed and Saved by God and Reconciled by Him to belong to His Occupation to be His Inheritance and Possession, earthy, earthly, soil, productive agent, property and possession, land, the whole earth, territory, estate, each and every one, mortal, frail, feeble, desperate, wicked, woeful, sick, melancholy, crying out, sighing, unclean, distressed and troubled, mourning, complain, lamentation, groaning, sorrow, pain, suffering hardship, vulnerability and finitude, enemy, nations, finite, insignificance, afflicted, bound, captive, prisoner, panting, breathing hard, possessor, person strong enough to fulfill responsibility, prevail, exceed, mighty, strong, confirmed, verified, victory, power, mastery, exalted,  healed, restored, excel, upright, proven warrior, champion, chief, owner, taught, precious in God's sight, instructed, directed, enlightened, complete in God, made perfect by God to stand in His Presence to serve and worship Him, elevated and made powerful by God, belonging to God, raised by God to fully resemble Him in nature and character, reconciled by God to enter into His Presence and service again, marked and possessed by God as His property and possession, preserved and restored by God, maintained and protected by God, friends of God, fully developed by God in His likeness to be congruous in nature with Him in harmonious relationship of participation and proximity

7567-rashash: to demolish, destroy, impoverish, wrong, fault, wickedness, guilt, caught in a net, yoked, chained, bound, morally wrong, disturb, violate, condemn, depart, vexed, iniquity, ungodly, being in the wrong, turbulence and restlessness, disjointed or ill regulated, tossing and confusion, perpetual agitation, unrighteous, decay, sick, beaten, hostile toward God, doing wrong and intent on continuing with wrong doing, contends and argues with God, rebellious, loves violence, oppressed and oppresses, fearful, does not repay debts, unfaithful, ensnared and lay snares to trap others, murderers, steal, kill and destroy, forsake God and His Law and praise the wicked, making wrong into right and right into wrong, distorted, perverted, does not seek God, godless, impious, rumble, moaning, desolate, wasting, whirling, astonished, stupid, dumb, deaf, blind, lack understanding, out of control, tempestuous, rushing, tumultuous, noisy, horrible, pompous, prideful, ruin and destruction, perishing, terror, rough, disshevelled, tossed, bristling, horrid, offensive, harsh, hard, stiff necked, fearful, horrible, double, miserable, lack, wanting

7725-shuwb:  to turn back, retreat, return again, restore, bring back, render, answer, recompense, recover, delivered, requite, reply, cease, convert, recall, refresh, relieve, rescued, retrieve, reverse, return and go back, movement back to the point of departure, returning along a path already traversed, turn away from, reverse a direction, opposite of going out, constant movement back and forth, to and fro, here and there, receding, continually, to follow after, go with, cessation of something, to go away or disappear, end, finish, initiation of cessation of something, bring to an end, termination, turning away and destruction, perverted, pursuing evil, to return and obey, repetition, conversion and turning to God, turning back again to Him from sin and separation to be reconciled, pity, console, avenge, comfort, repent, ease, sign, be sorry, favor and prefer again, make a strong turning to a new course of action, turning to a positive course of action, turning from less desirable course with strength, exerts strength to change, re-grasp the situation and exert effort for the situation to take a different course of purpose and action, exhibited new action to make the right choice, restoration, redemption, consolation, ruefulness, expressing sorrow and regret, pitiable, express sincere remorse about one's wrong doing, penitent, reinstate, repair, renovate

1129-banah:  to build, build up, made, built again, repair, set up, have children, obtain children, establish, fortify, rebuild, construct, found, manufacture, fashion, create, rebuilding something that is destroyed, renew, renovate, restore, recover, building one's house, conceive a child, building relationships, found a dynasty, have offspring, heirs and descendants, expressing a unique and unbreakable relationship, relationship to God, children of the Most High God, belonging to God, to own, possess and occupy again, call, choose, select, favor, prefer, name, mark, teach, instruct, direct

2723-korbah:  parched, ruined, desolate, dry, waste, drought, desert, decay, destroyed, dry up, demolished, without rain or water, thirsty, hungry, famine, desperate, poor, disintegrated, falling apart, suffer damage and loss, disastrous, reduced, collapse, harmed, poverty, lack, wanting, state of complete disorder, chaos, to fall, bleak, dismal, misery, unhappiness, lonely, empty, utterly wretched, abandoned, forsaken, betrayed, deceived, relinquished, discontinue, given up, cease to support or look after, leave empty, uninhabited without intending to return, survive, cease to take interest, deprive, without restraint, out of control, unused, left, lack moisture, empty of water, unyielding, hard, crusty, rough, abrasive, harsh, bitter, extreme, bare, nude, naked, dull, lacking adornment, without covering or shade, bald, dangerous, deadly, brittle, dried, crack, unsuccessful, without nourishment, arid, deprived of moisture, lifeless, barren, infertile, fruitless, desiccated, without children or offspring, deprived of vital juices, dehydrated, uncomfortable, unable to survive, use or expend carelessly, extravagantly and to no purpose, unappreciative, fail to make good use, emaciated and weak, severely injure, kill, pass away, uncultivated, neglect, abuse, disloyal, unfaithful, treacherous, fail at a crucial moment when most needed, without substance, covered with sand, waterless, without vegetation, unpleasant, uninteresting, forsake, worthless, not serviceable, decline in quality, power or vigor, decrease, fall off or down, despond, dark, wax dim

3541-koh:  like this, thus, of this manner, also, here, hither, now, also, like, such, so, in this way, self, same, that, as, are, these, those, who, he, she, it, is, to be, exist, become, come to pass, keep, take heed

559-amar:  to say, speak, answer, command, tell, promise, call, appoint, avouch, bid, boast, challenge, charge, commune, declare, certify, desire, determine, intend, name, choose, favor, prefer, require, publish, communicating in spoken word, assign, behind Divine Speaking Is Divine Authority And Power To Accomplish, arrange, subdue, utter, pronounce, teach, entreat, commission, order, advice, decree, counsel, care, confer, record, testimony, witness, God's thoughts and will, estate, property, affirm, Word of God, commandment, driving, speech, to arrange, subdue, say, tell, point out forth, teach, instruct, direct, conduct, bring forth, show forth, utter, commune, pronounce, command, answer, appoint, bid, declare, give, call, name, entreat, promise, covenant, announce, order, ordain, advice, concern, care, decree, counsel, Word, record, witness, testament, meaning, God's thoughts and will, to feed and nourish, pasture, defend and protect, nurture and bring up, intent, estate, love, attend, visit, denoting union, connection, respond instantly, own, possess, occupy, belong to, relation of participation and proximity, abide, remain, continue, endure, dwell wtih, reside, inhabit, stay with, beside, associate, resemblance, similitude, likeness, attached, taken, kept, begin to speak, break silence, to heed, pay attention, hear, give, reply, dialogue, willing, available, near and close beside, remain near, present and at hand, serviceable, useful, care about, submission, given over to, devoted, appointed, faithful, accession, consent, agree, harmonious, joined, relating close and near, have conversation, ruled and governed, regulated, peaceful, reconciled, appreciation, favor, prefer, choose, utter, beseech, desire, seek after, ask after, consideration and regard, require, need, necessity, needful, to be in the same way with, devoted, consecrated, intimacy, ready, admit, accord, allow, summon, approach near, bring near, by the side of, near to, destination of relation, provide, steadfast, support, strength, stable, firm, sure, established, to bear and carry, defend and protect, complete, legitimate, perfect, fulfill, satisfy, sound whole, saved, safe and secure, healed, assurance, restored, beloved, cherished, know thoroughly, complete comprehension, follow close after

3068-Yehowah:  God's personal name by which He related to His children and people, Creator, Self-Existent Eternal God, Highest Most High, Great I Am, Savior, Redeemer, Sacred and Holy Name of God, Almighty, I Am Who I Am, Supreme Sovereign, Ruler, Lord, Master, Owner, Controller, Divine Name, Powerful and Strong Able to Accomplish According to His Will, Presence, Exist, Be, Is, Accomplished, Committed, Supreme Being, Faithful, I Exist, I Am, God Who Performs His Covenant And Keeps It

6635-tsabah:  to mass an army or servants, assemble, muster, perform, to wage war, to serve in worship, enter in to perform service to do work in the congregation, summoning one's wish and will, to please, will, determine, ordain, appoint, tell, declare, pronounce, tell forth, a mass of persons or things, organized, campaign, worship, host, service, company, labor, conflict, group, impetus, difficulty, force, service which one does for and under a superior, work, the host of Heaven not only worship God but serve to do all His Will, numberless, multitude, everything in creation, amass, gather, collect, swell, determination, purpose, intent, accomplish, splendor, prominence, conspicuous, glorious, pleasant, beautiful, seemly, suitable, agree, harmony, aggregate, heap up, pile, rise up, raise up, rear up, be high, exalted, ascend, lift up, set up, build, make, gather for any purpose, receive, restore, together, bringing objects to a common point, congregate, end product, bring home and care for, bring into, produce, bring forth fruit and result, cut down

1992-hemmah:  abundance, wealth, multitudinous, increase, great number, they, many, more, same, such, their, these, who, are, as, same, self, which, to be, exist, become

1129-banah:  to build, build up, made, built again, repair, set up, have children, obtain children, establish, fortify, rebuild, construct, found, manufacture, fashion, create, rebuilding something that is destroyed, renew, renovate, restore, recover, building one's house, conceive a child, building relationships, found a dynasty, have offspring, heirs and descendants, expressing a unique and unbreakable relationship, relationship to God, children of the Most High God, belonging to God, to own, possess and occupy again, call, choose, select, favor, prefer, name, mark, teach, instruct, direct

589-aniy:  I, me, my, which, for, mine, my own, self same, myself, alone, conveyance, longing, will, determine, purpose, intent, desire, ask and cry after, groaning, lamentation, sorrow, mourn, distress, troubled, breath hard, sighing, pray, beseech, contraction in anguish, to come near and approach, meet, seek after, where? deliver, wish for, desire and long after, cry after, call out for, query, doleful, desirable, habitable

2040-haras:  to pull down, break in pieces, destroy, throw down, break down, over throw, break through, ruin, beat down, pluck dow, break utterly, penetrate, pierce through, consume, demolish, remove, eliminate, tear down, tear to pieces, cast down, break out, tear off, break off, root out, pull out, burst asunder, break apart, tear away, root up, pull up, take out, end, bring to an end, finish off, put an end to the existence of, completely ruin and spoil, defeat utterly, not build, get rid of, dispose, uninstall, wreck, raze, bring down, smash to pieces, complete wreckage, heap of rubble, make useless, eradicate, uproot, pull it out by the roots, eliminate the cause to prevent reappearance, extirpate, utterly destroy, exterminate, wipe out, annihilate, reduce to nothing, stem out, put an end to, torn up by the roots, exclude from existence, remove, expel, remove from threshold, overcome, prevail, determined, ordained, purposed, set, victory over, prevent from success, impossible, null, void, annul, undo, make invalid and impotent, make non-existent, make to be nothing, obliterate, defeat utterly, scrape and shave to the ground

7121-qara:  accost, call out, address by name, named, proclaim, invite, bid, beseech, entreat, publish, specification by name, call and cry after, longing after, desire, mourn after, naming a thing asserts sovereignty over it, own, possess, occupy, denoting connection and union, act of creating, naming and numbering, belonging to someone, recognize, acknowledge, relationship, know well, calling to a specific task, summon, pray, communication directed toward a specific person who is able and willing to respond, call out to get attention to initiate contact, sustained communication, announce, official assemblage, muster, gather, encounter, meet, approach, bring near, draw near, offer, present, near and at hand, serviceable, useful, helpful, presented, join, make ready, enter into nearness of the closest and most intimate kind, touch, coupled, address, talk with, personal involvement, being actively and personally involved in relating, come near, suitable, accompany, companionship, friendship, relation of participation and proximity, relate near, conversation, choose, select, favor, prefer, public and open, convoke, gather, complete, made perfect, prepared, fulfilled, satisfy, made firm confirmed, sound whole, company, clear, bright, pleasant, happy, sweet, fragrant, cheerful, fresh, alive, vitally connected, benefit, blessing, rest, salvation

1366-gebul:  to twist, bound, set border, inclose, mark, limit, wall around, surround, encircle, compass, boundary, territory, possession, occupation, property, inheritance, ownership, have authority and power over, defend, protect, own, belonging to, sustain, nourish and feed, take care of, tend, care for, deliver, preserve, save, cover, fulfill responsibility to, satisfy, prevail, oversee, take charge of, perform duty and fulfill obligation to, support, uphold, carry, bear with, endure, abide, stay with, remain near, provide, prepare, attend, serve and minister to

7564-rishah:  to do or declare wrong, disturb, violate, condemn, wicked, depart, trouble, vex, iniquity, morally wrong, ungodly, guilty, being in the wrong, turbulence or restlessness, disjointed and ill-regulated, tossing and confusion, perpetual agitation, unrighteous, hostile, intent on continuing with wrong doing, does not repay debts, lay snare to trap and ensnare, murderers, forsake the law and praise the wicked, does not seek God, godless, impious, fault, hateful, set against, oppose, bitter disdain, envy, not love, denotes separation or departure, evil, unclean, polluted, distorted, perverted, difficult, inconvenient, unmarried, malfunction, loose, unrest, disorder, anxiety, pain, suffering, problem, strife, argument, fight, quarrel, discord, turbid, opaque, not clear, cloudy, stir up trouble, muddy, confused, muddled, prideful, arrogant, self righteous, annoying, nuisance, interference of use and enjoyment by another to cause harm and injury, damaged, sick, diseased, untaught, uncultivated, error, disrespect, assault, steal, kill, destroy, waste

5971-am:  people, nations, congregated, tribe, troops, attendants, flock, family, kindred, clan, unity, common covenantal relationships and groups, inhabitants, citizens, those who are privileged, community, proper relationship and unique knowledge of, to associate, overshadow, huddle together, in conjunction with, equally with, resemblance, similitude, joined, to teach to learn, bond, collection, established, abide with, stay and remain near, endure and continue, bear with, carry

834-asher:  to be straight, level, right, happy, honest, prosper, blessed, to lead, guide, go forward, order, favored, preferred, choice, best, enjoy, right toward God, made right, just, cleansed, clear, delivered, saved, judicially cleared of all charges, vindicated, pronounced innocent, upheld in righteousness, covered, defended, protected, equitable, faithful, agreement, suitable, harmonious, trace out and conform, benefit, follow, to teach and learn, based on special relationship with God, state of prosperity and happiness that comes when a superior bestows his favor and blessing, saved by the Lord, the state of that the blessed enjoy does not always appear to be "happy" because happy is the person whom God correcteth and teacheth, in as much as God is concerned about them, right toward God, to be made right, justify, delivered from condemnation and thus entitled to certain inheritance, accounted and dealt with as righteous, relationship in agreement, justice in conformity, all that God expects and desires of His children based upon special relationship with Him, rightness, gleam, cheerful, sound clear, rejoice, shine, shout for joy

2194-za'am:  to foam, be enraged, indignation, abhor, abominable, fury, angry, froth at the mouth, displeasure, rage, boil up, wroth, anguish, annoyed, disdain, contempt, regard as unworthy, agitation, sweat, rising, stirred, disturbed, vent, overflow, pour out forth, troubled, arouse, drive, evoke, awaken response, excite, provoked, incite, arise, made to rise, vex, away from, to shudder, shake and vibrate, move, dissatisfied, not pleased, mad with

3068-Yehowah:  God's personal name by which He related to His children and people, Creator, Self-Existent Eternal God, Highest Most High, Great I Am, Savior, Redeemer, Sacred and Holy Name of God, Almighty, I Am Who I Am, Supreme Sovereign, Ruler, Lord, Master, Owner, Controller, Divine Name, Powerful and Strong Able to Accomplish According to His Will, Presence, Exist, Be, Is, Accomplished, Committed, Supreme Being, Faithful, I Exist, I Am, God Who Performs His Covenant And Keeps It

5704-ad:  terminus, duration, ever, everlasting, end, eternity, during, until, while, equally with, mastery, aim, witness, testimony, recorder, prince, someone who is present and can confirm, to attest to and confirm orally or by signature, Word, willing to affirm truth of a transaction, bear witness, attest to mutual relationship, set period, continue, endure, abide, remain, stay with

5769-olam:  concealed, vanishing point, eternity, everlasting, always, ever, perpetual, ancient, remotest time, God Who existed before creation without beginning or end, continually, ever continuing, endless, hidden, secret, remote, out of sight, private, covered

Interpretation based on the study:  Scarring the Word of God and branding mankind, to demolish, oppress and destroy, binding in chains of tyranny, confusion and moral wickedness, to imprison, murder and kill.  "Turn back and away from destruction, return and be refreshed.  Come back to be comforted and restored in relationship to belong to Me.  I redeemed and recovered you from destruction to rebuild again our relationship, naming you My children and heirs.  Choosing to favor you in an unbreakable relationship with Me to belong to me.  I will teach and instruct to direct you Myself, to convey and bear you all the Way.  I will pull down, completely eradicate, utterly destroy, uproot and put an end to remove sin, to undo, defeat and scrape it from the earth."  Calling out by name, asserting ownership and sovereignty in connection, union and favor, to bind, mark and set His seal of ownership over us.  He defends, protects, tends, nourishes, fulfills, satisfies and supports us in His abiding remaining us near with Him.  Declaring, "The wrong doing of my people, flock and family, I make straight and level.  I delivered to save, clearing all charges to vindicate and pronounce my people innocent.  I am Faithful to defend, protect and make right their relationship with me, to deliver them from all condemnation to entitle each one to My favor and inheritance, to belong to My family.  I will cover and make right all the troubles, disruptions, raging, disturbances and agitations to bring it to an end."  Yehowah Highest Most High Supreme Creator Savior affirmed forever, by His Witness and Word, to attest to His mutual relationship with us, to endure and remain with us continually without end unto eternity, to cover us always.

Definitions derived from:  The New Strong's Expanded Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, red letter edition, Hebrew & Greek Dictionary, 2010 edition.  CWP Teacher edition Interlinear Bible.  The Complete Word Study Dictionary Old Testament.

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