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Hosea 6

Hos. 6:8 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Gilead
Gil`ad (Hebrew #1568)
Gilad, a region East of the Jordan; also the name of three Israelites
KJV usage: Gilead, Gileadite.
Pronounce: ghil-awd'
Origin: probably from 1567
is a city
qiryah (Hebrew #7151)
a city
KJV usage: city.
Pronounce: kir-yaw'
Origin: from 7136 in the sense of flooring, i.e. building
of them that work
pa`al (Hebrew #6466)
to do or make (systematically and habitually), especially to practise
KJV usage: commit, (evil-) do(-er), make(-r), ordain, work(-er).
Pronounce: paw-al'
Origin: a primitive root
iniquity
'aven (Hebrew #205)
strictly nothingness; also trouble. vanity, wickedness; specifically an idol
KJV usage: affliction, evil, false, idol, iniquity, mischief, mourners(-ing), naught, sorrow, unjust, unrighteous, vain ,vanity, wicked(-ness). Compare 369.
Pronounce: aw-ven'
Origin: from an unused root perhaps meaning properly, to pant (hence, to exert oneself, usually in vain; to come to naught)
, and is κpolluted
`aqob (Hebrew #6121)
in the original sense, a knoll (as swelling up); in the denominative sense (transitive) fraudulent or (intransitive) tracked
KJV usage: crooked, deceitful, polluted.
Pronounce: aw-kobe'
Origin: from 6117
with blood
dam (Hebrew #1818)
blood (as that which when shed causes death) of man or an animal; by analogy, the juice of the grape; figuratively (especially in the plural) bloodshed (i.e. drops of blood)
KJV usage: blood(-y, -guiltiness, (-thirsty), + innocent.
Pronounce: dawm
Origin: from 1826 (compare 119)
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or, cunning for.

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Ministry on This Verse

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Gilead.
Hos. 12:11• 11If Gilead is iniquity, surely they are but vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields. (Hos. 12:11)
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Josh. 21:38• 38and out of the tribe of Gad, the city of refuge for the slayer, Ramoth in Gilead and its suburbs; and Mahanaim and its suburbs, (Josh. 21:38)
polluted with blood.
or, cunning for blood.
Hos. 5:1• 1Hear this, ye priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ear, O house of the king: for this judgment is for you; for ye have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor. (Hos. 5:1)
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2 Sam. 3:27• 27And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the gate to speak with him secretly, and smote him there in the belly, that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother. (2 Sam. 3:27)
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2 Sam. 20:8• 8When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa came before them. And Joab was girded with his coat, his dress, and upon it was the girdle of the sword which was fastened on his loins in its sheath; and as he went forth it fell out. (2 Sam. 20:8)
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1 Kings 2:5• 5And thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his girdle that was about his loins, and upon his sandals that were on his feet. (1 Kings 2:5)
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Psa. 10:8• 8He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages; in the secret places doth he slay the innocent: his eyes watch for the wretched. (Psa. 10:8)
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Psa. 59:2• 2Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from men of blood. (Psa. 59:2)
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Isa. 59:6• 6Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works; their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands. (Isa. 59:6)
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Jer. 11:19• 19And I was like a tame lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered. (Jer. 11:19)
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Mic. 7:2• 2The godly man hath perished out of the land, and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood, they hunt every man his brother with a net. (Mic. 7:2)
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Matt. 26:15‑16• 15and said, What are ye willing to give me, and *I* will deliver him up to you? And they appointed to him thirty pieces of silver.
 16And from that time he sought a good opportunity that he might deliver him up. (Matt. 26:15‑16)
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Acts 23:12‑15• 12And when it was day, the Jews, having banded together, put themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they should kill Paul.
 13And they were more than forty who had joined together in this oath;
 14and they went to the chief priests and elders, and said, We have cursed ourselves with a curse to taste nothing until we kill Paul.
 15Now therefore do ye with the council make a representation to the chiliarch so that he may bring him down to you, as about to determine more precisely what concerns him, and we, before he draws near, are ready to kill him. (Acts 23:12‑15)
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Acts 25:3• 3asking as a grace against him that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying people in wait to kill him on the way. (Acts 25:3)
• The region of Gilead, which was across the Jordan, is next specified. No city of the name is known: if none, the name is given by a bold figure to their corporate union in corruption and violence. (“Hosea 6” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity; it is tracked with bloodc.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "full of bloodmarks."