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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,
Ephraim

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Ministry on This Verse

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they.
Hos. 5:13• 13When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound. (Hos. 5:13)
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Hos. 7:11• 11Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria. (Hos. 7:11)
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2 Kings 15:19• 19And Pul 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 confirm the kingdom in his hand. (2 Kings 15:19)
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Ezek. 23:5‑9• 5And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbors,
 6Which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.
 7Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself.
 8Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her.
 9Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted. (Ezek. 23:5‑9)
a wild.
Job 39:5‑8• 5Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?
 6Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.
 7He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying 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• 24A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can 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 make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
 7And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she 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 lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand. (Hos. 2:5‑7,10)
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Hos. 12:1• 1Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt. (Hos. 12:1)
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Isa. 30:6• 6The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them. (Isa. 30:6)
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Ezek. 16:33‑34• 33They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom.
 34And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy whoredoms, whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms: and in that thou givest a reward, and no reward is given unto thee, therefore thou art 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.