Hosea 11:8

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? how shall I set thee as Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אֵ֞יךְ אֶתֶּנְךָ֣ אֶפְרַ֗יִם אֲמַגֶּנְךָ֙ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אֵ֚יךְ אֶתֶּנְךָ֣ כְאַדְמָ֔ה אֲשִֽׂימְךָ֖ כִּצְבֹאיִ֑ם נֶהְפַּ֤ךְ עָלַי֙ לִבִּ֔י יַ֖חַד נִכְמְר֥וּ נִחוּמָֽי׃

Transliteration

How shall-I-ʾettenkā ʾEfrayim? shall-I-ʾămagenkā Yiśrāʾēl? How shall-I-ʾettenkā like-ʾAdmâ? shall-I-ʾăśîməkā like-Ṣəbōʾyim? Nehpak upon-me libbî yaḥad nikmərû niḥûmāy.

Grammar Details

*ʾêk*: interrogative adverb - how
*ʾettenkā*: verb, qal imperfect 1st person singular with 2nd masculine singular suffix - I will give you/deliver you
*ʾEfrayim*: proper noun - Ephraim
*ʾămagenkā*: verb, piel imperfect 1st person singular with 2nd masculine singular suffix - I will deliver/surrender you
*Yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
*kə-*: preposition prefix - like/as
*ʾAdmâ*: proper noun - Admah
*ʾăśîməkā*: verb, qal imperfect 1st person singular with 2nd masculine singular suffix - I will make you/set you
*Ṣəbōʾyim*: proper noun - Zeboiim
*nehpak*: verb, niphal perfect 3rd person masculine singular - it is turned/overturned
*ʿālay*: preposition with 1st person singular suffix - upon me
*libbî*: noun, masculine singular construct with 1st person singular suffix - my heart
*yaḥad*: adverb - together/all at once
*nikmərû*: verb, niphal perfect 3rd person plural - they grow warm/are kindled
*niḥûmāy*: noun, masculine plural construct with 1st person singular suffix - my compassions

Word Meanings

*ʾettenkā*: give you up/deliver you/hand you over
*ʾămagenkā*: deliver you/surrender you/shield you
*ʾAdmâ*: Admah (city destroyed with Sodom)
*ʾăśîməkā*: make you/set you/place you
*Ṣəbōʾyim*: Zeboiim (city destroyed with Sodom)
*nehpak*: is turned/overturned/changed
*libbî*: my heart/mind/inner self
*nikmərû*: grow warm/are kindled/are stirred
*niḥûmāy*: my compassions/consolations

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Referenced Verses

Deut 29:23 : 23 And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
Gen 14:8 : 8 And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela(the same is Zoar;) and they joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim;
Jer 31:20 : 20 Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD.
Hos 6:4 : 4 O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.
Deut 32:36 : 36 For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.
Matt 23:37 : 37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
Jude 1:7 : 7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
Amos 4:11 : 11 I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
Gen 19:24-25 : 24 Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven; 25 And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
Lam 1:20 : 20 Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.
Lam 3:33 : 33 For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.
Amos 7:3 : 3 The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD.
Amos 7:6 : 6 The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord GOD.
Zeph 2:9 : 9 Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.
Judg 10:16 : 16 And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the LORD: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.
2 Sam 24:16 : 16 And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.
2 Kgs 13:23 : 23 And the LORD was gracious unto them, and had compassion on them, and had respect unto them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither cast he them from his presence as yet.
Ps 106:45 : 45 And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.
Isa 1:9-9 : 9 Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah. 10 Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
Isa 63:15 : 15 Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained?
Jer 3:12 : 12 Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the LORD, and I will not keep anger for ever.
Jer 9:7 : 7 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?
Rev 11:8 : 8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
Rev 18:18 : 18 And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city!
Luke 19:41-42 : 41 And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, 42 Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.
2 Pet 2:6 : 6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;

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