Hosea 8:12

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

I wrote for him the ten thousand things of my law; but they are counted as a strange thing.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אֶ֨כְתָּב־ל֔וֹ רֻבֵּ֖י תּֽוֹרָתִ֑י כְּמוֹ־זָ֖ר נֶחְשָֽׁבוּ׃

Transliteration

ʾeḵtāḇ-to him rubbê tôrāṯî; like-zār neḥšāḇû.

Grammar Details

*ʾeḵtāḇ*: verb, qal imperfect, 1st person singular - I write
*rubbê*: noun, masculine, plural construct - multitude of
*tôrāṯî*: noun, feminine, singular with 1st person singular suffix - my law/instruction
*zār*: adjective, masculine, singular absolute - strange/foreign
*neḥšāḇû*: verb, nifal perfect, 3rd person plural - they are regarded

Word Meanings

*ʾeḵtāḇ*: I write/inscribe/wrote [variant reading: if I wrote]
*rubbê*: multitude of/many/ten thousand
*tôrāṯî*: my law/my instruction/my teaching
*zār*: strange/foreign/alien thing
*neḥšāḇû*: they are regarded/considered/reckoned

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Referenced Verses

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.
Rom 3:1 : 1 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what is the profit of circumcision?
Rom 7:12 : 12 So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.
Deut 4:6-8 : 6 Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, that shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people. 7 For what great nation is there, that hath a god so nigh unto them, as Jehovah our God is whensoever we call upon him? 8 And what great nation is there, that hath statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?
2 Kgs 17:15-16 : 15 And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified unto them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and [went] after the nations that were round about them, concerning whom Jehovah had charged them that they should not do like them. 16 And they forsook all the commandments of Jehovah their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
Neh 9:13-14 : 13 Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments, 14 and madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them commandments, and statutes, and a law, by Moses thy servant,
Neh 9:26 : 26 Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their back, and slew thy prophets that testified against them to turn them again unto thee, and they wrought great provocations.
Ps 50:17 : 17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, And castest my words behind thee?
Ps 119:18 : 18 Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold Wondrous things out of thy law.
Ps 147:19-20 : 19 He showeth his word unto Jacob, His statutes and his ordinances unto Israel. 20 He hath not dealt so with any nation; And as for his ordinances, they have not known them. Praise ye Jehovah.
Prov 22:20 : 20 Have not I written unto thee excellent things Of counsels and knowledge,
Isa 30:9 : 9 For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of Jehovah;
Jer 6:16-17 : 16 Thus saith Jehovah, Stand ye in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way; and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls: but they said, We will not walk [therein]. 17 And I set watchmen over you, [saying], Hearken to the sound of the trumpet; but they said, We will not hearken.
Ezek 20:11 : 11 And I gave them my statutes, and showed them mine ordinances, which if a man do, he shall live in them.

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