The Meaning of Joel 1:16 Explained

Joel 1:16

KJV: Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

YLT: Is not before our eyes food cut off? From the house of our God joy and rejoicing?

Darby: Is not the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

ASV: Is not the food cut off before our eyes, yea , joy and gladness from the house of our God?

Discover Joel 1:16

CONTEXT: What is the Context of Joel 1:16?

MEANING: What does Joel 1:16 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Joel 1:16 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Joel 1:16?

What is the context of Joel 1:16?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, [yea], joy and gladness from the house of our God?

What does Joel 1:16 Mean?

Context Summary

Joel 1:1-20 - A Summons To Penitence

We know nothing of Joel beyond this book. He was content to be God's mouthpiece and remain unknown. His message was one of unparalleled woe. The memory of God's loving kindness ought to have kept His people faithful and loyal, but since grace and love had failed to affect them awful judgments were announced. A small insect, the locust, was to prostrate man's boasted power. The four kinds of locusts here described and which doubtless devastated the country, were also symbols of the four world-empires, Assyria, Babylon, Greece, and Rome, which were to lay waste the Holy Land. Such judgments call for acts of repentance, such as fasting, humiliation, and intercession. There are days in national experience when it becomes us to gird ourselves and lament. The ministers and elders of the Church should lead the way. Where there has been infidelity to the great Lover of souls, when the visible Church or the individual member has turned from Christ to the wanton world, then joy withers away, Joel 1:12, spiritual worship ceases, Joel 1:9, and there can be neither peace nor safety until there has been repentance and return. [source]

Chapter Summary: Joel 1

¹ Joel, declaring various judgments of God, exhorts to observe them,
⁸ and to mourn
¹⁴ He prescribes a solemn fast to deprecate those judgments

What do the individual words in Joel 1:16 mean?

Is not before our eyes the food cut off from the house of our God Joy and gladness

הֲל֛וֹא נֶ֥גֶד עֵינֵ֖ינוּ אֹ֣כֶל נִכְרָ֑ת מִבֵּ֥ית ؟ אֱלֹהֵ֖ינוּ שִׂמְחָ֥ה וָגִֽיל

הֲל֛וֹא	Is not
Parse: Adverb, Negative particle Root: הֲלֹא Sense: not, no.
נֶ֥גֶד	before
Parse: Preposition Root: נֶגֶד Sense: what is conspicuous, what is in front of adv.
עֵינֵ֖ינוּ	our eyes
Parse: Noun, cdc, first person common plural Root: עֹונָה Sense: eye.
אֹ֣כֶל	the food
Parse: Noun, masculine singular Root: אֹכֶל Sense: food.
נִכְרָ֑ת	cut off
Parse: Verb, Nifal, Perfect, third person masculine singular Root: כָּרַת Sense: to cut, cut off, cut down, cut off a body part, cut out, eliminate, kill, cut a covenant.
מִבֵּ֥ית	from the house
Parse: Preposition-m, Noun, masculine singular construct Root: בַּיִת Sense: house.
؟ אֱלֹהֵ֖ינוּ	of our God
Parse: Noun, masculine plural construct, first person common plural Root: אֱלֹהִים Sense: (plural).
שִׂמְחָ֥ה	Joy
Parse: Noun, feminine singular Root: שִׂמְחָה Sense: joy, mirth, gladness.
וָגִֽיל	and gladness
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, masculine singular Root: גִּיל Sense: a rejoicing.

What are the major concepts related to Joel 1:16?

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