Hosea 2:11

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

‫לָכֵ֣ן אָשׁ֔וּב וְלָקַחְתִּ֤י דְגָנִי֙ בְּעִתּ֔וֹ וְתִירוֹשִׁ֖י בְּמֽוֹעֲד֑וֹ וְהִצַּלְתִּי֙ צַמְרִ֣י וּפִשְׁתִּ֔י לְכַסּ֖וֹת אֶת־עֶרְוָתָֽהּ׃‬

Transliteration

Therefore ʾāšûb and lāqaḥtî dəgānî in-ʿittô and tîrôšî in-môʿădô; and hiṣṣaltî ṣamrî and pištî to-cover ʾet-ʿerwātāh.

Grammar Details

*ʾāšûb*: qal imperfect, 1st singular - I will return
*lāqaḥtî*: qal perfect, 1st singular - I will take
*dəgānî*: noun + pronominal suffix, 1st singular - my grain
*ʿittô*: noun + pronominal suffix, 3rd singular, masculine - its time
*tîrôšî*: noun + pronominal suffix, 1st singular - my new wine
*môʿădô*: noun + pronominal suffix, 3rd singular, masculine - its season
*hiṣṣaltî*: hiphil perfect, 1st singular - I will rescue/take away
*ṣamrî*: noun + pronominal suffix, 1st singular - my wool
*pištî*: noun + pronominal suffix, 1st singular - my flax
*ʾet*: direct object marker
*ʿerwātāh*: noun + pronominal suffix, 3rd singular, feminine - her nakedness

Word Meanings

*ʾāšûb*: I will return/turn back/take back
*lāqaḥtî*: I will take/snatch/remove
*dəgānî*: my grain/corn/cereal
*ʿittô*: its time/its proper time/its season
*tîrôšî*: my new wine/my must
*môʿădô*: its appointed time/its season
*hiṣṣaltî*: I will rescue/snatch away/remove
*ṣamrî*: my wool/my fleece
*pištî*: my flax/my linen
*ʿerwātāh*: her nakedness/her shame/her exposed state

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Referenced Verses

Jer 7:34 : 34 Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.
Isa 1:13-14 : 13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. 14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
Amos 5:21 : 21 I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
Jer 16:9 : 9 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.
Amos 8:5 : 5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?
Amos 8:9-9 : 9 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day: 10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
Nah 1:10 : 10 For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
Rev 18:22-23 : 22 And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee; 23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.
1 Kgs 12:32 : 32 And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Bethel, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made.
Jer 25:10 : 10 Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle.
Ezek 26:13 : 13 And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard.
Hos 3:4 : 4 For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim:
Hos 9:1-5 : 1 Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor. 2 The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her. 3 They shall not dwell in the LORD'S land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria. 4 They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD. 5 What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD?
Amos 8:3 : 3 And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.
Isa 24:7-9 : 7 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh. 8 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth. 9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it. 10 The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in. 11 There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.

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