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Hosea 8

Hos. 8:9 KJV (With Strong’s)

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For they are gone up
`alah (Hebrew #5927)
to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative (as follow)
KJV usage: arise (up), (cause to) ascend up, at once, break (the day) (up), bring (up), (cause to) burn, carry up, cast up, + shew, climb (up), (cause to, make to) come (up), cut off, dawn, depart, exalt, excel, fall, fetch up, get up, (make to) go (away, up); grow (over) increase, lay, leap, levy, lift (self) up, light, (make) up, X mention, mount up, offer, make to pay, + perfect, prefer, put (on), raise, recover, restore, (make to) rise (up), scale, set (up), shoot forth (up), (begin to) spring (up), stir up, take away (up), work.
Pronounce: aw-law'
Origin: a primitive root
to Assyria
'Ashshuwr (Hebrew #804)
apparently from 833 (in the sense of successful); Ashshur, the second son of Shem; also his descendants and the country occupied by them (i.e. Assyria), its region and its empire
KJV usage: Asshur, Assur, Assyria, Assyrians. See 838.
Pronounce: ash-shoor'
Origin: or iAshshur {ash-shoor'}
, a wild ass
pere' (Hebrew #6501)
from 6500 in the secondary sense of running wild; the onager
KJV usage: wild (ass).
Pronounce: peh'-reh
Origin: or pereh (Jeremiah 2:24) {peh'-reh}
alone
badad (Hebrew #909)
to divide, i.e. (reflex.) be solitary
KJV usage: alone.
Pronounce: baw-dad'
Origin: a primitive root
by himself: Ephraim
'Ephrayim (Hebrew #669)
double fruit; Ephrajim, a son of Joseph; also the tribe descended from him, and its territory
KJV usage: Ephraim, Ephraimites.
Pronounce: ef-rah'-yim
Origin: dual of masculine form of 672
hath hired
tanah (Hebrew #8566)
to present (a mercenary inducement), i.e. bargain with (a harlot)
KJV usage: hire.
Pronounce: taw-naw'
Origin: a primitive root
φlovers
'ahab (Hebrew #158)
affection (in a good or a bad sense)
KJV usage: love(-r).
Pronounce: ah'-hab
Origin: from 157
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loves.

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Ass,
Assyria,
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Ministry on This Verse

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they.
Hos. 5:13• 13When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his sore, then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb; but he was unable to heal you, nor hath he removed your sore. (Hos. 5:13)
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Hos. 7:11• 11And Ephraim is become like a silly dove without understanding: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria. (Hos. 7:11)
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2 Kings 15:19• 19Pul the king of Assyria came against the land; and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to establish the kingdom in his hand. (2 Kings 15:19)
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Ezek. 23:5‑9• 5And Oholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she lusted after her lovers, after the Assyrians her neighbours,
 6clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them attractive young men, horsemen riding upon horses.
 7And she bestowed her whoredoms upon them, all of them the choice of the children of Asshur; and with all after whom she lusted, with all their idols she defiled herself.
 8Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt; for in her youth they had lain with her, and had handled the breasts of her virginity, and poured their fornication upon her.
 9Therefore I gave her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the children of Asshur, after whom she lusted. (Ezek. 23:5‑9)
a wild.
Job 39:5‑8• 5Who hath sent out the wild ass free? and who hath loosed the bands of the onager,
 6Whose house I made the wilderness, and the salt plain his dwellings?
 7He laugheth at the tumult of the city, and heareth not the shouts of the driver;
 8The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing. (Job 39:5‑8)
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Jer. 2:24• 24--a wild ass, used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind in her desire! In her ardour, who shall turn her away? All they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her. (Jer. 2:24)
hath.
Hos. 2:5‑7,10• 5For their mother hath played the harlot; she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.
 6Therefore behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns; and I will fence her in with a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
 7And she shall pursue after her lovers, and shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, and shall not find them: and she shall say, I will go and return to my first husband, for then was it better with me than now.
 10And now will I discover her impiety in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of my hand. (Hos. 2:5‑7,10)
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Hos. 12:1• 1Ephraim feedeth on wind, and pursueth after the east wind: all day long he multiplieth lies and desolation; and they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt. (Hos. 12:1)
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Isa. 30:6• 6--The burden of the beasts of the south: Through a land of trouble and anguish, whence come the lioness and lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches upon the shoulders of asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to the people that shall not profit them. (Isa. 30:6)
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Ezek. 16:33‑34• 33They give rewards to all harlots; but thou gavest thy rewards to all thy lovers, and rewardedst them, that they might come unto thee on every side for thy whoredoms.
 34And in thee is the contrary from other women, in thy whoredoms, in that none followeth thee to commit fornication; and whereas thou givest a reward, and no reward is given unto thee, so art thou contrary. (Ezek. 16:33‑34)
lovers.
Heb. loves.
• They sought the shelter of Assyria, and there should they be carried in shame. (“Hosea 8” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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For they are gone up to Assyria as a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.