Hosea 2:4

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

‫רִ֤יבוּ בְאִמְּכֶם֙ רִ֔יבוּ כִּֽי־הִיא֙ לֹ֣א אִשְׁתִּ֔י וְאָנֹכִ֖י לֹ֣א אִישָׁ֑הּ וְתָסֵ֤ר זְנוּנֶ֙יהָ֙ מִפָּנֶ֔יה וְנַאֲפוּפֶ֖יהָ מִבֵּ֥ין שָׁדֶֽיהָ׃‬

Transliteration

rîbû against-ʾimmekem rîbû for-hîʾ not ʾištî and ʾānōkî not ʾîšāh; and let-tāsēr zənûnêhā from-pānêhā and naʾăpûpêhā from-between šādêhā.

Grammar Details

*rîbû*: qal imperative, masculine, plural - contend/plead
*ʾimmekem*: noun + preposition + pronominal suffix, 2nd plural, masculine - your mother
*hîʾ*: independent personal pronoun, 3rd singular, feminine - she
*ʾištî*: noun + pronominal suffix, 1st singular - my wife
*ʾānōkî*: independent personal pronoun, 1st singular - I
*ʾîšāh*: noun + pronominal suffix, 3rd singular, feminine - her husband
*tāsēr*: hiphil jussive, 3rd singular, feminine - let her remove
*zənûnêhā*: noun, plural + pronominal suffix, 3rd singular, feminine - her harlotries
*pānêhā*: noun, plural, construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd singular, feminine - her face
*naʾăpûpêhā*: noun, plural + pronominal suffix, 3rd singular, feminine - her adulteries
*šādêhā*: noun, dual + pronominal suffix, 3rd singular, feminine - her breasts

Word Meanings

*rîbû*: contend/plead/bring charges against
*ʾimmekem*: your mother (collective reference to the nation)
*ʾištî*: my wife/spouse
*ʾîšāh*: her husband/spouse
*tāsēr*: let her remove/put away/turn aside
*zənûnêhā*: her harlotries/prostitutions/sexual immoralities
*pānêhā*: her face/presence/appearance
*naʾăpûpêhā*: her adulteries/acts of unfaithfulness
*šādêhā*: her breasts (symbolic of intimacy)

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Referenced Verses

Jer 13:14 : 14 And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.
Hos 1:2 : 2 The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the LORD.
Hos 1:6 : 6 And she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And God said unto him, Call her name Loruhamah: for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel; but I will utterly take them away.
Ezek 8:18 : 18 Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.
Ezek 9:10 : 10 And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will recompense their way upon their head.
Zech 1:12 : 12 Then the angel of the LORD answered and said, O LORD of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years?
John 8:41 : 41 Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
Rom 9:18 : 18 Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.
Rom 11:22 : 22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
Jas 2:13 : 13 For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.
Jer 16:5 : 5 For thus saith the LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the LORD, even lovingkindness and mercies.
2 Kgs 9:22 : 22 And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?
Isa 27:11 : 11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.
Isa 57:3 : 3 But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.

Similar Verses (AI)

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Hos 2:5-6
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5For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.
6Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
Hos 2:2-3
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2Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;
3Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.
Jer 5:7
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7How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.
Jer 13:14
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14And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.
Hos 2:10
75%
10And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand.
Hos 5:3-4
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3I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled.
4They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD.
Ezek 16:35-36
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35Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD:
36Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didst give unto them;
Ezek 23:8-10
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8Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her.
9Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.
10These discovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her daughters, and slew her with the sword: and she became famous among women; for they had executed judgment upon her.
Hos 1:6-8
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6And she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And God said unto him, Call her name Loruhamah: for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel; but I will utterly take them away.
7But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by the LORD their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.
8Now when she had weaned Loruhamah, she conceived, and bare a son.
Hos 9:12
74%
12Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!
Ezek 23:30
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30I will do these things unto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen, and because thou art polluted with their idols.
Hos 4:14
74%
14I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall.
Ezek 16:38
73%
38And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy.
Hos 4:10
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10For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the LORD.
Rev 2:21-22
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21And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.
22Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.
Nah 3:4
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4Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.
Ps 109:12
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12Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.
Exod 22:24
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24And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
Jer 16:3
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3For thus saith the LORD concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land;
Isa 9:17
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17Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Jer 15:7
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7And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people, since they return not from their ways.
Isa 13:18
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18Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.
Jer 3:8-9
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72%
8And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.
9And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
Ezek 23:37
72%
37That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them.
Nah 3:10
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10Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
Jer 2:30
72%
30In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
Isa 57:3
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3But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.
Ezek 5:9
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9And I will do in thee that which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all thine abominations.
Ezek 16:20-22
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71%
20Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter,
21That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?
22And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.
Hos 4:18
71%
18Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give ye.
Hos 9:14
71%
14Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
Ezek 16:41
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41And they shall burn thine houses with fire, and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women: and I will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou also shalt give no hire any more.
Jer 3:20
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20Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD.
Ezek 23:43
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43Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries, Will they now commit whoredoms with her, and she with them?
Ezek 16:45
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45Thou art thy mother's daughter, that lotheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which lothed their husbands and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
Lam 1:5
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5Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.
Num 14:33
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33And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.
Hos 4:6
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6My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.