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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 ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud at Beth-aven after thee, O Benjamin. (Hos. 5:8)
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Isa. 18:3• 3All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye when an ensign is lifted up on the mountains; 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• 27Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough 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 when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he 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 shall be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul.
 6But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any 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 ye 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 nigh at hand;
 15Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call 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 hath not 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 towers. (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 shall blow the trumpet, and shall go 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 it shall sound, and the dead shall rise 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 shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind; his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! for we are spoiled. (Jer. 4:13)
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Jer. 48:40• 40For thus saith Jehovah; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab. (Jer. 48:40)
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Hab. 1:8• 8Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; and they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat. (Hab. 1:8)
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Matt. 24:28• 28Wherever the carcass is, there will the eagles be gathered. (Matt. 24:28)
the house.
Hos. 9:15• 15All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters. (Hos. 9:15)
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2 Kings 18:27• 27But Rab-Shakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, 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 temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord Jehovah; there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence! (Amos 8:3)
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Amos 9:1• 1I saw the Lord standing upon the altar; and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, 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• 5The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof, for they have transgressed 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 that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith Jehovah. (Jer. 31:32)
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Ezek. 16:59• 59For thus saith the Lord Jehovah, I also will act toward thee as thou hast acted, who hast despised the oath, breaking the covenant. (Ezek. 16:59)
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Heb. 8:8‑13• 8For finding fault he saith to them, Behold, days come, saith Jehovah, and I will make a new covenant on the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;
 9not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers in a day when I took their hand to lead them out of Egypt's land; because they continued not in my covenant, and I disregarded them, saith Jehovah.
 10Because this [is] the covenant which I will covenant to the house of Israel after those days, saith Jehovah, giving my laws into their mind, I will also write them 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 inwardly know me from little of them unto great of them;
 12because I will be merciful to their unrighteousnesses, and their sins and their lawlessnesses I will never remember more.
 13In his saying, New, he hath made the first old; but that which groweth 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.

W. Kelly Translation

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Set the trumpet to thy mouth. he shall come as an eagle against the house of Jehovah, because they have transgressed my covenant, and rebelled against my law.

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)