Hosea 12:9

American Standard Version (1901)

But I am Jehovah thy God from the land of Egypt; I will yet again make thee to dwell in tents, as in the days of the solemn feast.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֶפְרַ֔יִם אַ֣ךְ עָשַׁ֔רְתִּי מָצָ֥אתִי א֖וֹן לִ֑י כָּל־יְגִיעַ֕י לֹ֥א יִמְצְאוּ־לִ֖י עָוֺ֥ן אֲשֶׁר־חֵֽטְא׃

Transliteration

way-yōʾmer ʾeprayim ʾak ʿāšartî māṣāʾtî ʾôn to-me all-yĕgîʿay not yimṣĕʾû-to-me ʿāwōn which-ḥēṭĕʾ

Grammar Details

• *way-yōʾmer*: conjunction + verb, qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular with waw consecutive - and he said
• *ʾeprayim*: proper noun - Ephraim
• *ʾak*: adverb - surely/only
• *ʿāšartî*: verb, qal perfect 1st singular - I have become rich
• *māṣāʾtî*: verb, qal perfect 1st singular - I have found
• *ʾôn*: noun, masculine singular - wealth/strength/power
• *yĕgîʿay*: noun, masculine plural construct with 1st singular suffix - my labors/toils
• *yimṣĕʾû*: verb, qal imperfect 3rd plural - they will find
• *ʿāwōn*: noun, masculine singular - iniquity/guilt/sin
• *ḥēṭĕʾ*: noun, masculine singular - sin/offense

Word Meanings

• *ʿāšartî*: I have become rich/I have gained wealth
• *ʾôn*: wealth/strength/power/ability
• *yĕgîʿay*: my labors/my earnings/my toil
• *ʿāwōn*: iniquity/guilt/sin/wrongdoing
• *ḥēṭĕʾ*: sin/offense/wrongdoing

Referenced Verses

• Lev 23:40-43 : 40 And ye shall take you on the first day the fruit of goodly trees, branches of palm-trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before Jehovah your God seven days. 41 And ye shall keep it a feast unto Jehovah seven days in the year: it is a statute for ever throughout your generations; ye shall keep it in the seventh month. 42 Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are home-born in Israel shall dwell in booths; 43 that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am Jehovah your God.
• Neh 8:15-17 : 15 and that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive branches, and branches of wild olive, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written. 16 So the people went forth, and brought them, and made themselves booths, every one upon the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the broad place of the water gate, and in the broad place of the gate of Ephraim. 17 And all the assembly of them that were come again out of the captivity made booths, and dwelt in the booths; for since the days of Jeshua the son of Nun unto that day had not the children of Israel done so. And there was very great gladness.
• Hos 13:4 : 4 Yet I am Jehovah thy God from the land of Egypt; and thou shalt know no god but me, and besides me there is no saviour.
• Mic 6:4 : 4 For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of bondage; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
• Zech 14:16-19 : 16 And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, Jehovah of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles. 17 And it shall be, that whoso of [all] the families of the earth goeth not up unto Jerusalem to worship the King, Jehovah of hosts, upon them there shall be no rain. 18 And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, neither [shall it be] upon them; there shall be the plague wherewith Jehovah will smite the nations that go not up to keep the feast of tabernacles. 19 This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations that go not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
• John 7:2 : 2 Now the feast of the Jews, the feast of tabernacles, was at hand.
• Heb 11:9-9 : 9 By faith he became a sojourner in the land of promise, as in a [land] not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: 10 for he looked for the city which hath the foundations, whose builder and maker is God. 11 By faith even Sarah herself received power to conceive seed when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised: 12 wherefore also there sprang of one, and him as good as dead, [so many] as the stars of heaven in multitude, and as the sand, which is by the sea-shore, innumerable. 13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
• Ps 81:10 : 10 I am Jehovah thy God, Who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt: Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
• Jer 35:7 : 7 neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any; but all your days ye shall dwell in tents; that ye may live many days in the land wherein ye sojourn.
• Gen 25:27 : 27 And the boys grew: and Esau was a skilful hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a quiet man, dwelling in tents.
• Exod 20:2 : 2 I am Jehovah thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
• Lev 19:36 : 36 Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
• Lev 26:13 : 13 I am Jehovah your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bars of your yoke, and made you go upright.
• Num 15:41 : 41 I am Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am Jehovah your God.
• 2 Sam 7:2 : 2 that the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains.
• Ezra 3:4 : 4 And they kept the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and [offered] the daily burnt-offerings by number, according to the ordinance, as the duty of every day required;