Hosea 9:16

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הֻכָּ֣ה אֶפְרַ֔יִם שָׁרְשָׁ֥ם יָבֵ֖שׁ פְּרִ֣י *בלי־**בַֽל־יַעֲשׂ֑וּן גַּ֚ם כִּ֣י יֵֽלֵד֔וּן וְהֵמַתִּ֖י מַחֲמַדֵּ֥י בִטְנָֽם׃

Transliteration

Hukkāh ʾeprayim, šoršām yābēš, perî not-yaʿăśûn; even if yēlēdûn, and-hēmattî maḥămaddê biṭnām.

Grammar Details

*Hukkāh*: hofal perfect 3rd masculine singular - 'was smitten/struck'
*ʾeprayim*: proper noun - 'Ephraim' (northern kingdom)
*šoršām*: masculine singular noun with 3rd masculine plural suffix - 'their root'
*yābēš*: qal perfect 3rd masculine singular - 'is dried up'
*perî*: masculine singular noun - 'fruit'
*yaʿăśûn*: qal imperfect 3rd masculine plural with paragogic nun - 'they will yield/produce'
*yēlēdûn*: qal imperfect 3rd masculine plural with paragogic nun - 'they give birth'
*hēmattî*: hifil perfect 1st singular - 'I will kill'
*maḥămaddê*: masculine plural construct - 'desired ones of'
*biṭnām*: masculine singular noun with 3rd masculine plural suffix - 'their womb/body'

Word Meanings

*Hukkāh*: was smitten/was struck/is blighted
*šoršām* *yābēš*: their root is dried up/their root is withered
*perî* *yaʿăśûn*: they will yield fruit/they will produce fruit
*yēlēdûn*: they give birth/they bear children
*hēmattî*: I will kill/I will slay/I will put to death
*maḥămaddê* *biṭnām*: desired ones of their womb/beloved offspring/precious children

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Referenced Verses

Hos 9:11-13 : 11 As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird: there shall be no birth, and none with child, and no conception. 12 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! 13 Ephraim, like as I have seen Tyre, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring out his children to the slayer.
Ezek 24:21 : 21 Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left behind shall fall by the sword.
Hos 5:11 : 11 Ephraim is oppressed, he is crushed in judgment; because he was content to walk after [man's] command.
Hos 8:7 : 7 For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: he hath no standing grain; the blade shall yield no meal; if so be it yield, strangers shall swallow it up.
Job 18:16 : 16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, And above shall his branch be cut off.
Isa 5:24 : 24 Therefore as the tongue of fire devoureth the stubble, and as the dry grass sinketh down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; because they have rejected the law of Jehovah of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Isa 40:24 : 24 Yea, they have not been planted; yea, they have not been sown; yea, their stock hath not taken root in the earth: moreover he bloweth upon them, and they wither, and the whirlwind taketh them away as stubble.
Mal 4:1 : 1 For, behold, the day cometh, it burneth as a furnace; and all the proud, and all that work wickedness, shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith Jehovah of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

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