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Hosea 4:15

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← Hosea 4:14	Hosea 4:15 (KJV)	Hosea 4:16 →
I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people [that] doth not understand shall fall.	Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, [yet] let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Bethaven, nor swear, The LORD liveth.	For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

Though thou, Israel^H3478, play the harlot^H2181, yet let not Judah^H3063 offend^H816; and come^H935 not ye unto Gilgal^H1537, neither go ye up^H5927 to Bethaven^H1007, nor swear^H7650, The LORD^H3068 liveth^H2416.

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Original Hebrew

אִם־זֹנֶה אַתָּה יִשְׂרָאֵל אַל־יֶאְשַׁם יְהוּדָה וְאַל־תָּבֹאוּ הַגִּלְגָּל וְאַל־תַּעֲלוּ בֵּית אָוֶן וְאַל־תִּשָּׁבְעוּ חַי־יְהוָה׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
אִם	'im-	H518	HC	though
זֹנֶ֤ה	zo.Neh	H2181	HVqrmsa	(are) prostituting yourself
אַתָּה֙	'a.Tah	H859	HPp2ms	you
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל	Yis.ra.'El	H3478	HNp	O Israel
אַל	'al-	H408	HTn	may not
יֶאְשַׁ֖ם	ye'.Sham	H816	HVqj3ms	it become guilty
יְהוּדָ֑ה	ye.hu.Dah	H3063	HNp	Judah
וְ/אַל	ve./'al-	H408	HC/Tn	and/ may not
תָּבֹ֣אוּ	ta.Vo.'u	H935	HVqj2mp	you go
הַ/גִּלְגָּ֗ל	ha./gil.Gal	H1537	HTd/Np	(the)/ Gilgal
וְ/אַֽל	ve./'al-	H408	HC/Tn	and/ may not
תַּעֲלוּ֙	ta.'a.Lu	H5927	HVqj2mp	you go up
בֵּ֣ית	beit	H1007	HNp	Beth
אָ֔וֶן	'A.ven	H1007	HNp	Aven
וְ/אַל	ve./'al-	H408	HC/Tn	and/ may not
תִּשָּׁבְע֖וּ	ti.sha.ve.'U	H7650	HVNj2mp	you swear
חַי	chai-	H2416	HAamsa	(by) (the) life
יְהוָֽה	Yah.weh	H3068	HNp	of Yahweh

Source: Westminster Leningrad Codex (MorphHB), TAHOT (Tyndale House)

Strong's References

• H816 — אָשַׁם (ʼâsham, aw-sham'): or אָשֵׁם; a primitive root; to be guilty; by implication to be punished or perish; [idiom] certainly, be(-come, made) desolate, destroy, [idiom] greatly, be(-come, found, hold) guilty, offend (acknowledge offence), trespass.
• H935 — בּוֹא (bôwʼ, bo): a primitive root; to go or come (in a wide variety of applications); abide, apply, attain, [idiom] be, befall, [phrase] besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry, [idiom] certainly, (cause, let, thing for) to come (against, in, out, upon, to pass), depart, [idiom] doubtless again, [phrase] eat, [phrase] employ, (cause to) enter (in, into, -tering, -trance, -try), be fallen, fetch, [phrase] follow, get, give, go (down, in, to war), grant, [phrase] have, [idiom] indeed, (in-) vade, lead, lift (up), mention, pull in, put, resort, run (down), send, set, [idiom] (well) stricken (in age), [idiom] surely, take (in), way.
• H1007 — בֵּית אָוֶן (Bêyth ʼÂven, bayth aw'-ven): from בַּיִת and אָוֶן; house of vanity; Beth-Aven, a place in Palestine; Beth-aven.
• H1537 — גִּלְגָּל (Gilgâl, ghil-gawl'): the same as גִּלְגָּל (with the article as a properly, noun); Gilgal, the name of three places in Palestine; Gilgal. See also בֵּית הַגִּלְגָּל.
• H2181 — זָנָה (zânâh, zaw-naw'): a primitive root (highly-fed and therefore wanton); 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); (cause to) commit fornication, [idiom] continually, [idiom] great, (be an, play the) harlot, (cause to be, play the) whore, (commit, fall to) whoredom, (cause to) go a-whoring, whorish.
• H2416 — חַי (chay, khah'-ee): from חָיָה; alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or living thing), whether literally or figuratively; [phrase] age, alive, appetite, (wild) beast, company, congregation, life(-time), live(-ly), living (creature, thing), maintenance, [phrase] merry, multitude, [phrase] (be) old, quick, raw, running, springing, troop.
• H3063 — יְהוּדָה (Yᵉhûwdâh, yeh-hoo-daw'): from יָדָה; celebrated; Jehudah (or Judah), the name of five Israelites; also of the tribe descended from the first, and of its territory; Judah.
• H3068 — יְהֹוָה (Yᵉhôvâh, yeh-ho-vaw'): from הָיָה; (the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God; Jehovah, the Lord. Compare יָהּ, יְהֹוִה.
• H3478 — יִשְׂרָאֵל (Yisrâʼêl, yis-raw-ale'): from שָׂרָה and אֵל; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity; Israel.
• H5927 — עָלָה (ʻâlâh, aw-law'): a primitive root; to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative; arise (up), (cause to) ascend up, at once, break (the day) (up), bring (up), (cause to) burn, carry up, cast up, [phrase] 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, [idiom] mention, mount up, offer, make to pay, [phrase] 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.
• H7650 — שָׁבַע (shâbaʻ, shaw-bah'): a primitive root; properly to be complete, but used only as a denominative from שֶׁבַע; to seven oneself, i.e. swear (as if by repeating a declaration seven times); adjure, charge (by an oath, with an oath), feed to the full (by mistake for שָׂבַע), take an oath, [idiom] straitly, (cause to, make to) swear.

The following Strong's numbers are referenced in the Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) text but were not explicitly tagged in the KJV source:

• H408 — אַל (ʼal, al): a negative particle (akin to לֹא); not (the qualified negation, used as a deprecative); once (Job 24:25) as a noun, nothing; nay, neither, [phrase] never, no, nor, not, nothing (worth), rather than.
• H518 — אִם (ʼim, eem): a primitive particle; used very widely as demonstrative, lo!; interrogative, whether?; or conditional, if, although; also Oh that!, when; hence, as a negative, not; (and, can-, doubtless, if, that) (not), [phrase] but, either, [phrase] except, [phrase] more(-over if, than), neither, nevertheless, nor, oh that, or, [phrase] save (only, -ing), seeing, since, sith, [phrase] surely (no more, none, not), though, [phrase] of a truth, [phrase] unless, [phrase] verily, when, whereas, whether, while, [phrase] yet.
• H859 — אַתָּה (ʼattâh, at-taw'): or (shortened); אַתָּ; or אַת; feminine (irregular) sometimes אַתִּי; plural masculine אַתֶּם; feminine אַתֶּן; or אַתֵּנָהlemma אתֵּנָה missing vowel, corrected to אַתֵּנָה; or אַתֵּנָּה; a primitive pronoun of the second person; thou and thee, or (plural) ye and you; thee, thou, ye, you.

Cross References

Verse Cross-References (Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, Enhanced)

• Bethaven — 1 Kings 12:28-29, Hosea 5:8, Hosea 10:5, Hosea 10:8
• Gilgal — Hosea 9:15, Hosea 12:11, Amos 4:4, Amos 5:5
• nor — Isaiah 48:1, Jeremiah 5:2, Ezekiel 20:39, Amos 6:10, Amos 8:14, Zephaniah 1:5-6
• play — Jeremiah 3:6-10, Ezekiel 23:4-8, Hosea 4:12
• yet — 2 Kings 17:18-19, Jeremiah 3:10-11, Hosea 11:12, Luke 12:47-48, Ephesians 5:11

Reciprocal references (13): Genesis 28:19, Genesis 38:24, Joshua 7:2, Joshua 18:12, 1 Samuel 13:5, 2 Samuel 19:20, 2 Kings 2:23, 2 Kings 17:13, 2 Kings 23:4, 2 Chronicles 17:4, Jeremiah 3:8, Jeremiah 5:7, Micah 1:1

Related Topics

• Thompson Chain: BETH-AVEN, GILGAL
• Nave’s: BETH-AVEN, EXAMPLE, GILGAL, IDOLATRY, OATH

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