Hosea 4:8

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their iniquity.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

חַטַּ֥את עַמִּ֖י יֹאכֵ֑לוּ וְאֶל־עֲוֺנָ֖ם יִשְׂא֥וּ נַפְשֽׁוֹ׃

Transliteration

ḥaṭṭaʾt ʿammî yōʾkēlû wə-ʾel-ʿăwōnām yiśʾû napšô

Grammar Details

*ḥaṭṭaʾt*: noun, feminine singular construct - sin-offering of/sin of
*ʿammî*: noun + 1st person singular suffix - my people
*yōʾkēlû*: imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural - they eat/will eat
*wə-ʾel*: conjunction + preposition - and unto/towards
*ʿăwōnām*: noun + 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their iniquity
*yiśʾû*: imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural - they lift up/carry
*napšô*: noun + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his soul/desire/appetite

Word Meanings

*ḥaṭṭaʾt*: sin/sin-offering
*yōʾkēlû*: eat/consume/devour
*ʿăwōn*: iniquity/guilt/punishment for iniquity
*yiśʾû*: lift up/carry/take away/long for
*nepeš*: soul/life/self/desire/appetite

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Referenced Verses

Lev 6:26 : 26 The priest that offereth it for sin shall eat it: in a holy place shall it be eaten, in the court of the tent of meeting.
Mic 3:11 : 11 The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet they lean upon Jehovah, and say, Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? no evil shall come upon us.
Isa 56:11 : 11 Yea, the dogs are greedy, they can never have enough; and these are shepherds that cannot understand: they have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.
Mal 1:10 : 10 Oh that there were one among you that would shut the doors, that ye might not kindle [fire on] mine altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you, saith Jehovah of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand.
Rom 16:18 : 18 For they that are such serve not our Lord {G2424} Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and fair speech they beguile the hearts of the innocent.
Titus 1:11 : 11 whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.
Lev 7:6-7 : 6 Every male among the priests shall eat thereof: it shall be eaten in a holy place: it is most holy. 7 As is the sin-offering, so is the trespass-offering; there is one law for them: the priest that maketh atonement therewith, he shall have it.
1 Sam 2:29 : 29 Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation, and honorest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?
Ps 24:4 : 4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; Who hath not lifted up his soul unto falsehood, And hath not sworn deceitfully.
Ps 25:1 : 1 A Psalm of David. Unto thee, O Jehovah, do I lift up my soul.
Ezek 14:3 : 3 Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be inquired of at all by them?
Ezek 14:7 : 7 For every one of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that separateth himself from me, and taketh his idols into his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet to inquire for himself of me; I Jehovah will answer him by myself:
2 Pet 2:3 : 3 And in covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose sentence now from of old lingereth not, and their destruction slumbereth not.

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