Hosea 7:4

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

They are all adulterers; they are as an oven heated by the baker; he ceaseth to stir [the fire], from the kneading of the dough, until it be leavened.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כֻּלָּם֙ מְנָ֣אֲפִ֔ים כְּמ֣וֹ תַנּ֔וּר בֹּעֵ֖רָה מֵֽאֹפֶ֑ה יִשְׁבּ֣וֹת מֵעִ֔יר מִלּ֥וּשׁ בָּצֵ֖ק עַד־חֻמְצָתֽוֹ׃

Transliteration

All of them mənāʾăp̄îm like tannûr bōʿērâ from ʾōp̄eh yišbôt from ʿîr millûš bāṣēq until-ḥumṣātô.

Grammar Details

*mənāʾăp̄îm*: piel participle masculine plural - committing adultery/being adulterers
*tannûr*: noun, masculine singular - oven/furnace
*bōʿērâ*: qal participle feminine singular - burning
*ʾōp̄eh*: qal participle masculine singular - baker
*yišbôt*: qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - he ceases/rests
*ʿîr*: verb, hiphil infinitive construct - stirring/rousing
*millûš*: qal infinitive construct with prefix *min* - from kneading
*bāṣēq*: noun, masculine singular - dough
*ḥumṣātô*: noun, feminine singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - its leavening/rising

Word Meanings

*mənāʾăp̄îm*: adulterers/idolaters/unfaithful ones
*tannûr*: oven/furnace
*bōʿērâ*: burning/kindled/heated
*ʾōp̄eh*: baker/one who bakes
*yišbôt*: ceases/stops/rests
*ʿîr*: stirring/rousing/awakening
*millûš*: kneading/mixing dough
*ḥumṣātô*: its leavening/fermenting/rising

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Jer 9:2 : 2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
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.
Hos 4:12 : 12 My people ask counsel at their stock, and their staff declareth unto them; for the spirit of whoredom hath caused them to err, and they have played the harlot, [departing] from under their God.
Hos 7:6-7 : 6 For they have made ready their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire. 7 They are all hot as an oven, and devour their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me.
Jas 4:4 : 4 Ye {G3432} {G2532} adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever {G302} therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God.
Jer 5:7-8 : 7 How can I pardon thee? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the harlots' houses. 8 They were as fed horses roaming at large; every one neighed after his neighbor's wife.

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