Hosea 9:8

Bishops' Bible (1568)

The watchman of Ephraim was with my God but the prophete is the snare of a fouler in all his wayes, and an abhomination in the house of his God.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

צֹפֶ֥ה אֶפְרַ֖יִם עִם־אֱלֹהָ֑י נָבִ֞יא פַּ֤ח יָקוֹשׁ֙ עַל־כָּל־דְּרָכָ֔יו מַשְׂטֵמָ֖ה בְּבֵ֥ית אֱלֹהָֽיו׃

Transliteration

Ṣōpeh ʾeprayim with-ʾĕlōhāy; nābîʾ paḥ yāqôš upon-all-derākāyw, maśṭēmāh in-bêt ʾĕlōhāyw.

Grammar Details

• *Ṣōpeh*: qal participle masculine singular - 'watchman/one watching'
• *ʾeprayim*: proper noun - 'Ephraim' (northern kingdom)
• *ʾĕlōhāy*: masculine plural noun with 1st singular suffix - 'my God'
• *nābîʾ*: masculine singular noun - 'prophet'
• *paḥ*: masculine singular construct - 'snare/trap of'
• *yāqôš*: masculine singular noun/adjective - 'fowler/snarer'
• *derākāyw*: feminine plural noun with 3rd masculine singular suffix - 'his ways'
• *maśṭēmāh*: feminine singular noun - 'hostility/persecution'
• *bêt*: masculine singular construct - 'house of'
• *ʾĕlōhāyw*: masculine plural noun with 3rd masculine singular suffix - 'his God'

Word Meanings

• *Ṣōpeh*: watchman/lookout/sentinel
• *paḥ* *yāqôš*: snare of a fowler/bird trap/trap set by a hunter
• *derākāyw*: his ways/his paths/his conduct
• *maśṭēmāh*: hostility/persecution/enmity
• *bêt* *ʾĕlōhāyw*: house of his God/his temple/his sanctuary

Referenced Verses

• Hos 5:1 : 1 O ye priestes heare this, take heede O thou housholde of Israel, geue eare O thou house of the king, for iudgement is against you, because you are become as a snare on Mizphah, and a spread net vpon the mount of Thabor.
• Ezek 3:17 : 17 Thou sonne of man, I haue made thee a watchman vnto the house of Israel: therefore thou shalt heare the worde at my mouth, and geue them warning from me.
• Isa 62:6 : 6 I haue set watchmen vpon thy walles O Hierusalem, which shall neither ceasse day nor night to preache the Lorde: and ye also that remember the Lorde, ye shall not kepe him close,
• Jer 6:14 : 14 And beside that, they heale the hurt of my people with sweete wordes, saying, Peace, peace: when there is no peace at all.
• Jer 6:17 : 17 Moreouer, I wyl set watchmen ouer you, and therefore take heede vnto the voyce of the trumpet: but they say, we wyll not take heede.
• Jer 14:13 : 13 Then aunswered I: O Lorde God, the prophetes say vnto them, Tushe, ye shall neede to feare no sworde, and no hunger shall come vpon you: but the Lorde shall geue you sure rest in this place.
• Jer 31:6 : 6 For the dayes shall come when the watchmen vpon the mount of Ephraim shall crye, Arise, let vs go vp vnto Sion to our Lorde God.
• Lam 2:14 : 14 Thy prophetes haue looke dout vayne and foolish thinges for thee, they haue not shewed thee of thy wickednesse, to kepe thee from captiuitie: but they haue seene out for thee burthens of vanitie and banishment.
• Lam 4:13 : 13 Whiche neuerthelesse is come to passe for the sinne of her prophetes, and for the wickednesse of her priestes, that haue shed innocents blood within her.
• Ezek 33:7 : 7 And thou O sonne at man, I haue made thee a watchman vnto the house of Israel: therefore thou shalt here the worde at my mouth, and thou shalt warne them from me.
• Heb 13:17 : 17 Obey them that haue the ouersight of you, and submit your selues: for they watche for your soules, as they that must geue accomptes, that they may do it with ioy, and not with griefe: for that is vnprofitable for you.
• Mic 7:4 : 4 The best of them is as bryer, and the most righteous of them is sharper then a thorne hedge: the day of thy watchmen, and of thy visitation commeth: then shalbe their confusion.
• John 15:24 : 24 Yf I had not done among them, the workes which none other man dyd, they shoulde haue had no sinne. But nowe haue they both seene, and hated not only me, but also my father,
• 1 Kgs 22:22 : 22 And he sayde: I will go out, and be a false spirite in the mouth of all his prophetes. He sayde, Thou shalt persuade him and preuayle: Go foorth then, & do euen so.
• 1 Kgs 22:28 : 28 And Michea sayde: If thou returne in peace, the Lord hath not spoken by me. And he sayde: Hearken ye people euery one of you.
• 2 Kgs 2:14 : 14 And toke the mantel of Elias that fel from him, and smote the waters, & he said: Where is the Lord God of Elias, & he him selfe? And when he had smitten the waters, they parted this waye and that waye: and Elisa went ouer.
• 2 Kgs 2:21 : 21 And he went vnto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in thyther, and saide, thus saith the Lord: I haue healed these waters, there shall not come hencefoorth either death or barennesse.
• 2 Kgs 3:15-20 : 15 But now bryng me a minstrell. And when the minstrell played, the hand of the Lorde came vpon him: 16 And he sayde, thus saith the Lorde: Make this valley full of ditches: 17 For thus saith the Lorde: Ye shall see neither wynde nor rayne, yet the valley shall be filled with water, that ye maye drinke, both ye, and your beastes, & your cattayle: 18 And this is yet but a small thing in the sight of the Lorde, forasmuch as he wil geue ouer the Moabites also into your handes. 19 And ye shal smite euery strong towne, and euery goodly citie, and shal fell euery pleasaunt tree, and stop euery well of water, and marre euery good platte of ground with stones. 20 And in the morning when the meate offering was offered, beholde, there came water by the way of Edom, and the cuntrey was filled with water.
• 2 Kgs 4:1-7 : 1 And there cryed a certayne woman of the wyues of the sonnes of the prophetes, vnto Elisa, saying: Thy seruaunt my husband is dead, & thou knowest that thy seruaunt did feare the Lorde: And the creditor is come to fet my two sonnes to be his bondmen. 2 Elisa saide vnto her: Tell me what I shall do for thee? What hast thou in thyne house? She saide: Thyne handemayde hath nothing at all in the house, saue a pitcher with oyle. 3 He saide vnto her: Go, and borow vessels for thee of them that are without, euen of all thy neighbours, emptie vessels, and that not a fewe: 4 And when thou art come in, thou shalt shut the doore after thee and after thy sonnes, and powre out into all those vessels: and set asyde that which is full. 5 And so she went from him, and shut the doore after her & after her sonnes: And they brought to her, & she powred out. 6 And it came to passe, that when the vessels were ful, she said vnto her sonne: Bryng me yet a vessel. And he said vnto her: I haue no mo. And ye oyle ceassed. 7 Then she came and tolde the man of God: And he sayde, Go, and sell the oyle, and pay them that thou art in debt vnto: but lyue thou and thy children of the rest.
• 2 Kgs 4:33-37 : 33 He went in therefore, & shut the doore vpon them twayne, & prayed vnto the Lorde, 34 And went vp, and laye vpon the lad, and put his mouth on his mouth, & his eyes vpon his eyes, & his handes vpon his handes, & when he so laye vpon the childe, the fleshe of the childe waxed warme. 35 And he went againe, and walked once vp and downe in the house, & then went vp, & layde him selfe vpon him againe: And then the childe gasped seue times, and opened his eyes. 36 And he called Gehezi, and saide: Call for this Sunamite. So he called her: which when she was come in vnto him, he saide vnto her: Take thy sonne. 37 Therfore she went in, and fell at his feete, and bowed her selfe to the ground, and toke vp her sonne, and went out.
• 2 Kgs 4:41 : 41 But he saide: bring meale. And he cast it into the pot, and he saide: Fill for the people, that they may eate. And there was no more harme in the pot.
• 2 Kgs 4:43 : 43 And his minister aunswered: Why shall I set this before an hundred men? He said againe, Geue it vnto the people, that they may eate: For thus saith the Lorde, They shall eate, and there shal be left ouer.
• 2 Kgs 5:14 : 14 Then went he downe, & washed him selfe seuen tymes in Iordane, according to the saying of the man of God, and his fleshe came againe lyke vnto the fleshe of a litle childe, and he was cleansed.
• 2 Kgs 5:27 : 27 The leprosie therefore of Naaman shal cleaue vnto thee, and vnto thy seede for euer. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snowe.
• 2 Kgs 6:17-18 : 17 And Elisa prayed and sayd: Lord I besech thee open his eyes that he may see. And the Lorde opened the eyes of the young man, and he loked: and beholde the mountayne was full of horses, and charets of fire round about Elisa. 18 And when they came downe to him, Elisa prayed vnto the Lord, and sayde: Smyte this people I pray thee with blindnesse. And he smote them with blindnesse, according to the worde of Elisa.
• 2 Kgs 7:2 : 2 Then a certayne lorde (on whose hand the king leaned) aunswered the man of God, and sayde: Beholde, if the Lorde would make windowes in heaue, might this saying come to passe? He sayde: Behold, thou shalt see it with thyne eyes, but shalt not eate therof.
• 2 Kgs 7:19 : 19 Whervnto that lorde aunswered the man of God, and sayde: Yea and if the Lorde made windowes in heauen, might it come to passe? And he sayd: Beholde, thou shalt see it with thyne eyes, and shalt not eate thereof.
• 2 Kgs 13:21 : 21 And it chaunced as some of them were burying a man, and spyed the souldiers, they cast ye man into the sepulchre of Elisa: And when the man was roulled downe, and touched the bones of Elisa, he reuiued, and stoode vpon his feete.
• Song 3:3 : 3 The watchmen also that go about the citie, founde me to whom I sayde Sawe ye not hym whom my soule loueth?
• Rom 3:7 : 7 For yf the trueth of God hath more abounded through my lye, vnto his glory, why am I as yet iudged as a sinner?
• 1 Kgs 17:1 : 1 And Elias ye Thesbite, which was of the inhabiters of Gilead, sayde vnto Ahab: As the Lorde God of Israel lyueth, before whom I stande, there shalbe neither deawe nor rayne these yeres, but according to my worde.
• 1 Kgs 18:1 : 1 After processe of many dayes, the word of the Lord came to Elias in the third yere, saying: Go shewe thy selfe vnto Ahab, and I wyll sende rayne vpon the earth.
• 1 Kgs 18:19 : 19 Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel vnto mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal foure hundred and fiftie, and the prophets of the idols groues foure hundred, which eate at Iezabels table.
• 1 Kgs 18:36-39 : 36 And it fortuned, that when they should offer the euening sacrifice, Elias the prophete came, and sayde: Lorde God of Abraham, Isahac, and of Israel, it shalbe knowen this day that thou art the God in Israel, & that I am thy seruaunt, and that I haue done all these thinges at thy commaundement. 37 Heare me O Lord, heare me, that this people may knowe that thou art the Lorde God, and that thou hast turned their heart againe nowe at the last. 38 And the fire of the Lord fel, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the duste, and licked vp the water that was in the pit. 39 And when all the people sawe it, they fell on their faces, and sayde: The Lord he is God, the Lorde he is God.
• 1 Kgs 22:6 : 6 And then the king of Israel gathered the prophetes together, vpon a foure hundred men, & sayde vnto them: Shall I go against Ramoth in Gilead to battayle, or shall I let it alone? And they sayde, Go vp: for the Lorde shall deliuer it into the handes of the king.
• 1 Kgs 22:11 : 11 And Zedekia the sonne of Chanaana made hornes of iron, and sayde, thus sayth the Lord: With these hornes shalt thou pushe the Syrians, vntill thou haue made an ende of them.