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Hosea 4

Hos. 4:13 KJV (With Strong’s)

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They sacrifice
zabach (Hebrew #2076)
to slaughter an animal (usually in sacrifice)
KJV usage: kill, offer, (do) sacrifice, slay.
Pronounce: zaw-bakh'
Origin: a primitive root
upon the tops
ro'sh (Hebrew #7218)
the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
KJV usage: band, beginning, captain, chapiter, chief(-est place, man, things), company, end, X every (man), excellent, first, forefront, ((be-))head, height, (on) high(-est part, (priest)), X lead, X poor, principal, ruler, sum, top.
Pronounce: roshe
Origin: from an unused root apparently meaning to shake
of the mountains
har (Hebrew #2022)
a mountain or range of hills (sometimes used figuratively)
KJV usage: hill (country), mount(-ain), X promotion.
Pronounce: har
Origin: a shortened form of 2042
, and burn incense
qatar (Hebrew #6999)
to smoke, i.e. turn into fragrance by fire (especially as an act of worship)
KJV usage: burn (incense, sacrifice) (upon), (altar for) incense, kindle, offer (incense, a sacrifice).
Pronounce: kaw-tar'
Origin: a primitive root (identical with 7000 through the idea of fumigation in a close place and perhaps thus driving out the occupants)
upon the hills
gib`ah (Hebrew #1389)
a hillock
KJV usage: hill, little hill.
Pronounce: ghib-aw'
Origin: feminine from the same as 1387
, under oaks
'allown (Hebrew #437)
a variation of 436
KJV usage: oak.
Pronounce: al-lone'
and poplars
libneh (Hebrew #3839)
some sort of whitish tree, perhaps the storax
KJV usage: poplar.
Pronounce: lib-neh'
Origin: from 3835
and elms
'elah (Hebrew #424)
an oak or other strong tree
KJV usage: elm, oak, teil-tree.
Pronounce: ay-law'
Origin: feminine of 352
, because the shadow
tsel (Hebrew #6738)
shade, whether literal or figurative
KJV usage: defence, shade(-ow).
Pronounce: tsale
Origin: from 6751
thereof is good
towb (Hebrew #2896)
good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good or good thing, a good man or woman; the good, goods or good things, good men or women), also as an adverb (well)
KJV usage: beautiful, best, better, bountiful, cheerful, at ease, X fair (word), (be in) favour, fine, glad, good (deed, -lier, -liest, -ly, -ness, -s), graciously, joyful, kindly, kindness, liketh (best), loving, merry, X most, pleasant, + pleaseth, pleasure, precious, prosperity, ready, sweet, wealth, welfare, (be) well ((-favoured)).
Pronounce: tobe
Origin: from 2895
e: therefore your daughters
bath (Hebrew #1323)
a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
KJV usage: apple (of the eye), branch, company, daughter, X first, X old, + owl, town, village.
Pronounce: bath
Origin: from 1129 (as feminine of 1121)
shall commit whoredom
zanah (Hebrew #2181)
to commit adultery (usually of the female, and less often of simple fornication, rarely of involuntary ravishment); figuratively, to commit idolatry (the Jewish people being regarded as the spouse of Jehovah)
KJV usage: (cause to) commit fornication, X continually, X great, (be an, play the) harlot, (cause to be, play the) whore, (commit, fall to) whoredom, (cause to) go a-whoring, whorish.
Pronounce: zaw-naw'
Origin: a primitive root (highly-fed and therefore wanton)
, and your spouses
kallah (Hebrew #3618)
a bride (as if perfect); hence, a son's wife
KJV usage: bride, daughter-in-law, spouse.
Pronounce: kal-law'
Origin: from 3634
shall commit adultery
na'aph (Hebrew #5003)
to commit adultery; figuratively, to apostatize
KJV usage: adulterer(-ess), commit(-ing) adultery, woman that breaketh wedlock.
Pronounce: naw-af'
Origin: a primitive root
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Amos 7:17• 17Therefore thus saith the Lord; Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity forth of his land. (Amos 7:17)

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Daughter,
Elm; Elah,
Incense,
Mountain Mount,
Oak,
Poplar,
Sacrifice,
Spouse

Cross References

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sacrifice.
Isa. 1:29• 29For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen. (Isa. 1:29)
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Isa. 57:5,7• 5Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?
 7Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice. (Isa. 57:5,7)
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Jer. 3:6,13• 6The Lord said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.
 13Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the Lord thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the Lord. (Jer. 3:6,13)
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Ezek. 6:13• 13Then shall ye know that I am the Lord, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savor to all their idols. (Ezek. 6:13)
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Ezek. 16:16,25• 16And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colors, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so.
 25Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms. (Ezek. 16:16,25)
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Ezek. 20:28‑29• 28For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering: there also they made their sweet savor, and poured out there their drink offerings.
 29Then I said unto them, What is the high place whereunto ye go? And the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day. (Ezek. 20:28‑29)
therefore.
2 Sam. 12:10‑12• 10Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.
 11Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbor, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.
 12For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun. (2 Sam. 12:10‑12)
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Job 31:9‑10• 9If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbor's door;
 10Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her. (Job 31:9‑10)
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Amos 7:17• 17Therefore thus saith the Lord; Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity forth of his land. (Amos 7:17)
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Rom. 1:23‑28• 23And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
 24Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves:
 25Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
 26For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
 27And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
 28And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; (Rom. 1:23‑28)

J. N. Darby Translation

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they sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oak and poplar and terebinth, because the shade thereof is good; therefore your daughters play the harlot and your daughters-in-lawd commit adultery.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "brides," as Jer. 2.32.