Hosea 7:6

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּֽי־קֵרְב֧וּ כַתַּנּ֛וּר לִבָּ֖ם בְּאָרְבָּ֑ם כָּל־הַלַּ֙יְלָה֙ יָשֵׁ֣ן אֹֽפֵהֶ֔ם בֹּ֕קֶר ה֥וּא בֹעֵ֖ר כְּאֵ֥שׁ לֶהָבָֽה׃

Transliteration

For-qērəḇû like tannûr libbām in ʾorəbbām all-the laylâ yāšēn ʾōp̄ēhem bōqer he bōʿēr like ʾēš lehāḇâ.

Grammar Details

*qērəḇû*: piel perfect 3rd plural - they brought near/approached
*tannûr*: noun, masculine singular with prefix *ka* - like an oven
*libbām*: noun, masculine singular + 3rd masculine plural suffix - their heart
*ʾorəbbām*: noun, masculine singular + 3rd masculine plural suffix with prefix *bə* - in their ambush/lying in wait
*laylâ*: noun, masculine singular with definite article - the night
*yāšēn*: qal participle masculine singular - sleeping
*ʾōp̄ēhem*: qal participle masculine singular + 3rd masculine plural suffix - their baker
*bōqer*: noun, masculine singular - morning
*bōʿēr*: qal participle masculine singular - burning
*ʾēš*: noun, feminine singular - fire
*lehāḇâ*: noun, feminine singular - flame

Word Meanings

*qērəḇû*: brought near/approached/prepared
*ʾorəbbām*: their ambush/lying in wait/plotting
*yāšēn*: sleeping/slumbering
*bōʿēr*: burning/consuming/kindled

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

1 Sam 19:11-15 : 11 And Saul sent messengers unto David's house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal, David's wife, told him, saying, If thou save not thy life to-night, to-morrow thou wilt be slain. 12 So Michal let David down through the window: and he went, and fled, and escaped. 13 And Michal took the teraphim, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats' [hair] at the head thereof, and covered it with the clothes. 14 And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He is sick. 15 And Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him.
2 Sam 13:28-29 : 28 And Absalom commanded his servants, saying, Mark ye now, when Amnon's heart is merry with wine; and when I say unto you, Smite Amnon, then kill him; fear not; have not I commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant. 29 And the servants of Absalom did unto Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king's sons arose, and every man gat him up upon his mule, and fled.
Ps 10:8-9 : 8 He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages; In the secret places doth he murder the innocent; His eyes are privily set against the helpless. 9 He lurketh in secret as a lion in his covert; He lieth in wait to catch the poor: He doth catch the poor, when he draweth him in his net.
Ps 21:9 : 9 Thou wilt make them as a fiery furnace in the time of thine anger: Jehovah will swallow them up in his wrath, And the fire shall devour them.
Prov 4:16 : 16 For they sleep not, except they do evil; And their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
Hos 7:4 : 4 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.
Hos 7:7 : 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.
Mic 2:1 : 1 Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.

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