Hosea 12:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Even the Lord, the God of armies; the Lord is his name.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַֽיהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֵ֣י הַצְּבָא֑וֹת יְהוָ֖ה זִכְרֽוֹ׃

Transliteration

wa-YHWH ʾĕlōhê ha-ṣĕbāʾôt YHWH zikrô

Grammar Details

• *wa-YHWH*: conjunction + proper noun - and YHWH
• *ʾĕlōhê*: noun, masculine plural construct - God of
• *ha-ṣĕbāʾôt*: definite article + noun, feminine plural - the hosts/armies
• *YHWH*: proper noun - the divine name
• *zikrô*: noun, masculine singular with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his memorial/remembrance

Word Meanings

• *ʾĕlōhê*: God of/deity of
• *ha-ṣĕbāʾôt*: the hosts/the armies/heavenly forces
• *zikrô*: his memorial/his remembrance/his name

Referenced Verses

• Mic 6:8 : 8 He has made clear to you, O man, what is good; and what is desired from you by the Lord; only doing what is right, and loving mercy, and walking without pride before your God.
• Hos 6:1-3 : 1 Come, let us go back to the Lord; for he has given us wounds and he will make us well; he has given blows and he will give help. 2 After two days he will give us life, and on the third day he will make us get up, and we will be living before him. 3 And let us have knowledge, let us go after the knowledge of the Lord; his going out is certain as the dawn, his decisions go out like the light; he will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth.
• Hos 14:1 : 1 Samaria will be made waste, for she has gone against her God: they will be cut down by the sword, their little children will be broken on the rocks, their women who are with child will be cut open.
• Joel 2:13 : 13 Let your hearts be broken, and not your clothing, and come back to the Lord your God: for he is full of grace and pity, slow to be angry and great in mercy, ready to be turned from his purpose of punishment.
• Zech 7:9 : 9 This is what the Lord of armies has said: Let your judging be upright and done in good faith, let every man have mercy and pity for his brother:
• Zech 8:16 : 16 These are the things which you are to do: Let every man say what is true to his neighbour; and let your judging give peace in your towns.
• Acts 2:38 : 38 And Peter said, Let your hearts be changed, every one of you, and have baptism in the name of Jesus Christ, for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will have the Holy Spirit given to you.
• Acts 26:20 : 20 But I went about, first to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, and through all the country of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, preaching a change of heart, so that they, being turned to God, might give, in their works, the fruits of a changed heart.
• Jas 1:27 : 27 The religion which is holy and free from evil in the eyes of our God and Father is this: to take care of children who have no fathers and of widows who are in trouble, and to keep oneself untouched by the world.
• Jas 2:13 : 13 For the man who has had no mercy will be judged without mercy, but mercy takes pride in overcoming judging.
• Amos 5:24 : 24 But let the right go rolling on like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
• Hos 10:12 : 12 Put in the seed of righteousness, get in your grain in mercy, let your unploughed earth be turned up: for it is time to make search for the Lord, till he comes and sends righteousness on you like rain.
• Mic 7:7 : 7 But as for me, I am looking to the Lord; I am waiting for the God of my salvation: the ears of my God will be open to me.
• Hab 2:3 : 3 For the vision is still for the fixed time, and it is moving quickly to the end, and it will not be false: even if it is slow in coming, go on waiting for it; because it will certainly come, it will not be kept back.
• Zeph 3:8 : 8 For this reason, go on waiting for me, says the Lord, till the day when I come up as a witness: for my purpose is to send for the nations and to get the kingdoms together, so that I may let loose on them my passion, even all my burning wrath: for all the earth will be burned up in the fire of my bitter passion.
• Zech 1:3 : 3 And you are to say to them, These are the words of the Lord of armies: Come back to me, says the Lord of armies, and I will come back to you.
• Gen 49:18 : 18 I have been waiting for your salvation, O Lord.
• Ps 27:14 : 14 Let your hope be in the Lord: take heart and be strong; yes, let your hope be in the Lord.
• Ps 37:7 : 7 Take your rest in the Lord, waiting quietly for him; do not be angry because of the man who does well in his evil ways, and gives effect to his bad designs.
• Ps 123:2 : 2 See! as the eyes of servants are turned to the hands of their masters, and the eyes of a servant-girl to her owner, so our eyes are waiting for the Lord our God, till he has mercy on us.
• Ps 130:5-7 : 5 I am waiting for the Lord, my soul is waiting for him, and my hope is in his word. 6 My soul is watching for the Lord more than those who are watching for the morning; yes, more than the watchers for the morning. 7 O Israel, have hope in the Lord; for with the Lord is mercy and full salvation.
• Prov 1:23 : 23 Be turned again by my sharp words: see, I will send the flow of my spirit on you, and make my words clear to you.
• Prov 21:3 : 3 To do what is right and true is more pleasing to the Lord than an offering.
• Isa 1:16 : 16 Be washed, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; let there be an end of sinning;
• Isa 8:17 : 17 And I will be waiting for the Lord, whose face is veiled from the house of Jacob, and I will be looking for him.
• Isa 31:6 : 6 Come back to him who has been so deeply sinned against by the children of Israel.
• Isa 40:31 : 31 But those who are waiting for the Lord will have new strength; they will get wings like eagles: running, they will not be tired, and walking, they will have no weariness.
• Isa 55:6-7 : 6 Make search for the Lord while he is there, make prayer to him while he is near: 7 Let the sinner give up his way, and the evil-doer his purpose: and let him come back to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for there is full forgiveness with him.
• Isa 58:6 : 6 Is not this the holy day for which I have given orders: to let loose those who have wrongly been made prisoners, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the crushed go free, and every yoke be broken?
• Jer 3:14-22 : 14 Come back, O children who are turned away, says the Lord; for I am a husband to you, and I will take you, one from a town and two from a family, and will make you come to Zion; 15 And I will give you keepers, pleasing to my heart, who will give you your food with knowledge and wisdom. 16 And it will come about, when your numbers are increased in the land, in those days, says the Lord, that they will no longer say, The ark of the agreement of the Lord: it will not come into their minds, they will not have any memory of it, or be conscious of the loss of it, and it will not be made again. 17 At that time Jerusalem will be named the seat of the Lord's kingdom; and all the nations will come together to it, to the name of the Lord, to Jerusalem: and no longer will their steps be guided by the purposes of their evil hearts. 18 In those days the family of Judah will go with the family of Israel, and they will come together out of the land of the north into the land which I gave for a heritage to your fathers. 19 But I said, How am I to put you among the children, and give you a desired land, a heritage of glory among the armies of the nations? and I said, You are to say to me, My father; and not be turned away from me. 20 Truly, as a wife is false to her husband, so have you been false to me, O Israel, says the Lord. 21 A voice is sounding on the open hilltops, the weeping and the prayers of the children of Israel; because their way is twisted, they have not kept the Lord their God in mind. 22 Come back, you children who have been turned away, and I will take away your desire for wandering. See, we have come to you, for you are the Lord our God.
• Jer 22:15 : 15 Are you to be a king because you make more use of cedar than your father? did not your father take food and drink and do right, judging in righteousness, and then it was well for him?
• Lam 3:25-26 : 25 The Lord is good to those who are waiting for him, to the soul which is looking for him. 26 It is good to go on hoping and quietly waiting for the salvation of the Lord.
• Lam 3:39-41 : 39 What protest may a living man make, even a man about the punishment of his sin? 40 Let us make search and put our ways to the test, turning again to the Lord; 41 Lifting up our hearts with our hands to God in the heavens.
• Hos 4:1 : 1 Give ear to the word of the Lord, O children of Israel; for the Lord has a cause against the people of this land, because there is no good faith in it, and no mercy and no knowledge of God in the land.
• Isa 30:18 : 18 For this cause the Lord will be waiting, so that he may be kind to you; and he will be lifted up, so that he may have mercy on you; for the Lord is a God of righteousness: there is a blessing on all whose hope is in him.