Amos 8:5
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
asking, “When will the New Moon be over, that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us cheat with dishonest scales.

Young's Literal Translation
Saying, When doth the new moon pass, And we sell ground corn? And the sabbath, and we open out pure corn? To make little the ephah, And to make great the shekel, And to use perversely balances of deceit.

King James Bible
Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?

Hebrew
asking,
לֵאמֹ֗ר (lê·mōr)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 559: To utter, say

“When
מָתַ֞י (mā·ṯay)
Interrogative
Strong's 4970: Extent, when

will the New Moon
הַחֹ֙דֶשׁ֙ (ha·ḥō·ḏeš)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2320: The new moon, a month

be over
יַעֲבֹ֤ר (ya·‘ă·ḇōr)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5674: To pass over, through, or by, pass on

that we may sell
וְנַשְׁבִּ֣ירָה (wə·naš·bî·rāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive imperfect Cohortative - first person common plural
Strong's 7666: To deal in grain

grain?
שֶּׁ֔בֶר (še·ḇer)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7668: Corn, grain

When will the Sabbath [end],
וְהַשַּׁבָּ֖ת (wə·haš·šab·bāṯ)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - common singular
Strong's 7676: Intermission, the Sabbath

that we may market
וְנִפְתְּחָה־ (wə·nip̄·tə·ḥāh-)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect Cohortative - first person common plural
Strong's 6605: To open wide, to loosen, begin, plough, carve

wheat?
בָּ֑ר (bār)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1250: Grain, the open country

Let us reduce
לְהַקְטִ֤ין (lə·haq·ṭîn)
Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct
Strong's 6994: To diminish, be, diminutive, of no account

the ephah
אֵיפָה֙ (’ê·p̄āh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 374: Ephah -- an ephah (a measure of grain)

and increase
וּלְהַגְדִּ֣יל (ū·lə·haḡ·dîl)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct
Strong's 1431: To grow up, become great

the shekel;
שֶׁ֔קֶל (še·qel)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 8255: A weight, a commercial standard

let us cheat
וּלְעַוֵּ֖ת (ū·lə·‘aw·wêṯ)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct
Strong's 5791: To be bent or crooked

with dishonest
מִרְמָֽה׃ (mir·māh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 4820: Deceit, treachery

scales.
מֹאזְנֵ֥י (mō·zə·nê)
Noun - mdc
Strong's 3976: A pair of scales

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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