Hosea 9:12

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, so that not a man shall be left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֤י אִם־יְגַדְּלוּ֙ אֶת־בְּנֵיהֶ֔ם וְשִׁכַּלְתִּ֖ים מֵֽאָדָ֑ם כִּֽי־גַם־א֥וֹי לָהֶ֖ם בְּשׂוּרִ֥י מֵהֶֽם׃

Transliteration

Because if-yegaddelû ʾet-benêhem and-wešikkaltîm from-ʾādām; because-also-ʾôy to-them when-sûrî from-them.

Grammar Details

*yegaddelû*: piel imperfect 3rd masculine plural - 'they bring up/rear'
*benêhem*: masculine plural noun with 3rd masculine plural suffix - 'their sons'
*wešikkaltîm*: piel perfect 1st singular with vav consecutive and 3rd masculine plural suffix - 'I will bereave them'
*ʾādām*: masculine singular noun - 'man/mankind'
*ʾôy*: interjection - 'woe!'
*sûrî*: qal infinitive construct with 1st singular suffix - 'my turning away'

Word Meanings

*yegaddelû*: they bring up/they rear/they raise
*wešikkaltîm*: I will bereave them/I will make them childless
*ʾādām*: man/mankind/humanity
*ʾôy*: woe/alas/disaster
*sûrî*: my turning away/my departing/when I depart

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Referenced Verses

Hos 7:13 : 13 Woe unto them! for they have wandered from me; destruction unto them! for they have trespassed against me: though I would redeem them, yet they have spoken lies against me.
Deut 31:17 : 17 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come upon them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us?
Deut 32:25 : 25 [Without] [shall the sword] [bereave, And in the chambers] [terror;] [It shall destroy] both young man and virgin, The suckling with the man of gray hairs.
1 Sam 28:15-16 : 15 And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do. 16 And Samuel said, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing Jehovah is departed from thee, and is become thine adversary?
Hos 9:16 : 16 Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay the beloved fruit of their womb.
Hos 9:5-6 : 5 What will ye do in the day of solemn assembly, and in the day of the feast of Jehovah? 6 For, lo, they are gone away from destruction; [yet] Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them; their pleasant things of silver, nettles shall possess them; thorns shall be in their tents.
Hos 9:13 : 13 Ephraim, like as I have seen Tyre, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring out his children to the slayer.
Num 26:65 : 65 For Jehovah had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
Deut 28:32 : 32 Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people; and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day: and there shall be nought in the power of thy hand.
Deut 28:41-42 : 41 Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but they shall not be thine; for they shall go into captivity. 42 All thy trees and the fruit of thy ground shall the locust possess.
2 Kgs 17:18 : 18 Therefore Jehovah was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.
2 Kgs 17:23 : 23 until Jehovah removed Israel out of his sight, as he spake by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day.
Job 27:14 : 14 If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword; And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
Jer 15:7 : 7 And I have winnowed them with a fan in the gates of the land; I have bereaved [them] of children, I have destroyed my people; they returned not from their ways.
Jer 16:3-4 : 3 For thus saith Jehovah concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land: 4 They shall die grievous deaths: they shall not be lamented, neither shall they be buried; they shall be as dung upon the face of the ground; and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the heavens, and for the beasts of the earth.
Lam 2:20 : 20 See, O Jehovah, and behold to whom thou hast done thus! Shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
Judg 4:16 : 16 But Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the host, unto Harosheth of the Nations: and all the host of Sisera fell by the edge of the sword; there was not a man left.
1 Sam 16:14 : 14 Now the Spirit of Jehovah departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from Jehovah troubled him.

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