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Hosea 8

Hos. 8:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Set the trumpet
showphar (Hebrew #7782)
from 8231 in the original sense of incising; a cornet (as giving a clear sound) or curved horn
KJV usage: cornet, trumpet.
Pronounce: sho-far'
Origin: or shophar {sho-far'}
to θthy mouth
chek (Hebrew #2441)
properly, the palate or inside of the mouth; hence, the mouth itself (as the organ of speech, taste and kissing)
KJV usage: (roof of the) mouth, taste.
Pronounce: khake
Origin: probably from 2596 in the sense of tasting
. He shall come as an eagle
nesher (Hebrew #5404)
the eagle (or other large bird of prey)
KJV usage: eagle.
Pronounce: neh'-sher
Origin: from an unused root meaning to lacerate
against the house
bayith (Hebrew #1004)
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
KJV usage: court, daughter, door, + dungeon, family, + forth of, X great as would contain, hangings, home(born), (winter)house(-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, + prison, + steward, + tablet, temple, web, + within(-out).
Pronounce: bah'-yith
Origin: probably from 1129 abbreviated
of 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
, because they have transgressed
`abar (Hebrew #5674)
to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in copulation)
KJV usage: alienate, alter, X at all, beyond, bring (over, through), carry over, (over-)come (on, over), conduct (over), convey over, current, deliver, do away, enter, escape, fail, gender, get over, (make) go (away, beyond, by, forth, his way, in, on, over, through), have away (more), lay, meddle, overrun, make partition, (cause to, give, make to, over) pass(-age, along, away, beyond, by, -enger, on, out, over, through), (cause to, make) + proclaim(-amation), perish, provoke to anger, put away, rage, + raiser of taxes, remove, send over, set apart, + shave, cause to (make) sound, X speedily, X sweet smelling, take (away), (make to) transgress(-or), translate, turn away, (way-)faring man, be wrath.
Pronounce: aw-bar'
Origin: a primitive root
my covenant
briyth (Hebrew #1285)
a compact (because made by passing between pieces of flesh)
KJV usage: confederacy, (con-)feder(-ate), covenant, league.
Pronounce: ber-eeth'
Origin: from 1262 (in the sense of cutting (like 1254))
, and trespassed
pasha` (Hebrew #6586)
to break away (from just authority), i.e. trespass, apostatize, quarrel
KJV usage: offend, rebel, revolt, transgress(-ion, -or).
Pronounce: paw-shah'
Origin: a primitive root (identical with 6585 through the idea of expansion)
against my law
towrah (Hebrew #8451)
from 3384; a precept or statute, especially the Decalogue or Pentateuch
KJV usage: law.
Pronounce: to-raw'
Origin: or torah {to-raw'}
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the roof of thy.

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Covenant,
Eagle,
House,
Law,
Trespass,
Trumpets

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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1-14:  Destruction is threatened both to Israel and Judah for their impiety and idolatry.
the trumpet.
Hos. 5:8• 8Blow the horn in Gibeah, the trumpet in Ramah; cry aloud at Beth-aven: behind thee, O Benjamin! (Hos. 5:8)
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Isa. 18:3• 3All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, when a banner is lifted up on the mountains, see ye, and when a trumpet is blown, hear ye! (Isa. 18:3)
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Isa. 58:1• 1Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and declare unto my people their transgression, and to the house of Jacob their sins. (Isa. 58:1)
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Jer. 4:5• 5Declare ye in Judah, and cause it to be heard in Jerusalem, and say, … and blow the trumpet in the land, cry aloud and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fenced cities. (Jer. 4:5)
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Jer. 6:1• 1Flee for safety, ye children of Benjamin, out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a signal in Beth-haccerem; for evil appeareth out of the north, and a great destruction. (Jer. 6:1)
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Jer. 51:27• 27Lift up a banner in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare nations against her; call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the bristly caterpillars. (Jer. 51:27)
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Ezek. 7:14• 14They have blown the trumpet and made all ready, but none goeth to the battle; for my fierce anger is upon all the multitude thereof. (Ezek. 7:14)
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Ezek. 33:3‑6• 3if he see the sword coming upon the land, and blow the trumpet, and warn the people;
 4then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning, if the sword come and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head.
 5He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood is upon him: whereas had he taken warning, he would have delivered his soul.
 6But if the watchman see the sword coming, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned, if the sword come and take a person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand. (Ezek. 33:3‑6)
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Joel 2:1,15• 1Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain; let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of Jehovah cometh, for it is at hand;
 15Blow the trumpet in Zion, hallow a fast, proclaim a solemn assembly; (Joel 2:1,15)
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Amos 3:6• 6Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? Shall there be evil in a city, and Jehovah not have done it? (Amos 3:6)
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Zeph. 1:16• 16a day of the trumpet and alarm, against the fenced cities and against the high battlements. (Zeph. 1:16)
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Zech. 9:14• 14And Jehovah shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning; and the Lord Jehovah will blow the trumpet, and will march with whirlwinds of the south. (Zech. 9:14)
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1 Cor. 15:52• 52in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and *we* shall be changed. (1 Cor. 15:52)
thy mouth.
Heb. the roof of thy mouth.
as.
Deut. 28:49• 49Jehovah will bring a nation against thee from afar, from the end of the earth, like as the eagle flieth, a nation whose tongue thou understandest not; (Deut. 28:49)
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Jer. 4:13• 13Behold, he cometh up as clouds, and his chariots are as a whirlwind; his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are destroyed. (Jer. 4:13)
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Jer. 48:40• 40For thus saith Jehovah: Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread forth his wings over Moab. (Jer. 48:40)
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Hab. 1:8• 8And their horses are swifter than the leopards, and are more agile than the evening wolves; and their horsemen prance proudly, and their horsemen come from afar: they fly as an eagle that hasteth to devour. (Hab. 1:8)
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Matt. 24:28• 28For wherever the carcase is, there will be gathered the eagles. (Matt. 24:28)
the house.
Hos. 9:15• 15All their wickedness is in Gilgal; for there I hated them: because of the wickedness of their doings, I will drive them out of my house, I will love them no more: all their princes are rebellious. (Hos. 9:15)
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2 Kings 18:27• 27And Rab-shakeh said to them, Is it to thy master and to thee that my master sent me to speak these words? Is it not to the men that sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you? (2 Kings 18:27)
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Amos 8:3• 3And the songs of the palace shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord Jehovah. The dead bodies shall be many; in every place they shall be cast forth. Silence! (Amos 8:3)
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Amos 9:1• 1I saw the Lord standing upon the altar; and he said, Smite the chapiter that the thresholds may shake; and break all of them in pieces, in the head; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not get away by flight, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered. (Amos 9:1)
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Zech. 11:1• 1Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars. (Zech. 11:1)
transgressed.
Hos. 6:7• 7But they like Adam have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me. (Hos. 6:7)
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Isa. 24:5• 5And the land is polluted under the inhabitants thereof; for they have violated the laws, changed the statute, broken the everlasting covenant. (Isa. 24:5)
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Jer. 31:32• 32not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day of my taking them by the hand, to lead them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they broke, although I was a husband unto them, saith Jehovah. (Jer. 31:32)
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Ezek. 16:59• 59For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, who hast despised the oath, and broken the covenant. (Ezek. 16:59)
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Heb. 8:8‑13• 8For finding fault, he says to them, Behold, days come, saith the Lord, and I will consummate a new covenant as regards the house of Israel, and as regards the house of Juda;
 9not according to the covenant which I made to their fathers in the day of my taking their hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because *they* did not continue in my covenant, and *I* did not regard them, saith the Lord.
 10Because this is the covenant that I will covenant to the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord: Giving my laws into their mind, I will write them also upon their hearts; and I will be to them for God, and *they* shall be to me for people.
 11And they shall not teach each his fellow-citizen, and each his brother, saying, Know the Lord; because all shall know me in themselves, from the little one among them unto the great among them.
 12Because I will be merciful to their unrighteousnesses, and their sins and their lawlessnesses I will never remember any more.
 13In that he says New, he has made the first old; but that which grows old and aged is near disappearing. (Heb. 8:8‑13)
• The trumpet is clearly the announcement of the purpose of God in any given case. Here it is the sound of imminent judgment. (“Hosea 8” by W. Kelly)
• The eagles are a figure of the instruments of divine vengeance surely and rapidly coming to their prey. (“Hosea 8” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Set the trumpeta to thy mouth. He cometh as an eagle against the house of Jehovah, because they have transgressed my covenant, and rebelled against my law.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "horn," as ch. 5.8.