Hosea 10:4

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

They speak vain words, swearing falsely in making covenants: therefore judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

דִּבְּר֣וּ דְבָרִ֔ים אָל֥וֹת שָׁ֖וְא כָּרֹ֣ת בְּרִ֑ית וּפָרַ֤ח כָּרֹאשׁ֙ מִשְׁפָּ֔ט עַ֖ל תַּלְמֵ֥י שָׂדָֽי׃

Transliteration

They dibbərû dəbārîm, ʾālôt of šāwʾ, kārōt bərît; and pāraḥ like rōʾš mišpāṭ upon talmê śādāy.

Grammar Details

*dibbərû*: verb, Piel, perfect, 3rd person, masculine, plural - they spoke
*dəbārîm*: noun, masculine, plural - words
*ʾālôt*: noun, feminine, plural - oaths/curses
*šāwʾ*: noun, masculine, singular - emptiness/falseness/vanity
*kārōt*: verb, Qal, infinitive construct - to cut
*bərît*: noun, feminine, singular - covenant
*pāraḥ*: verb, Qal, perfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular - sprouts/flourishes
*rōʾš*: noun, masculine, singular - poison/hemlock
*mišpāṭ*: noun, masculine, singular - judgment/justice
*talmê*: noun, masculine, plural construct - furrows
*śādāy*: noun, masculine, singular - field

Word Meanings

*rōʾš*: poison plant/hemlock/gall/bitterness
*pāraḥ*: sprouts/flourishes/blooms
*kārōt*: cutting/making

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Referenced Verses

Amos 5:7 : 7 Ye who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth,
Amos 6:12 : 12 Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? that ye have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood;
Hos 4:2 : 2 There is nought but swearing and breaking faith, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery; they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
2 Kgs 17:3-4 : 3 Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and brought him tribute. 4 And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea; for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison.
Ezek 17:13-19 : 13 and he took of the seed royal, and made a covenant with him; he also brought him under an oath, and took away the mighty of the land; 14 that the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping his covenant it might stand. 15 But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such things? shall he break the covenant, and yet escape? 16 As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, surely in the place where the king dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he brake, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die. 17 Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company help him in the war, when they cast up mounds and build forts, to cut off many persons. 18 For he hath despised the oath by breaking the covenant; and behold, he had given his hand, and yet hath done all these things; he shall not escape. 19 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: As I live, surely mine oath that he hath despised, and my covenant that he hath broken, I will even bring it upon his own head.
Deut 29:18 : 18 lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from Jehovah our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;
Isa 5:7 : 7 For the vineyard of Jehovah of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry.
Isa 59:13-15 : 13 transgressing and denying Jehovah, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. 14 And justice is turned away backward, and righteousness standeth afar off; for truth is fallen in the street, and uprightness cannot enter. 15 Yea, truth is lacking; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey. And Jehovah saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.
Acts 8:23 : 23 For I see that thou art in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity.
Rom 1:31 : 31 without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, {G786} unmerciful:
2 Tim 3:3 : 3 without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,
Heb 12:15 : 15 looking carefully lest [there be] any man that falleth short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble [you], and thereby {G1223} the many be defiled;
Rev 8:10-11 : 10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell from heaven a great star, burning as a torch, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of the waters; 11 and the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became {G1519} wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.
Hos 6:7 : 7 But they like Adam have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.

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