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Hosea 4

Hos. 4:14 KJV (With Strong’s)

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γI will not punish
paqad (Hebrew #6485)
to visit (with friendly or hostile intent); by analogy, to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit, etc.
KJV usage: appoint, X at all, avenge, bestow, (appoint to have the, give a) charge, commit, count, deliver to keep, be empty, enjoin, go see, hurt, do judgment, lack, lay up, look, make, X by any means, miss, number, officer, (make) overseer, have (the) oversight, punish, reckon, (call to) remember(-brance), set (over), sum, X surely, visit, want.
Pronounce: paw-kad'
Origin: a primitive root
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)
when they 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)
, nor 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
when they 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
: for themselves are separated
parad (Hebrew #6504)
to break through, i.e. spread or separate (oneself)
KJV usage: disperse, divide, be out of joint, part, scatter (abroad), separate (self), sever self, stretch, sunder.
Pronounce: paw-rad'
Origin: a primitive root
b with whores
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 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
with harlots
qdeshah (Hebrew #6948)
a female devotee (i.e. prostitute)
KJV usage: harlot, whore.
Pronounce: ked-ay-shaw'
Origin: feminine of 6945
: therefore the people
`am (Hebrew #5971)
a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
KJV usage: folk, men, nation, people.
Pronounce: am
Origin: from 6004
that doth not understand
biyn (Hebrew #995)
to separate mentally (or distinguish), i.e.(generally) understand
KJV usage: attend, consider, be cunning, diligently, direct, discern, eloquent, feel, inform, instruct, have intelligence, know, look well to, mark, perceive, be prudent, regard, (can) skill(-full), teach, think, (cause, make to, get, give, have) understand(-ing), view, (deal) wise(-ly, man).
Pronounce: bene
Origin: a primitive root
c shall βfall
labat (Hebrew #3832)
to overthrow; intransposed, to fall
KJV usage: fall.
Pronounce: law-bat'
Origin: a primitive root
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γ
or, Shall I not.
b
1 Cor. 6:16• 16Do ye not know that he that is joined to the harlot is one body? for the two, he says, shall be one flesh. (1 Cor. 6:16)
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Hos. 4:1,5‑6• 1Hear the word of Jehovah, ye children of Israel; for Jehovah hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land; for there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.
 5And thou shalt stumble by day; and the prophet also shall stumble with thee by night: and I will destroy thy mother.
 6My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; for thou hast rejected knowledge, and I will reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me; seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children. (Hos. 4:1,5‑6)
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or, be punished.

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Daughter,
Sacrifice,
Spouse

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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I will not.
or, Shall I not, etc.
punish.
Hos. 4:17• 17--Ephraim is joined to idols: leave him alone. (Hos. 4:17)
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Isa. 1:5• 5Why should ye be smitten any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. (Isa. 1:5)
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Heb. 12:8• 8But if ye are without chastening, of which all have been made partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. (Heb. 12:8)
for.
1 Cor. 6:16• 16Do ye not know that he that is joined to the harlot is one body? for the two, he says, shall be one flesh. (1 Cor. 6:16)
and they.
1 Kings 14:23‑24• 23And they also built for themselves high places, and columns, and Asherahs on every high hill and under every green tree;
 24and there were also sodomites in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations that Jehovah had dispossessed before the children of Israel. (1 Kings 14:23‑24)
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1 Kings 15:12• 12And he put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his father had made. (1 Kings 15:12)
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2 Kings 23:7• 7And he broke down the houses of the sodomites, which were in the house of Jehovah, where the women wove tents for the Asherah. (2 Kings 23:7)
therefore.
Hos. 4:1,5‑6• 1Hear the word of Jehovah, ye children of Israel; for Jehovah hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land; for there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.
 5And thou shalt stumble by day; and the prophet also shall stumble with thee by night: and I will destroy thy mother.
 6My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; for thou hast rejected knowledge, and I will reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me; seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children. (Hos. 4:1,5‑6)
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Hos. 14:9• 9Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? intelligent, and he shall know them? For the ways of Jehovah are right, and the just shall walk in them; but the transgressors shall fall therein. (Hos. 14:9)
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Prov. 28:5• 5Evil men understand not judgment; but they that seek Jehovah understand everything. (Prov. 28:5)
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Isa. 44:18‑20• 18They have no knowledge, and understand not; for he hath plastered their eyes, that they may not see; and their hearts, that they may not understand.
 19And none taketh it to heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire, and have also baked bread upon the coals thereof, I have roasted flesh, and eaten it, and with the rest thereof shall I make an abomination? shall I bow down to a block of wood?
 20He feedeth on ashes; a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand? (Isa. 44:18‑20)
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Isa. 56:11• 11and the dogs are greedy, they know not to be satisfied, and these are shepherds that know not how to discern: they all turn to their own way, every one for his gain, even to the last of them: (Isa. 56:11)
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Dan. 12:10• 10Many shall be purified, and be made white, and be refined; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand. (Dan. 12:10)
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John 8:43• 43Why do ye not know my speech? Because ye cannot hear my word. (John 8:43)
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Rom. 3:11• 11there is not the man that understands, there is not one that seeks after God. (Rom. 3:11)
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Eph. 4:18• 18being darkened in understanding, estranged from the life of God by reason of the ignorance which is in them, by reason of the hardness of their hearts, (Eph. 4:18)
fall.
or, be punished.
• “Sacrifice with prostitutes” (literally, consecrated to this demoralizing false worship, which made their debasement a religious duty and a gain). (“Hosea 4” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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I will not punish your daughters when they play the harlot, nor your daughters-in-lawd for their committing adultery; for they themselves go aside with harlots, and they sacrifice with prostitutes: and the people that doth not understand shall come to ruine.

JND Translation Notes

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d
Or "brides," as Jer. 2.32.
e
Or "shall fall," as Prov. 10.8,10.