Hosea 6:8

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But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.	Gilead [is] a city of them that work iniquity, [and is] polluted with blood.	And as troops of robbers wait for a man, [so] the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

Gilead^H1568 is a city^H7151 of them that work^H6466 iniquity^H205, and is polluted^H6121 with blood^H1818.

Original Hebrew

גִּלְעָד קִרְיַת פֹּעֲלֵי אָוֶן עֲקֻבָּה מִדָּם׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
גִּלְעָ֕ד	gil.'Ad	H1568	HNp	Gilead
קִרְיַ֖ת	kir.Yat	H7151	HNcfsc	(is) a town of
פֹּ֣עֲלֵי	Po.'a.lei	H6466	HVqrmpc	doers of
אָ֑וֶן	'A.ven	H205	HNcmsa	wickedness
עֲקֻבָּ֖ה	'a.ku.Bah	H6121	HAafsa	tracked
מִ/דָּֽם	mi./Dam	H1818	HR/Ncmsa	from/ blood

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

Strong's References

H205 — אָוֶן (ʼâven, aw-ven'): from an unused root perhaps meaning properly, to pant (hence, to exert oneself, usually in vain; to come to naught); strictly nothingness; also trouble. vanity, wickedness; specifically an idol; affliction, evil, false, idol, iniquity, mischief, mourners(-ing), naught, sorrow, unjust, unrighteous, vain, vanity, wicked(-ness). Compare אַיִן.
H1568 — גִּלְעָד (Gilʻâd, ghil-awd'): probably from גַּלְעֵד; Gilad, a region East of the Jordan; also the name of three Israelites; Gilead, Gileadite.
H1818 — דָּם (dâm, dawm): from דָּמַם (compare אָדַם); blood (as that which when shed causes death) of man or an animal; by analogy, the juice of the grape; figuratively (especially in the plural) bloodshed (i.e. drops of blood); blood(-y, -guiltiness, (-thirsty), [phrase] innocent.
H6121 — עָקֹב (ʻâqôb, aw-kobe'): from עָקַב; in the original sense, a knoll (as swelling up); in the denominative sense; (transitive) fraudulent or (intransitive) tracked; crooked, deceitful, polluted.
H6466 — פָּעַל (pâʻal, paw-al'): a primitive root; to do or make (systematically and habitually), especially to practise; commit, (evil-) do(-er), make(-r), ordain, work(-er).
H7151 — קִרְיָה (qiryâh, kir-yaw'): from קָרָה in the sense of flooring, i.e.; building; a city; city.

Cross References

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

Gilead — Joshua 21:38, Hosea 12:11
polluted with blood — 2 Samuel 3:27, 2 Samuel 20:8, 1 Kings 2:5, Psalms 10:8, Psalms 59:2, Isaiah 59:6, Jeremiah 11:19, Hosea 5:1, Micah 7:2, Matthew 26:15-16, Acts 23:12-15, Acts 25:3

Reciprocal references (1): Hosea 7:1

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