Hosea 8
Study sheet, King James Version, with the original-language words this chapter turns on.
The text
1Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.
2Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee.
3Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him.
4They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.
5Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency?
6For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
7For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.
8Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.
9For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.
10Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes.
11Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin.
12I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.
13They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.
14For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.
Words in this chapter
Definitions are Strong's own wording from his Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Counts are how often each word appears in this chapter, from the tagged text.
- כִּיkîyH35886× in this chapter
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
- יִשְׂרָאֵלYisrâʼêlH34785× in this chapter
Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
- לֹאlôʼH38085× in this chapter
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
- עָשָׂהʻâsâhH62135× in this chapter
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
- הָיָהhâyâhH19613× in this chapter
to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
- הֵםhêmH19923× in this chapter
they (only used when emphatic)
- עַתָּהʻattâhH62583× in this chapter
at this time, whether adverb, conjunction or expletive
- בָּלַעbâlaʻH11042× in this chapter
to make away with (specifically by swallowing); generally, to destroy
- גּוֹיgôwyH14712× in this chapter
a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts
- הוּאhûwʼH19312× in this chapter
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demonstrative) this or that; occasionally (instead of copula) as or are
- זוּרzûwrH21142× in this chapter
to turn aside (especially for lodging); hence to be aforeigner, strange, profane; specifically (active participle) to commit adultery
- זָנַחzânachH21862× in this chapter
reject, forsake, fail
- חָטָאchâṭâʼH23982× in this chapter
properly, to miss; hence (figuratively and generally) to sin; by inference, to forfeit, lack, expiate, repent, (causatively) lead astray, condemn
- יָדַעyâdaʻH30452× in this chapter
to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively, instruction, designation, punishment, etc.)
- יְהֹוָהYᵉhôvâhH30682× in this chapter
Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
- אַיִןʼayinH3692× in this chapter
a non-entity; generally used as a negative particle
- כָּתַבkâthabH37892× in this chapter
to grave, by implication, to write (describe, inscribe, prescribe, subscribe)
- אָכַלʼâkalH3982× in this chapter
to eat (literally or figuratively)
- מִזְבֵּחַmizbêachH41962× in this chapter
an altar
- אֱלֹהִיםʼĕlôhîymH4302× in this chapter
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative
- עֵגֶלʻêgelH56952× in this chapter
a (male) calf (as frisking round), especially one nearly grown (i.e. a steer)
- עִירʻîyrH58922× in this chapter
a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
- עַלʻalH59212× in this chapter
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
- אֶפְרַיִםʼEphrayimH6692× in this chapter
Ephrajim, a son of Joseph; also the tribe descended from him, and its territory
- רָבָהrâbâhH72352× in this chapter
to increase (in whatever respect)
- שֹׁמְרוֹןShômᵉrôwnH81112× in this chapter
Shomeron, a place in Palestine
- תּוֹרָהtôwrâhH84512× in this chapter
a precept or statute, especially the Decalogue or Pentateuch
- תָּנָהtânâhH85662× in this chapter
to present (a mercenary inducement), i.e. bargain with (a harlot)
- בַּיִתbayithH10041× in this chapter
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
- בְּלִיbᵉlîyH10971× in this chapter
properly, failure, i.e. nothing or destruction; usually (with preposition) without, not yet, because not, as long as, etc.
- בָּנָהbânâhH11291× in this chapter
to build (literally and figuratively)
- בָּצַרbâtsarH12191× in this chapter
to gather grapes; also to be isolated (i.e. inaccessible by height or fortification)
- בְּרִיתbᵉrîythH12851× in this chapter
a compact (because made by passing between pieces of flesh)
- בָּשָׂרbâsârH13201× in this chapter
flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphemistically) the pudenda of aman
- גַּםgamH15711× in this chapter
properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and
- אַהַבʼahabH1581× in this chapter
affection (in a good or a bad sense)
- הַבְהָבhabhâbH18901× in this chapter
gift (in sacrifice), i.e. holocaust
- אוּלַיʼûwlayH1941× in this chapter
if not; hence perhaps
- הֵיכָלhêykâlH19641× in this chapter
a large public building, such as a palace or temple
- זָבַחzâbachH20761× in this chapter
to slaughter an animal (usually in sacrifice)