Hosea 12:9

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

And I that am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast.

📖 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 And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days. 41 And ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days in the year. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations: ye shall cebrate it in the seventh month. 42 Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths: 43 That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
• Neh 8:15-17 : 15 And that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive branches, and pi branches, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written. 16 So the people went forth, and brought them, and made themselves booths, every o upon the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the street of the water gate, and in the street of the gate of Ephraim. 17 And all the congregation of them that were come again out of the captivity made booths, and sat under the booths: for since the days of Jeshua the son of Nun unto that day had not the children of Israel do so. And there was very great gladss.
• Hos 13:4 : 4 Yet I am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt, and tu shalt know no god but me: for there is no saviour beside me.
• Mic 6:4 : 4 For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of servants; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
• Zech 14:16-19 : 16 And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles. 17 And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain. 18 And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith the LORD will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles. 19 This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
• John 7:2 : 2 Now the Jews' feast of tabernacles was at hand.
• Heb 11:9-9 : 9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: 10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God. 11 Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised. 12 Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable. 13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
• Ps 81:10 : 10 I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
• Jer 35:7 : 7 Neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any: but all your days ye shall dwell in tents; that ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers.
• Gen 25:27 : 27 And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.
• Exod 20:2 : 2 I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
• Lev 19:36 : 36 Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.
• Lev 26:13 : 13 I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.
• Num 15:41 : 41 I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the LORD your God.
• 2 Sam 7:2 : 2 That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in an house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains.
• Ezra 3:4 : 4 They kept also the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the custom, as the duty of every day required;