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Hosea 4

Hos. 4:16 KJV (With Strong’s)

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For 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'
slideth back
carar (Hebrew #5637)
to turn away, i.e. (morally) be refractory
KJV usage: X away, backsliding, rebellious, revolter(-ing), slide back, stubborn, withdrew.
Pronounce: saw-rar'
Origin: a primitive root
as a backsliding
carar (Hebrew #5637)
to turn away, i.e. (morally) be refractory
KJV usage: X away, backsliding, rebellious, revolter(-ing), slide back, stubborn, withdrew.
Pronounce: saw-rar'
Origin: a primitive root
heifer
parah (Hebrew #6510)
a heifer
KJV usage: cow, heifer, kine.
Pronounce: paw-raw'
Origin: feminine of 6499
: now the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
will feed
ra`ah (Hebrew #7462)
to tend a flock; i.e. pasture it; intransitively, to graze (literally or figuratively); generally to rule; by extension, to associate with (as a friend)
KJV usage: X break, companion, keep company with, devour, eat up, evil entreat, feed, use as a friend, make friendship with, herdman, keep (sheep)(-er), pastor, + shearing house, shepherd, wander, waste.
Pronounce: raw-aw'
Origin: a primitive root
them as a lamb
kebes (Hebrew #3532)
a ram (just old enough to butt)
KJV usage: lamb, sheep.
Pronounce: keh-bes'
Origin: from an unused root meaning to dominate
in a large place
merchab (Hebrew #4800)
enlargement, either literally (an open space, usually in a good sense), or figuratively (liberty)
KJV usage: breadth, large place (room).
Pronounce: mer-khawb'
Origin: from 7337
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Heifer,
Israel,
Lamb

Cross References

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slideth.
Hos. 11:7• 7Yea, my people are bent upon backsliding from me: though they call them to the Most High, none at all exalteth him. (Hos. 11:7)
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1 Sam. 15:11• 11It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he is turned away from following me, and hath not fulfilled my words. And Samuel was much grieved; and he cried to Jehovah all night. (1 Sam. 15:11)
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Jer. 3:6,8,11• 6And Jehovah said unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen what backsliding Israel hath done? She hath gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath committed fornication.
 8And I saw that when for all the causes wherein backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce, yet the treacherous Judah, her sister, feared not, but went and committed fornication also.
 11And Jehovah said unto me, Backsliding Israel hath shewn herself more just than treacherous Judah. (Jer. 3:6,8,11)
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Jer. 5:6• 6Therefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, a wolf of the evenings shall waste them; the leopard lurketh against their cities, every one that goeth out thence is torn in pieces: for their transgressions are multiplied, their backslidings are increased. (Jer. 5:6)
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Jer. 7:24• 24But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels, in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward and not forward. (Jer. 7:24)
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Jer. 8:5• 5Why hath this people of Jerusalem slidden back with a perpetual backsliding? They hold fast deceit, they refuse to return. (Jer. 8:5)
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Jer. 14:7• 7Jehovah, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou act for thy name's sake; for our backslidings are many--we have sinned against thee. (Jer. 14:7)
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Zech. 7:11• 11But they refused to hearken, and turned a rebellious shoulder, and made their ears heavy, that they should not hear. (Zech. 7:11)
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Zech. 7•  (Zech. 7)
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as a lamb.
Lev. 26:33• 33And I will scatter you among the nations, and will draw out the sword after you; and your land shall be desolation, and your cities waste. (Lev. 26:33)
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Isa. 7:21‑25• 21And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow and two sheep,
 22and it shall come to pass, from the abundance of milk they shall give, that he shall eat butter; for every one that remaineth in the midst of the land shall eat butter and honey.
 23And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver pieces, shall become briars and thorns:
 24with arrows and with the bow shall they come thither, for the whole land shall become briars and thorns.
 25And all mountains that have been dug up with the hoe--thither will they not come, from fear of briars and thorns; and they shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of small cattle. (Isa. 7:21‑25)
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Isa. 22:18• 18Rolling thee up completely, he will roll thee as a ball into a wide country: there shalt thou die, and there shall be the chariots of thy glory, O shame of thy lord's house! (Isa. 22:18)

J. N. Darby Translation

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For Israel is refractory as an untractable heifer; now will Jehovah feed them as a lamb in a wide pasture.