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Hosea 11

Hos. 11:4 KJV (With Strong’s)

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I drew
mashak (Hebrew #4900)
to draw, used in a great variety of applications (including to sow, to sound, to prolong, to develop, to march, to remove, to delay, to be tall, etc.)
KJV usage: draw (along, out), continue, defer, extend, forbear, X give, handle, make (pro-, sound)long, X sow, scatter, stretch out.
Pronounce: maw-shak'
Origin: a primitive root
them with cords
chebel (Hebrew #2256)
from 2254; a rope (as twisted), especially a measuring line; by implication, a district or inheritance (as measured); or a noose (as of cords); figuratively, a company (as if tied together); also a throe (especially of parturition); also ruin
KJV usage: band, coast, company, cord, country, destruction, line, lot, pain, pang, portion, region, rope, snare, sorrow, tackling.
Pronounce: kheh'-bel
Origin: or chebel {khay'-bel}
of a man
'adam (Hebrew #120)
ruddy i.e. a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.)
KJV usage: X another, + hypocrite, + common sort, X low, man (mean, of low degree), person.
Pronounce: aw-dawm'
Origin: from 119
, with bands
`aboth (Hebrew #5688)
or (feminine) tabothah {ab- oth-aw'}; the same as 5687; something intwined, i.e. a string, wreath or foliage
KJV usage: band, cord, rope, thick bough (branch), wreathen (chain).
Pronounce: ab-oth'
Origin: or rabowth {ab-oth'}
of love
'ahabah (Hebrew #160)
feminine of 158 and meaning the same
KJV usage: love.
Pronounce: a-hab-aw
: and I was to them as they that ρtake off
ruwm (Hebrew #7311)
to be high actively, to rise or raise (in various applications, literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: bring up, exalt (self), extol, give, go up, haughty, heave (up), (be, lift up on, make on, set up on, too) high(-er, one), hold up, levy, lift(-er) up, (be) lofty, (X a-)loud, mount up, offer (up), + presumptuously, (be) promote(-ion), proud, set up, tall(-er), take (away, off, up), breed worms.
Pronounce: room
Origin: a primitive root
the yoke
`ol (Hebrew #5923)
from 5953; a yoke (as imposed on the neck), literally or figuratively
KJV usage: yoke.
Pronounce: ole
Origin: or mowl {ole}
on their jaws
lchiy (Hebrew #3895)
the cheek (from its fleshiness); hence, the jaw-bone
KJV usage: cheek (bone), jaw (bone).
Pronounce: lekh-ee'
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be soft
, and I laid
natah (Hebrew #5186)
to stretch or spread out; by implication, to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of application (as follows)
KJV usage: + afternoon, apply, bow (down, - ing), carry aside, decline, deliver, extend, go down, be gone, incline, intend, lay, let down, offer, outstretched, overthrown, pervert, pitch, prolong, put away, shew, spread (out), stretch (forth, out), take (aside), turn (aside, away), wrest, cause to yield.
Pronounce: naw-taw'
Origin: a primitive root
meat
'akal (Hebrew #398)
to eat (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: X at all, burn up, consume, devour(-er, up), dine, eat(-er, up), feed (with), food, X freely, X in...wise(-deed, plenty), (lay) meat, X quite.
Pronounce: aw-kal'
Origin: a primitive root
unto them.
ρ
lift up.

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Ministry on This Verse

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drew.
Song of Sol. 1:4• 4Draw me: we will run after thee{HR}(The king hath brought me into his chamber);{HR}We will be glad and rejoice in thee;{HR}We will make mention of thy love more than of wine.{HR}Upright ones love thee. (Song of Sol. 1:4)
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Isa. 63:9• 9In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the Angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bore them and carried them all the days of old. (Isa. 63:9)
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John 6:44• 44No one can come unto me except the Father who sent me draw him, and I will raise him up at the last day. (John 6:44)
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John 12:32• 32and I, if I be lifted up out of the earth, will draw all to myself. (John 12:32)
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2 Cor. 5:14• 14For the love of Christ constraineth us, having judged this, that if one died for all, then they all were dead; (2 Cor. 5:14)
of a.
2 Sam. 7:14• 14I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men. (2 Sam. 7:14)
I was.
Lev. 26:13• 13I [am] Jehovah your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you walk upright. (Lev. 26:13)
take off.
Heb. lift up.
and I laid.
Hos. 2:8• 8For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they made into images of gold. (Hos. 2:8)
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Psa. 78:23‑25• 23Yet he commanded the skies above,{HR}And opened the doors of heaven,
 24And he rained upon them manna to eat,{HR}And had given them the corn of the heavens.
 25Man did eat the bread of the mighty;{HR}He sent them provision to the full. (Psa. 78:23‑25)
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Psa. 105:40• 40[The people] asked, and he brought quails,{HR}And satisfied them with bread of heaven. (Psa. 105:40)
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John 6:32‑58• 32Jesus therefore said to them, Verily, verily, I say to you, Not Moses hath given you the bread out of heaven, but my Father giveth you the true bread out of heaven.
 33For the bread of God is he that descendeth out of heaven, and giveth life to the world.
 34They said therefore to him, Lord, evermore give us this bread.
 35And Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life; he that cometh to me shall in no wise hunger, and he that believeth on me shall in nowise ever thirst.
 36But I said to you, that ye have even seen me, and do not believe.
 37All that the Father giveth me shall come unto me; and him that cometh unto me I will in no wise cast out.
 38For I am descended from heaven not to do my will, but the will of him that sent me.
 39And this is the will of him who sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day.
 40For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who beholdeth the Son, and believeth on him, should have life eternal, and I will raise him up at the last day.
 41The Jews therefore murmured about him, because he said, I am the bread that came down out of heaven.
 42And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then doth he say, I am come down out of heaven?
 43Jesus therefore answered and said to them, Murmur not among yourselves.
 44No one can come unto me except the Father who sent me draw him, and I will raise him up at the last day.
 45It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every one that heard from the Father and learned cometh unto me.
 46Not that anyone hath seen the Father, except he who is of God, he hath seen the Father.
 47Verily, verily, I say to you, He that believeth [on me ] hath life eternal.
 48I am the bread of life.
 49Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and died.
 50This is the bread that cometh down out of heaven, that one may eat of it and not die.
 51I am the living bread that came down out of heaven. If one shall have eaten of this bread, he shall live forever. Yea, and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.
 52The Jews therefore contended among themselves, saying How can he give us his flesh to eat?
 53Jesus therefore said to them, Verily, verily, I say to you, Unless ye shall have eaten the flesh of the Son of man and drunk his blood, ye have no life in yourselves.
 54He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath life eternal; and I will raise him up at the last day;
 55for my flesh is truly food, and my blood is truly drink.
 56He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood abideth in me and I in him.
 57As the living Father sent me, and I live by reason of the Father, he also that eateth me, even he shall live by reason of me.
 58This is the bread that came down out of heaven. Not as the fathers ate and died: he that eateth this bread shall live forever. (John 6:32‑58)
• {v.4-5} Thus, spite of all His goodness in every suited form, He was in their eyes as those that put the yoke on the Jews, feed them as He might. (“Hosea 11” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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I drew them with bands of a man, with cords of love; and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I gently caused them to eat.

W. Kelly Translation

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I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them.