Hosea 12:11

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Is Gilead iniquity? they are altogether false; in Gilgal they sacrifice bullocks; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the field.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְדִבַּ֙רְתִּי֙ עַל־הַנְּבִיאִ֔ים וְאָנֹכִ֖י חָז֣וֹן הִרְבֵּ֑יתִי וּבְיַ֥ד הַנְּבִיאִ֖ים אֲדַמֶּֽה׃

Transliteration

wĕ-dibbarti to-ha-nĕbîʾîm wĕ-ʾānōkî ḥāzôn hirbêtî û-bĕyad ha-nĕbîʾîm ʾădammeh

Grammar Details

*wĕ-dibbarti*: conjunction + verb, piel perfect 1st singular - and I spoke
*ha-nĕbîʾîm*: definite article + noun, masculine plural - the prophets
*wĕ-ʾānōkî*: conjunction + pronoun, 1st singular - and I
*ḥāzôn*: noun, masculine singular - vision
*hirbêtî*: verb, hiphil perfect 1st singular - I multiplied/increased
*û-bĕyad*: conjunction + preposition + noun, feminine singular construct - and by the hand of
*ʾădammeh*: verb, piel imperfect 1st singular - I use parables/comparisons

Word Meanings

*dibbarti*: I spoke/I communicated
*ḥāzôn*: vision/revelation/oracle
*hirbêtî*: I multiplied/I increased/I gave abundantly
*ʾădammeh*: I use parables/I speak with similes/I compare

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Referenced Verses

Hos 4:15 : 15 Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Beth-aven, nor swear, As Jehovah liveth.
Hos 6:8 : 8 Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity; it is stained with blood.
Hos 8:11 : 11 Because Ephraim hath multiplied altars for sinning, altars have been unto him for sinning.
Hos 9:15 : 15 All their wickedness is in Gilgal; for there I hated them: because of the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of my house; I will love them no more; all their princes are revolters.
Hos 10:1 : 1 Israel is a luxuriant vine, that putteth forth his fruit: according to the abundance of his fruit he hath multiplied his altars; according to the goodness of their land they have made goodly [ pillars.]
Amos 4:4 : 4 Come to Beth-el, and transgress; to Gilgal, [and] multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, [and] your tithes every three days;
Amos 5:5 : 5 but seek not Beth-el, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Beth-el shall come to nought.
Jonah 2:8 : 8 They that regard lying vanities Forsake their own mercy.
1 Kgs 17:1 : 1 And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the sojourners of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As Jehovah, the God of Israel, liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.
2 Kgs 17:9-9 : 9 And the children of Israel did secretly things that were not right against Jehovah their God: and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city; 10 and they set them up pillars and Asherim upon every high hill, and under every green tree; 11 and there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the nations whom Jehovah carried away before them; and they wrought wicked things to provoke Jehovah to anger;
Jer 2:20 : 20 For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bonds; and thou saidst, I will not serve; for upon every high hill and under every green tree thou didst bow thyself, playing the harlot.
Jer 2:28 : 28 But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah.
Jer 10:8 : 8 But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.
Jer 10:15 : 15 They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

Similar Verses (AI)

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Hos 6:7-8
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7But they like Adam have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
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Hos 9:15
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15All their wickedness is in Gilgal; for there I hated them: because of the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of my house; I will love them no more; all their princes are revolters.
Hos 10:8-9
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8The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.
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Isa 27:9
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9Therefore by this shall the iniquity of Jacob be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, [so that] the Asherim and the sun-images shall rise no more.
Hos 8:11
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11Because Ephraim hath multiplied altars for sinning, altars have been unto him for sinning.
Amos 4:4
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4Come to Beth-el, and transgress; to Gilgal, [and] multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, [and] your tithes every three days;
Hos 10:1-2
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1Israel is a luxuriant vine, that putteth forth his fruit: according to the abundance of his fruit he hath multiplied his altars; according to the goodness of their land they have made goodly [ pillars.]
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Amos 6:12
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4They speak vain words, swearing falsely in making covenants: therefore judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.
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Jer 11:13
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13For according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up altars to the shameful thing, even altars to burn incense unto Baal.
Isa 1:11
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Hos 9:9
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9They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.
Amos 5:5
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5but seek not Beth-el, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Beth-el shall come to nought.
Jer 2:5
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10and they set them up pillars and Asherim upon every high hill, and under every green tree;
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Hos 12:10
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Jer 17:2
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2whilst their children remember their altars and their Asherim by the green trees upon the high hills.
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1 Sam 15:21
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Hos 14:1
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Judg 6:28
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