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Hosea 6

Hos. 6:6 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Fori I desired
chaphets (Hebrew #2654)
properly, to incline to; by implication (literally but rarely) to bend; figuratively, to be pleased with, desire
KJV usage: X any at all, (have, take) delight, desire, favour, like, move, be (well) pleased, have pleasure, will, would.
Pronounce: khaw-fates'
Origin: a primitive root
mercy
checed (Hebrew #2617)
kindness; by implication (towards God) piety: rarely (by opposition) reproof, or (subject.) beauty
KJV usage: favour, good deed(-liness, -ness), kindly, (loving-)kindness, merciful (kindness), mercy, pity, reproach, wicked thing.
Pronounce: kheh'-sed
Origin: from 2616
, and not sacrifice
zebach (Hebrew #2077)
properly, a slaughter, i.e. the flesh of an animal; by implication, a sacrifice (the victim or the act)
KJV usage: offer(- ing), sacrifice.
Pronounce: zeh'-bakh
Origin: from 2076
; and the knowledge
da`ath (Hebrew #1847)
knowledge
KJV usage: cunning, (ig-)norantly, know(-ledge), (un-)awares (wittingly).
Pronounce: dah'-ath
Origin: from 3045
of God
'elohiym (Hebrew #430)
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative
KJV usage: angels, X exceeding, God (gods)(-dess, -ly), X (very) great, judges, X mighty.
Pronounce: el-o-heem'
Origin: plural of 433
more than burnt offerings
`olah (Hebrew #5930)
feminine active participle of 5927; a step or (collectively, stairs, as ascending); usually a holocaust (as going up in smoke)
KJV usage: ascent, burnt offering (sacrifice), go up to. See also 5766.
Pronounce: o-law'
Origin: or mowlah {o-law'}
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Matt. 9:13• 13But go and learn what that is--I will have mercy and not sacrifice; for I have not come to call righteous men but sinners. (Matt. 9:13)

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Burnt Offering or Sacrifice,
God,
Mercy,
Offering; Offering Up,
Sacrifice

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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I desired.
1 Sam. 15:22• 22And Samuel said, Has Jehovah delight in burnt-offerings and sacrifices, As in hearkening to the voice of Jehovah? Behold, obedience is better than sacrifice, Attention than the fat of rams. (1 Sam. 15:22)
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Psa. 50:8• 8I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices, or thy burnt-offerings, continually before me; (Psa. 50:8)
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Prov. 21:3• 3To exercise justice and judgment is more acceptable to Jehovah than sacrifice. (Prov. 21:3)
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Eccl. 5:1• 1Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and draw near to hear, rather than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they know not that they do evil. (Eccl. 5:1)
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Isa. 1:11• 11To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith Jehovah. I am sated with burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and in the blood of bullocks, and of lambs, and of he-goats I take no pleasure. (Isa. 1:11)
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Isa. 58:6• 6Is not this the fast which I have chosen: to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the thongs of the yoke, and to send forth free the crushed, and that ye break every yoke? (Isa. 58:6)
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Jer. 7:22• 22For I spoke not unto your fathers, nor commanded them concerning burnt-offerings and sacrifices, in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt; (Jer. 7:22)
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Dan. 4:27• 27Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity. (Dan. 4:27)
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Amos 5:21• 21I hate, I despise your feasts, and I will not smell a sweet odour in your solemn assemblies. (Amos 5:21)
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Mic. 6:6• 6Wherewith shall I come before Jehovah, bow myself before the high God? Shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, with calves of a year old? (Mic. 6:6)
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Matt. 5:7• 7Blessed the merciful, for *they* shall find mercy. (Matt. 5:7)
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Matt. 9:13• 13But go and learn what that is--I will have mercy and not sacrifice; for I have not come to call righteous men but sinners. (Matt. 9:13)
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Matt. 12:7• 7But if ye had known what is: I will have mercy and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless. (Matt. 12:7)
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Hos. 4:1• 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. (Hos. 4:1)
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1 Chron. 28:9• 9And thou, Solomon my son, know the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Jehovah searches all hearts, and discerns all the imaginations of the thoughts. If thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cut thee off for ever. (1 Chron. 28:9)
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Jer. 22:16• 16He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Was not this to know me? saith Jehovah. (Jer. 22:16)
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1 John 2:3• 3And hereby we know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. (1 John 2:3)
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1 John 3:6• 6Whoever abides in him, does not sin: whoever sins, has not seen him or known him. (1 John 3:6)
• “For I desired mercy:” this is what He loves, and to this end, that He may be morally vindicated in displaying it. (“Hosea 6” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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For I delight in loving-kindnessb, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.

JND Translation Notes

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b
Chesed, "goodness." see ver. 4.