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Hosea 11

Hos. 11:8 KJV (With Strong’s)

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How shall I give thee up
nathan (Hebrew #5414)
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
KJV usage: add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, X avenge, X be ((healed)), bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge, come, commit, consider, count, + cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, X doubtless, X without fail, fasten, frame, X get, give (forth, over, up), grant, hang (up), X have, X indeed, lay (unto charge, up), (give) leave, lend, let (out), + lie, lift up, make, + O that, occupy, offer, ordain, pay, perform, place, pour, print, X pull , put (forth), recompense, render, requite, restore, send (out), set (forth), shew, shoot forth (up), + sing, + slander, strike, (sub-)mit, suffer, X surely, X take, thrust, trade, turn, utter, + weep, + willingly, + withdraw, + would (to) God, yield.
Pronounce: naw-than'
Origin: a primitive root
, Ephraim
'Ephrayim (Hebrew #669)
double fruit; Ephrajim, a son of Joseph; also the tribe descended from him, and its territory
KJV usage: Ephraim, Ephraimites.
Pronounce: ef-rah'-yim
Origin: dual of masculine form of 672
? how shall I deliver
magan (Hebrew #4042)
properly, to shield; encompass with; figuratively, to rescue, to hand safely over (i.e. surrender)
KJV usage: deliver.
Pronounce: maw-gan'
Origin: a denominative from 4043
thee, Israel
Yisra'el (Hebrew #3478)
from 8280 and 410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: --Israel.
Pronounce: yis-raw-ale'
? how shall I make
nathan (Hebrew #5414)
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
KJV usage: add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, X avenge, X be ((healed)), bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge, come, commit, consider, count, + cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, X doubtless, X without fail, fasten, frame, X get, give (forth, over, up), grant, hang (up), X have, X indeed, lay (unto charge, up), (give) leave, lend, let (out), + lie, lift up, make, + O that, occupy, offer, ordain, pay, perform, place, pour, print, X pull , put (forth), recompense, render, requite, restore, send (out), set (forth), shew, shoot forth (up), + sing, + slander, strike, (sub-)mit, suffer, X surely, X take, thrust, trade, turn, utter, + weep, + willingly, + withdraw, + would (to) God, yield.
Pronounce: naw-than'
Origin: a primitive root
thee as Admah
'Admah (Hebrew #126)
earthy; Admah, a place near the Dead Sea
KJV usage: Admah.
Pronounce: ad-maw'
Origin: contracted for 127
? how shall I set
suwm (Hebrew #7760)
a primitive root; to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
KJV usage: X any wise, appoint, bring, call (a name), care, cast in, change, charge, commit, consider, convey, determine, + disguise, dispose, do, get, give, heap up, hold, impute, lay (down, up), leave, look, make (out), mark, + name, X on, ordain, order, + paint, place, preserve, purpose, put (on), + regard, rehearse, reward, (cause to) set (on, up), shew, + stedfastly, take, X tell, + tread down, ((over-))turn, X wholly, work.
Pronounce: soom
Origin: or siym {seem}
thee as Zeboim
Tsbo'iym (Hebrew #6636)
or Tsbiyim {tseb-ee-yeem'}; plural of 6643; gazelles; Tseboim or Tsebijim, a place in Palestine
KJV usage: Zeboiim, Zeboim.
Pronounce: tseb-o-eem'
Origin: or (more correctly) Tsbiyiym {tseb-ee-yeem'}
? mine heart
leb (Hebrew #3820)
the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything
KJV usage: + care for, comfortably, consent, X considered, courag(-eous), friend(-ly), ((broken-), (hard-), (merry-), (stiff-), (stout-), double) heart((-ed)), X heed, X I, kindly, midst, mind(-ed), X regard((-ed)), X themselves, X unawares, understanding, X well, willingly, wisdom.
Pronounce: labe
Origin: a form of 3824
is turned
haphak (Hebrew #2015)
to turn about or over; by implication, to change, overturn, return, pervert
KJV usage: X become, change, come, be converted, give, make (a bed), overthrow (-turn), perverse, retire, tumble, turn (again, aside, back, to the contrary, every way).
Pronounce: haw-fak'
Origin: a primitive root
within me, my repentings
nichuwm (Hebrew #5150)
from 5162; properly, consoled; abstractly, solace
KJV usage: comfort(-able), repenting.
Pronounce: nee-khoom'
Origin: or nichum {nee-khoom'}
are kindled
kamar (Hebrew #3648)
properly, to intertwine or contract, i.e. (by implication) to shrivel (as with heat); figuratively, to be deeply affected with passion (love or pity)
KJV usage: be black, be kindled, yearn.
Pronounce: kaw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
together
yachad (Hebrew #3162)
properly, a unit, i.e. (adverb) unitedly
KJV usage: alike, at all (once), both, likewise, only, (al-)together, withal.
Pronounce: yakh'-ad
Origin: from 3161
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Admah,
Ephraim,
Heart,
Israel,
Zeboim; Zeboiim

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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How shall I give.
Hos. 6:4• 4What shall I do unto thee, Ephraim? What shall I do unto thee, Judah? For your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the dew that early passeth away. (Hos. 6:4)
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Jer. 9:7• 7Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how else could I do for the daughter of my people? (Jer. 9:7)
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Lam. 3:33• 33for he doth not willingly afflict or grieve the children of men. (Lam. 3:33)
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Matt. 23:37• 37Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those that are sent unto her, how often would I have gathered thy children as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! (Matt. 23:37)
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Luke 19:41‑42• 41And as he drew near, seeing the city, he wept over it,
 42saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, even at least in this thy day, the things that are for thy peace: but now they are hid from thine eyes; (Luke 19:41‑42)
Admah.
Gen. 14:8• 8And the king of Sodom and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar, went out, and they joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim, (Gen. 14:8)
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Gen. 19:24‑25• 24And Jehovah rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah out of heaven,
 25and overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew upon the ground. (Gen. 19:24‑25)
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Deut. 29:23• 23that the whole ground thereof is brimstone and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, and no grass groweth in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger and in his fury: (Deut. 29:23)
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Isa. 1:9‑10• 9Unless Jehovah of hosts had left us a very small residue, we should have been as Sodom, we should have been like unto Gomorrah.
 10Hear the word of Jehovah, rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, people of Gomorrah! (Isa. 1:9‑10)
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Amos 4:11• 11I have overthrown among you, like God's overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a brand plucked out of the burning; yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah. (Amos 4:11)
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Zeph. 2:9• 9Therefore, as I live, saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Moab shall certainly be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and salt-pits, and a perpetual desolation; the remnant of my people shall spoil them, and the residue of my nation shall possess them. (Zeph. 2:9)
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2 Peter 2:6• 6and having reduced the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha to ashes, condemned them with an overthrow, setting them as an example to those that should afterwards live an ungodly life; (2 Peter 2:6)
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Jude 7• 7as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities around them, committing greedily fornication, in like manner with them, and going after other flesh, lie there as an example, undergoing the judgment of eternal fire. (Jude 7)
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Rev. 11:8• 8and their body shall be on the street of the great city, which is called spiritually Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified. (Rev. 11:8)
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Rev. 18:18• 18and cried, seeing the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like to the great city? (Rev. 18:18)
Mine.
Deut. 32:36• 36For Jehovah will judge his people, And shall repent in favour of his servants; When he seeth that power is gone, And there is none shut up or left. (Deut. 32:36)
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Judg. 10:16• 16And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served Jehovah; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel. (Judg. 10:16)
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2 Sam. 24:16• 16And the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it; but Jehovah repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed among the people, It is enough: withdraw now thine hand. And the angel of Jehovah was by the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite. (2 Sam. 24:16)
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2 Kings 13:23• 23And Jehovah was gracious to them, and had compassion on them, and had respect to them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; and he would not destroy them, neither did he cast them from his presence up to that time. (2 Kings 13:23)
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Psa. 106:45• 45And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses; (Psa. 106:45)
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Isa. 63:15• 15Look down from the heavens, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory! Where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy tender mercies? Are they restrained toward me? (Isa. 63:15)
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Jer. 3:12• 12Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith Jehovah: I will not make my face dark upon you; for I am merciful, saith Jehovah; I will not keep anger for ever. (Jer. 3:12)
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Jer. 31:20• 20Is Ephraim a dear son unto me? is he a child of delights? For whilst I have been speaking against him, I do constantly remember him still. Therefore my bowels are troubled for him: I will certainly have mercy upon him, saith Jehovah. (Jer. 31:20)
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Amos 7:3,6• 3Jehovah repented for this: It shall not be, said Jehovah.
 6Jehovah repented for this: This also shall not be, said the Lord Jehovah. (Amos 7:3,6)
heart.
Lam. 1:20• 20See, Jehovah, for I am in distress, my bowels are troubled; my heart is turned within me, for I have grievously rebelled: without, the sword hath bereaved me, within, it is as death. (Lam. 1:20)
• Were they not really as bad as the devoted cities of the plain? Yet would He spare in sovereign mercy, not like man returning to complete the work, nor entering into the city that He might do it thoroughly; for He is God and not man, the Holy One in the midst of Ephraim. (“Hosea 11” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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How shall I give thee overf, Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee up, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? how shall I set thee as Zeboim? My heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "What shall I do with thee?"