Hosea 7:5

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

י֣וֹם מַלְכֵּ֔נוּ הֶחֱל֥וּ שָׂרִ֖ים חֲמַ֣ת מִיָּ֑יִן מָשַׁ֥ךְ יָד֖וֹ אֶת־לֹצְצִֽים׃

Transliteration

yôm malkênû heḥĕlû śārîm ḥămat from yāyîn māšaḵ yāḏô with-lōṣəṣîm.

Grammar Details

• *yôm*: noun, masculine singular construct - day of
• *malkênû*: noun, masculine singular + 1st plural suffix - our king
• *heḥĕlû*: hiphil perfect 3rd plural - they made sick/began
• *śārîm*: noun, masculine plural - princes/officials
• *ḥămat*: noun, feminine singular construct - heat/rage of
• *yāyîn*: noun, masculine singular with prefix *min* - from wine
• *māšaḵ*: qal perfect 3rd masculine singular - he stretched/drew out
• *yāḏô*: noun, feminine singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - his hand
• *lōṣəṣîm*: qal participle masculine plural - mockers/scorners

Word Meanings

• *heḥĕlû*: made sick/began/inflamed
• *ḥămat*: heat/rage/wrath/poison
• *māšaḵ*: stretched out/drew/extended
• *lōṣəṣîm*: mockers/scorners/those who scoff

Referenced Verses

• Isa 28:1 : 1 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!
• Isa 28:7-8 : 7 But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment. 8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.
• Dan 5:1-4 : 1 Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. 2 Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein. 3 Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them. 4 They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
• Dan 5:23 : 23 But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:
• Hab 2:15-16 : 15 Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness! 16 Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink thou also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the LORD'S right hand shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing shall be on thy glory.
• Matt 14:6 : 6 But when Herod's birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and pleased Herod.
• Mark 6:21 : 21 And when a convenient day was come, that Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords, high captains, and chief estates of Galilee;
• Eph 5:18 : 18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
• 1 Pet 4:3-4 : 3 For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries: 4 Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:
• Gen 40:20 : 20 And it came to pass the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a feast unto all his servants: and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and of the chief baker among his servants.
• 1 Kgs 13:4 : 4 And it came to pass, when king Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of God, which had cried against the altar in Beth-el, that he put forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him. And his hand, which he put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not pull it in again to him.
• Ps 1:1 : 1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
• Ps 69:12 : 12 They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.
• Prov 13:20 : 20 He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
• Prov 20:1 : 1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
• Prov 23:29-35 : 29 Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? 30 They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine. 31 Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. 32 At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. 33 Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things. 34 Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast. 35 They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
• Isa 5:11-12 : 11 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them! 12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.
• Isa 5:22-23 : 22 Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink: 23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!