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Hosea 4

Hos. 4:18 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Their drink
cobe' (Hebrew #5435)
potation, concretely (wine), or abstractly (carousal)
KJV usage: drink, drunken, wine.
Pronounce: so'-beh
Origin: from 5433
is ζsour
cuwr (Hebrew #5493)
a primitive root; to turn off (literal or figurative)
KJV usage: be(-head), bring, call back, decline, depart, eschew, get (you), go (aside), X grievous, lay away (by), leave undone, be past, pluck away, put (away, down), rebel, remove (to and fro), revolt, X be sour, take (away, off), turn (aside, away, in), withdraw, be without.
Pronounce: soor
Origin: or suwr (Hosea 9:12) {soor}
: they have committed 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)
continually
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)
: her ηrulers
magen (Hebrew #4043)
from 1598; a shield (i.e. the small one or buckler); figuratively, a protector; also the scaly hide of the crocodile
KJV usage: X armed, buckler, defence, ruler, + scale, shield.
Pronounce: maw-gane'
Origin: also (in plural) feminine mginnah {meg-in-naw'}
with shame
qalown (Hebrew #7036)
disgrace; (by implication) the pudenda
KJV usage: confusion, dishonour, ignominy, reproach, shame.
Pronounce: kaw-lone'
Origin: from 7034
do love
'ahab (Hebrew #157)
a primitive root; to have affection for (sexually or otherwise)
KJV usage: (be-)love(-d, -ly, -r), like, friend.
Pronounce: aw-hab'
Origin: or raheb {aw-habe'}
, Give
yahab (Hebrew #3051)
to give (whether literal or figurative); generally, to put; imperatively (reflexive) come
KJV usage: ascribe, bring, come on, give, go, set, take.
Pronounce: yaw-hab'
Origin: a primitive root
ye.
ζ
gone.
η
shields,
Psa. 47:9• 9The princes of the people are gathered together, even the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth belong unto God: he is greatly exalted. (Psa. 47:9)
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Cross References

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drink.
Deut. 32:32‑33• 32For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:
 33Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps. (Deut. 32:32‑33)
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Isa. 1:21‑22• 21How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
 22Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water: (Isa. 1:21‑22)
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Jer. 2:21• 21Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me? (Jer. 2:21)
sour.
Heb. gone.
committed.
Hos. 4:2,10• 2By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
 10For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the Lord. (Hos. 4:2,10)
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2 Kings 17:7‑17• 7For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,
 8And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.
 9And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the Lord their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
 10And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:
 11And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the Lord carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the Lord to anger:
 12For they served idols, whereof the Lord had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.
 13Yet the Lord testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.
 14Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the Lord their God.
 15And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the Lord had charged them, that they should not do like them.
 16And they left all the commandments of the Lord their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
 17And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger. (2 Kings 17:7‑17)
her.
Ex. 23:8• 8And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous. (Ex. 23:8)
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Deut. 16:19• 19Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous. (Deut. 16:19)
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1 Sam. 8:3• 3And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment. (1 Sam. 8:3)
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1 Sam. 12:3‑4• 3Behold, here I am: witness against me before the Lord, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you.
 4And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken ought of any man's hand. (1 Sam. 12:3‑4)
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Prov. 30:15‑16• 15The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough:
 16The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough. (Prov. 30:15‑16)
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Amos 5:12• 12For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right. (Amos 5:12)
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Mic. 3:11• 11The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, Is not the Lord among us? none evil can come upon us. (Mic. 3:11)
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Mic. 7:3• 3That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up. (Mic. 7:3)
rulers.
Heb. shields.
Psa. 47:9• 9The princes of the people are gathered together, even the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth belong unto God: he is greatly exalted. (Psa. 47:9)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Their drink is sourg; they give themselves up to whoredom; her great mena passionately love their shame.

JND Translation Notes

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g
Or "their orgies are vile."
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Lit. "shields," see Ps. 47.9.