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Hosea 8

Hos. 8:12 KJV (With Strong’s)

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I have written
kathab (Hebrew #3789)
to grave, by implication, to write (describe, inscribe, prescribe, subscribe)
KJV usage: describe, record, prescribe, subscribe, write(-ing, -ten).
Pronounce: kaw-thab'
Origin: a primitive root
to him the great things
ribbow (Hebrew #7239)
or ribbow {rib-bo'} from 7231; a myriad, i.e. indefinitely, large number
KJV usage: great things, ten ((eight)-een, (for)-ty, + sixscore, + threescore, X twenty, (twen)-ty) thousand.
Pronounce: rib-bo'
Origin: from 7231
rob (Hebrew #7230)
abundance (in any respect)
KJV usage: abundance(- antly), all, X common (sort), excellent, great(-ly, -ness, number), huge, be increased, long, many, more in number, most, much, multitude, plenty(-ifully), X very (age).
Pronounce: robe
Origin: from 7231
of 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'}
, but they were counted
chashab (Hebrew #2803)
properly, to plait or interpenetrate, i.e. (literally) to weave or (gen.) to fabricate; figuratively, to plot or contrive (usually in a malicious sense); hence (from the mental effort) to think, regard, value, compute
KJV usage: (make) account (of), conceive, consider, count, cunning (man, work, workman), devise, esteem, find out, forecast, hold, imagine, impute, invent, be like, mean, purpose, reckon(-ing be made), regard, think.
Pronounce: khaw-shab'
Origin: a primitive root
as a strange thing
zuwr (Hebrew #2114)
to turn aside (especially for lodging); hence to be a foreigner, strange, profane; specifically (active participle) to commit adultery
KJV usage: (come from) another (man, place), fanner, go away, (e-)strange(-r, thing, woman).
Pronounce: zoor
Origin: a primitive root
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Deut. 4:6‑8• 6And ye shall keep and do them; for that will be your wisdom and your understanding before the eyes of the peoples that shall hear all these statutes, and say, Verily this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
 7For what great nation is there that hath God near to them as Jehovah our God is in everything we call upon him for?
 8And what great nation is there that hath righteous statutes and ordinances, as all this law which I set before you this day? (Deut. 4:6‑8)
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Neh. 9:13‑14• 13And thou camest down on mount Sinai, and didst speak with them from the heavens, and gavest them right judgments and true laws, good statutes and commandments.
 14And thou madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and prescribedst for them commandments and statutes and a law, through Moses thy servant. (Neh. 9:13‑14)
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Psa. 119:18• 18Open mine eyes, and I shall behold wondrous things out of thy law. (Psa. 119:18)
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Psa. 147:19‑20• 19He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.
 20He hath not dealt thus with any nation; and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Hallelujah! (Psa. 147:19‑20)
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Prov. 22:20• 20Have not I written to thee excellent things, in counsels and knowledge, (Prov. 22:20)
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Ezek. 20:11• 11And I gave them my statutes, and made known unto them mine ordinances, which if a man do, he shall live by them. (Ezek. 20:11)
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Rom. 3:1• 1What then is the superiority of the Jew? or what the profit of circumcision? (Rom. 3:1)
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Rom. 7:12• 12So that the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. (Rom. 7:12)
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Hos. 4:6• 6My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; for thou hast rejected knowledge, and I will reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me; seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children. (Hos. 4:6)
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2 Kings 17:15‑16• 15And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant which he had made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he had testified unto them; and they followed vanity and became vain, and went after the nations that were round about them, concerning whom Jehovah had charged them that they should not do like them.
 16And they forsook all the commandments of Jehovah their God, and made them molten images, two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshipped all the host of the heavens, and served Baal; (2 Kings 17:15‑16)
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Neh. 9:26• 26But they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets who testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations. (Neh. 9:26)
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Psa. 50:17• 17Seeing thou hast hated correction and hast cast my words behind thee? (Psa. 50:17)
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Isa. 30:9• 9that this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of Jehovah; (Isa. 30:9)
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Jer. 6:16‑17• 16Thus saith Jehovah: Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the ancient paths, which is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.
 17Also I have set watchmen over you:--Hearken ye to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken. (Jer. 6:16‑17)

J. N. Darby Translation

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I have prescribed unto him the manifold things of my law: they are counted as a strange thing.