Hosea 12:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And Ephraim said, Now I have got wealth and much property; in all my works no sin may be seen in me.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֶפְרַ֔יִם אַ֣ךְ עָשַׁ֔רְתִּי מָצָ֥אתִי א֖וֹן לִ֑י כָּל־יְגִיעַ֕י לֹ֥א יִמְצְאוּ־לִ֖י עָוֺ֥ן אֲשֶׁר־חֵֽטְא׃

Transliteration

way-yōʾmer ʾeprayim ʾak ʿāšartî māṣāʾtî ʾôn to-me all-yĕgîʿay not yimṣĕʾû-to-me ʿāwōn which-ḥēṭĕʾ

Grammar Details

• *way-yōʾmer*: conjunction + verb, qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular with waw consecutive - and he said
• *ʾeprayim*: proper noun - Ephraim
• *ʾak*: adverb - surely/only
• *ʿāšartî*: verb, qal perfect 1st singular - I have become rich
• *māṣāʾtî*: verb, qal perfect 1st singular - I have found
• *ʾôn*: noun, masculine singular - wealth/strength/power
• *yĕgîʿay*: noun, masculine plural construct with 1st singular suffix - my labors/toils
• *yimṣĕʾû*: verb, qal imperfect 3rd plural - they will find
• *ʿāwōn*: noun, masculine singular - iniquity/guilt/sin
• *ḥēṭĕʾ*: noun, masculine singular - sin/offense

Word Meanings

• *ʿāšartî*: I have become rich/I have gained wealth
• *ʾôn*: wealth/strength/power/ability
• *yĕgîʿay*: my labors/my earnings/my toil
• *ʿāwōn*: iniquity/guilt/sin/wrongdoing
• *ḥēṭĕʾ*: sin/offense/wrongdoing

Referenced Verses

• Lev 23:40-43 : 40 On the first day, take the fruit of fair trees, branches of palm-trees, and branches of thick trees and trees from the riverside, and be glad before the Lord for seven days. 41 And let this feast be kept before the Lord for seven days in the year: it is a rule for ever from generation to generation; in the seventh month let it be kept. 42 For seven days you will be living in tents; all those who are Israelites by birth are to make tents their living-places: 43 So that future generations may keep in mind how I gave the children of Israel tents as their living-places when I took them out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
• Neh 8:15-17 : 15 And that they were to give out an order, and make it public in all their towns and in Jerusalem, saying, Go out to the mountain and get olive branches and branches of field olives and of myrtle, and palm branches and branches of thick trees, to make tents, as it says in the book. 16 And the people went out and got them and made themselves tents, every one on the roof of his house, and in the open spaces and in the open squares of the house of God, and in the wide place of the water-doorway, and the wide place of the doorway of Ephraim. 17 All the people who had been prisoners and had come back, made tents and were living in them: for from the time of Jeshua, the son of Nun, till that day, the children of Israel had not done so. And there was very great joy.
• Hos 13:4 : 4 But I am the Lord your God, from the land of Egypt; you have knowledge of no other God and there is no saviour but me.
• Mic 6:4 : 4 For I took you up out of the land of Egypt and made you free from the prison-house; I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
• Zech 14:16-19 : 16 And it will come about that everyone who is still living, of all those nations who came against Jerusalem, will go up from year to year to give worship to the King, the Lord of armies, and to keep the feast of tents. 17 And it will be that if any one of all the families of the earth does not go up to Jerusalem to give worship to the King, the Lord of armies, on them there will be no rain. 18 And if the family of Egypt does not go up or come there, they will be attacked by the disease which the Lord will send on the nations: 19 This will be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations who do not go up to keep the feast of tents.
• John 7:2 : 2 But the feast of the Jews, the feast of tents, was near.
• Heb 11:9-9 : 9 By faith he was a wanderer in the land of the agreement, as in a strange land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who had a part with him in the same heritage: 10 For he was looking for the strong town, whose builder and maker is God. 11 And by faith Sarah herself had power to give birth, when she was very old, because she had faith in him who gave his word; 12 So that from one man, who was near to death, came children in number as the stars in heaven, or as the sand by the seaside, which may not be numbered. 13 All these came to their end in faith, not having had the heritage; but having seen it with delight far away, they gave witness that they were wanderers and not of the earth.
• Ps 81:10 : 10 I am the Lord your God, who took you up from the land of Egypt: let your mouth be open wide, so that I may give you food.
• Jer 35:7 : 7 And you are to make no houses, or put in seed, or get vine-gardens planted, or have any: but all your days you are to go on living in tents, so that you may have a long life in the land where you are living as in a strange country.
• Gen 25:27 : 27 And the boys came to full growth; and Esau became a man of the open country, an expert bowman; but Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.
• Exod 20:2 : 2 I am the Lord your God who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house.
• Lev 19:36 : 36 Have true scales, true weights and measures for all things: I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt;
• Lev 26:13 : 13 I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt so that you might not be servants to them; by me the cords of your yoke were broken and I made you go upright.
• Num 15:41 : 41 I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt, so that I might be your God: I am the Lord your God.
• 2 Sam 7:2 : 2 The king said to Nathan the prophet, See now, I am living in a house of cedar, but the ark of God is housed inside the curtains of a tent.
• Ezra 3:4 : 4 And they kept the feast of tents, as it is recorded, making the regular burned offerings every day by number, as it is ordered; for every day what was needed.