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Hosea 9

Hos. 9:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Rejoice
samach (Hebrew #8055)
probably to brighten up, i.e. (figuratively) be (causatively, make) blithe or gleesome
KJV usage: cheer up, be (make) glad, (have, make) joy(-ful), be (make) merry, (cause to, make to) rejoice, X very.
Pronounce: saw-makh'
Origin: a primitive root
not, O Israel
Yisra'el (Hebrew #3478)
from 8280 and 410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: --Israel.
Pronounce: yis-raw-ale'
, for joy
giyl (Hebrew #1524)
a revolution (of time, i.e. an age); also joy
KJV usage: X exceedingly, gladness, X greatly, joy, rejoice(-ing), sort.
Pronounce: gheel
Origin: from 1523
, as other people
`am (Hebrew #5971)
a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
KJV usage: folk, men, nation, people.
Pronounce: am
Origin: from 6004
: for thou hast gone a whoring
zanah (Hebrew #2181)
to commit adultery (usually of the female, and less often of simple fornication, rarely of involuntary ravishment); figuratively, to commit idolatry (the Jewish people being regarded as the spouse of Jehovah)
KJV usage: (cause to) commit fornication, X continually, X great, (be an, play the) harlot, (cause to be, play the) whore, (commit, fall to) whoredom, (cause to) go a-whoring, whorish.
Pronounce: zaw-naw'
Origin: a primitive root (highly-fed and therefore wanton)
from thy God
'elohiym (Hebrew #430)
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative
KJV usage: angels, X exceeding, God (gods)(-dess, -ly), X (very) great, judges, X mighty.
Pronounce: el-o-heem'
Origin: plural of 433
, thou hast loved
'ahab (Hebrew #157)
a primitive root; to have affection for (sexually or otherwise)
KJV usage: (be-)love(-d, -ly, -r), like, friend.
Pronounce: aw-hab'
Origin: or raheb {aw-habe'}
a reward
'ethnan (Hebrew #868)
a gift (as the price of harlotry or idolatry)
KJV usage: hire, reward.
Pronounce: eth-nan'
Origin: the same as 866
θupon every cornfloor
dagan (Hebrew #1715)
properly, increase, i.e. grain
KJV usage: corn ((floor)), wheat.
Pronounce: daw-gawn'
Origin: from 1711
goren (Hebrew #1637)
a threshing- floor (as made even); by analogy, any open area
KJV usage: (barn, corn, threshing- )floor, (threshing-, void) place.
Pronounce: go'-ren
Origin: from an unused root meaning to smooth
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Ministry on This Verse

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1-17:  The distress and captivity of Israel for their sins.
Rejoice.
Hos. 10:5• 5The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calf of Beth-aven; for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the idolatrous priests thereof shall tremble for it, for its glory, because it is departed from it. (Hos. 10:5)
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Isa. 17:11• 11in the day of thy planting wilt thou make them to grow, and on the morrow wilt thou make thy seed to flourish; but the harvest will flee in the day of taking possession, and the sorrow will be incurable. (Isa. 17:11)
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Isa. 22:12• 12And in that day did the Lord Jehovah of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth; (Isa. 22:12)
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Lam. 4:21• 21Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz: the cup shall pass also unto thee; thou shalt be drunken, and make thyself naked. (Lam. 4:21)
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Ezek. 21:10• 10It is sharpened for sore slaughter, it is furbished that it may glitter. Shall we then make mirth, saying, The sceptre of my son contemneth all wood? (Ezek. 21:10)
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Amos 6:6‑7,13• 6that drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments; but are not grieved for the breach of Joseph.
 7Therefore shall they now go captive, with the first that go captive, and the revelry of them that stretched themselves shall pass away.
 13--ye that rejoice in a thing of nought, that say, Have we not taken to us power by our own strength? (Amos 6:6‑7,13)
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Amos 8:10• 10And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning for an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day. (Amos 8:10)
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James 4:16• 16But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil. (James 4:16)
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James 5:1• 1Go to now, ye rich, weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon you. (James 5:1)
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Ezek. 16:47‑48• 47And thou hast not walked in their ways, nor done according to their abominations; but as though that were a very little, thou hast been more corrupt than they in all thy ways.
 48As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters! (Ezek. 16:47‑48)
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Ezek. 20:32• 32And that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all, that ye say, We will be as the nations, as the families of the countries, in serving wood and stone. (Ezek. 20:32)
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Amos 3:2• 2You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore will I visit upon you all your iniquities. (Amos 3:2)
gone.
Hos. 4:12• 12My people ask counsel of their stock, and their staff declareth unto them; for the spirit of whoredoms causeth them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God: (Hos. 4:12)
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Hos. 5:4,7• 4Their doings do not allow them to return unto their God; for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they know not Jehovah.
 7They have dealt treacherously against Jehovah; for they have begotten strange children: now shall the new moon devour them, with their allotted possessions. (Hos. 5:4,7)
thou hast loved.
Hos. 2:12• 12And I will make desolate her vine and her fig-tree, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards which my lovers have given me; and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them. (Hos. 2:12)
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Jer. 44:17• 17but we will certainly do every word that is gone forth out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the heavens, and to pour out drink-offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and we had plenty of bread, and were well, and saw no evil. (Jer. 44:17)
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or, in, etc.
• Hosea 9 sets out the joyless doom of Israel for their lewd departure from their God; for they had taken their corn as a harlot’s hire from their false gods. (“Hosea 9” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Rejoice not, Israel, exultingly, as the peoples; for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved harlot’s hire upon every corn-floor.