11 translations · Hebrew
Malachi 1:6
“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, ‘How have we despised your name?’
Malachi 1:6 in 11 translations
- WEB World English Bible
- “A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, ‘How have we despised your name?’
- KJV King James Version
- A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- “A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me?” says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise My name. “But you ask, ‘How have we despised Your name?’
- ASV American Standard Version
- A son honoreth his father, and a servant his master: if then I am a father, where is mine honor? and if I am a master, where is my fear? saith Jehovah of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?
- LSV Literal Standard Version
- A son honors a father, and a servant his master. And if I [am] a father, where [is] My glory? And if I [am] a master, where [is] My fear? Said YHWH of Hosts to you, || O priests, despising My Name! And you have said, In what have we despised Your Name?
- FBV Free Bible Version
- A son honors his father, and a servant respects his master. So if I am your father, where is my honor? If I am your master, where is my respect? says the Lord Almighty to you priests who show contempt for me. But you ask, “How have we shown contempt for you?”
- YLT Young’s Literal Translation
- A son honoureth a father, and a servant his master. And if I [am] a father, where [is] Mine honour? And if I [am] a master, where [is] My fear? Said Jehovah of Hosts to you, O priests, despising My name! And ye have said: 'In what have we despised Thy name?'
- DBY Darby Translation
- A son honoureth [his] father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith Jehovah of hosts unto you, priests, that despise my name. But ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?
- WBT Webster’s Bible
- A son honoreth his father, and a servant his master: if then I am a father, where is my honor? and if I am a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts to you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, In what have we despised thy name?
- WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
- “A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me?” says the LORD of Armies to you priests who despise my name. “You say, ‘How have we despised your name?’
- DRA Douay-Rheims 1899
- The son honoureth the father, and the servant his master: if then I be a father, where is my honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the Lord of hosts.
The Hebrew words
Each word of the Hebrew text in order, with its transliteration, the Berean Standard Bible’s English for it, and its Strong’s number and short definition.
| Word | Transliteration | English (BSB) | Strong’s |
|---|---|---|---|
| בֵּ֛ן | bên | A son | H1121 בֵּן son: child |
| יְכַבֵּ֥ד | yə·ḵab·bêḏ | honors | H3513 כָּבֵד to honor: honour |
| אָ֖ב | ’āḇ | his father | H1 אָב father |
| וְעֶ֣בֶד | wə·‘e·ḇeḏ | and a servant | H5650 עֶ֫בֶד servant/slave |
| אֲדֹנָ֑יו | ’ă·ḏō·nāw | his master | H113 אָדוֹן lord |
| וְאִם־ | wə·’im- | But if | H518 אִם if |
| אָ֣ב | ’āḇ | am a father | H1 אָב father |
| אָ֣נִי | ’ā·nî | I | H589 אֲנִי I |
| אַיֵּ֣ה | ’ay·yêh | where | H346 אַיֵּה where? |
| כְבוֹדִ֡י | ḵə·ḇō·w·ḏî | is My honor | H3519 כָּבוֹד glory |
| וְאִם־ | wə·’im- | And if | H518 אִם if |
| אֲדוֹנִ֣ים | ’ă·ḏō·w·nîm | am a master | H113 אָדוֹן lord |
| אָנִי֩ | ’ā·nî | I | H589 אֲנִי I |
| אַיֵּ֨ה | ’ay·yêh | where | H346 אַיֵּה where? |
| מוֹרָאִ֜י | mō·w·rā·’î | is your fear of Me | H4172 מוֹרָא fear |
| אָמַ֣ר׀ | ’ā·mar | says | H559 אָמַר to say |
| יְהוָ֣ה | Yah·weh | the LORD | H3068 יְהֹוָה LORD |
| צְבָא֗וֹת | ṣə·ḇā·’ō·wṯ | of Hosts | H6635 צָבָא army |
| לָכֶם֙ | lā·ḵem | to you | H9005 ל to/for |
| הַכֹּֽהֲנִים֙ | hak·kō·hă·nîm | priests | H3548 כֹּהֵן priest |
| בּוֹזֵ֣י | bō·w·zê | who despise | H959 בָּזָה to despise |
| שְׁמִ֔י | šə·mî | My name | H8034 שֵׁם name |
| וַאֲמַרְתֶּ֕ם | wa·’ă·mar·tem | But you ask | H559 אָמַר to say |
| בַּמֶּ֥ה | bam·meh | How | H4100 מָה what? |
| בָזִ֖ינוּ | ḇā·zî·nū | have we despised | H959 בָּזָה to despise |
| אֶת־ | ’eṯ- | — | H853 אֵת [Obj.] |
| שְׁמֶֽךָ׃ | šə·me·ḵā | Your name | H8034 שֵׁם name |
Related verses
- Luke 6:46
“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do the things which I say?
- Isaiah 1:2
Hear, heavens, and listen, earth; for Yahweh has spoken: “I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
- John 13:13–17
You call me, ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord.’ You say so correctly, for so I am. If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have given you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you. …
- Exodus 20:12
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
- 1 Peter 2:17–19
Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king. Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the wicked. For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because of conscience toward God.
- 1 Peter 1:17
If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man’s work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear:
- Hosea 12:8
Ephraim said, “Surely I have become rich, I have found myself wealth. In all my wealth they won’t find in me any iniquity that is sin.”
- Malachi 3:13–14
“Your words have been stout against me,” says Yahweh. “Yet you say, ‘What have we spoken against you?’ You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God;’ and ‘What profit is it that we have followed his instructions, and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of Armies?
- Isaiah 64:8
But now, Yahweh, you are our Father. We are the clay, and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.
- Proverbs 30:17
“The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.
Cross references from OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0, most-voted first; text from the World English Bible.
In context
4 Whereas Edom says, “We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places”; Yahweh of Armies says, “They shall build, but I will throw down; and men will call them ‘The Wicked Land,’ even the people against whom Yahweh shows wrath forever.”
5 Your eyes will see, and you will say, “Yahweh is great—even beyond the border of Israel!”
6 “A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, ‘How have we despised your name?’
7 You offer polluted bread on my altar. You say, ‘How have we polluted you?’ In that you say, ‘Yahweh’s table is contemptible.’
8 When you offer the blind for sacrifice, isn’t that evil? And when you offer the lame and sick, isn’t that evil? Present it now to your governor! Will he be pleased with you? Or will he accept your person?” says Yahweh of Armies.
Read all of Malachi 1 in the World English Bible.
Edition and source notes
Each translation is shown as its source prints it, in its own verse numbering; where an edition numbers this verse differently, its own reference is given. The World English Bible, King James Version and Berean Standard Bible link to their chapter pages. Edition notes.
Literal Standard Version (2020) © Covenant Press and the Covenant Christian Coalition, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license. Free Bible Version (2018) © Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license.
The original words and their English come from the Berean Standard Bible translation tables (public domain); lemmas and short definitions from STEPBible (CC BY 4.0), with Greek definitions based on Abbott-Smith.
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