Hosea 8:1

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

[Set] the trumpet to thy mouth. As an eagle [he cometh] against the house of Jehovah, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אֶל־חִכְּךָ֣ שֹׁפָ֔ר כַּנֶּ֖שֶׁר עַל־בֵּ֣ית יְהוָ֑ה יַ֚עַן עָבְר֣וּ בְרִיתִ֔י וְעַל־תּוֹרָתִ֖י פָּשָֽׁעוּ׃

Transliteration

To ḥikkəḵā šôp̄ār, like the nešer against bêṯ YHWH; yaʿan they ʿāḇərû my bərîṯî, and against my tôrāṯî they have pāšāʿû.

Grammar Details

• *ḥikkəḵā*: noun, masculine, singular construct with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your palate/mouth
• *šôp̄ār*: noun, masculine, singular absolute - trumpet/ram's horn
• *nešer*: noun, masculine, singular - eagle/vulture
• *bêṯ*: noun, masculine, construct - house of
• *YHWH*: proper noun - the divine name
• *yaʿan*: conjunction - because
• *ʿāḇərû*: verb, qal perfect, 3rd person plural - they transgressed/passed over
• *bərîṯî*: noun, feminine, singular with 1st person singular suffix - my covenant
• *tôrāṯî*: noun, feminine, singular with 1st person singular suffix - my law/instruction
• *pāšāʿû*: verb, qal perfect, 3rd person plural - they rebelled/transgressed

Word Meanings

• *ḥikkəḵā*: your palate/roof of mouth/mouth
• *šôp̄ār*: trumpet/ram's horn/alarm
• *nešer*: eagle/vulture (uncertain which bird of prey)
• *yaʿan*: because/on account of
• *ʿāḇərû*: they transgressed/passed over/violated
• *pāšāʿû*: they rebelled/transgressed/broke faith

Referenced Verses

• Deut 28:49 : 49 Jehovah will bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;
• Hos 6:7 : 7 But they like Adam have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
• Hos 5:8 : 8 Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: sound an alarm at Beth-aven; behind thee, O Benjamin.
• Jer 4:13 : 13 Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots [shall be] as the whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are ruined.
• Hab 1:8 : 8 Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves; and their horsemen press proudly on: yea, their horsemen come from far; they fly as an eagle that hasteth to devour.
• Zeph 1:16 : 16 a day of the trumpet and alarm, against the fortified cities, and against the high battlements.
• Zech 9:14 : 14 And Jehovah shall be seen over them; and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning; and the Lord Jehovah will blow the trumpet, and will go with whirlwinds of the south.
• Zech 11:1 : 1 Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.
• Matt 24:28 : 28 Wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
• 1 Cor 15:52 : 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
• Heb 8:8-9 : 8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, That I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah; 9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers In the day that I took them by the hand to lead them forth out of the land of Egypt; For they continued not in my covenant, And I regarded them not, saith the Lord. 10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel After those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, And on their heart also will I write them: And I will be to them {G1519} a God, And they shall be to me {G1519} a people: 11 And they shall not {G3361} teach every man his fellow-citizen, And every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: For all shall know me, From the least to the greatest of them. 12 For I will be merciful to their iniquities, And their sins will I remember no {G3361} more. 13 In that he saith, A new [covenant] he hath made the first old. But that which is becoming old and waxeth aged is nigh unto vanishing away.
• Jer 6:1 : 1 Flee for safety, ye children of Benjamin, out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and raise up a signal on Beth-haccherem; for evil looketh forth from the north, and a great destruction.
• Jer 31:32 : 32 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was a husband unto them, saith Jehovah.
• Jer 48:40 : 40 For thus saith Jehovah: Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread out his wings against Moab.
• Jer 51:27 : 27 Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz: appoint a marshal against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough canker-worm.
• Ezek 7:14 : 14 They have blown the trumpet, and have made all ready; but none goeth to the battle; for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.
• Ezek 16:59 : 59 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will also deal with thee as thou hast done, who hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant.
• Ezek 33:3-6 : 3 if, when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people; 4 then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning, if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head. 5 He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be upon him; whereas if he had taken warning, he would have delivered his soul. 6 But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned, and the sword come, and take any person from among them; he is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.
• Hos 4:6 : 6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children.
• 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.
• Joel 2:1 : 1 Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain; let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of Jehovah cometh, for it is nigh at hand;
• Joel 2:15 : 15 Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly;
• Amos 3:6 : 6 Shall the trumpet be blown in a city, and the people not be afraid? shall evil befall a city, and Jehovah hath not done it?
• Amos 8:3 : 3 And the songs of the temple shall be wailings in that day, saith the Lord Jehovah: the dead bodies shall be many: in every place shall they cast them forth with silence.
• Amos 9:1 : 1 I saw the Lord standing beside the altar: and he said, Smite the capitals, that the thresholds may shake; and break them in pieces on the head of all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: there shall not one of them flee away, and there shall not one of them escape.
• 2 Kgs 18:27 : 27 But Rabshakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? [hath he] not [sent me] to the men that sit on the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink their own water with you?
• Isa 18:3 : 3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and ye dwellers on the earth, when an ensign is lifted up on the mountains, see ye; and when the trumpet is blown, hear ye.
• Isa 24:5 : 5 The earth also is polluted under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant.
• Isa 58:1 : 1 Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and declare unto my people their transgression, and to the house of Jacob their sins.
• Jer 4:5 : 5 Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry aloud and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the fortified cities.