Malachi 3:8
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you ask, ‘How do we rob You?’ In tithes and offerings.

Young's Literal Translation
Doth man deceive God? but ye are deceiving Me, And ye have said: ‘In what have we deceived Thee?’ The tithe and the heave-offering!

King James Bible
Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.

Hebrew
“Will a man
אָדָ֜ם (’ā·ḏām)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 120: Ruddy, a human being

rob
הֲיִקְבַּ֨ע (hă·yiq·ba‘)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6906: To cover, defraud

God?
אֱלֹהִ֗ים (’ĕ·lō·hîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

Yet
כִּ֤י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

you
אַתֶּם֙ (’at·tem)
Pronoun - second person masculine plural
Strong's 859: Thou and thee, ye and you

are robbing
קֹבְעִ֣ים (qō·ḇə·‘îm)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's 6906: To cover, defraud

Me!”
אֹתִ֔י (’ō·ṯî)
Direct object marker | first person common singular
Strong's 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case

You ask,
וַאֲמַרְתֶּ֖ם (wa·’ă·mar·tem)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 559: To utter, say

“How
בַּמֶּ֣ה (bam·meh)
Preposition-b | Interrogative
Strong's 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what

do we rob You?”
קְבַעֲנ֑וּךָ (qə·ḇa·‘ă·nū·ḵā)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common plural | second person masculine singular
Strong's 6906: To cover, defraud

“In tithes
הַֽמַּעֲשֵׂ֖ר (ham·ma·‘ă·śêr)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4643: Tenth part, tithe

and offerings.
וְהַתְּרוּמָֽה׃ (wə·hat·tə·rū·māh)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 8641: Contribution, offering (for sacred uses)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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