Hosea 4:16

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֚י כְּפָרָ֣ה סֹֽרֵרָ֔ה סָרַ֖ר יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל עַתָּה֙ יִרְעֵ֣ם יְהוָ֔ה כְּכֶ֖בֶשׂ בַּמֶּרְחָֽב׃

Transliteration

kî kə-pārâ sōrērâ sārar Yiśrāʾēl ʿattâ yirʿēm YHWH kə-kebeś ba-mmerḥāb

Grammar Details

*kî*: conjunction - for/because
*kə-pārâ*: preposition + noun, feminine singular - like a heifer/cow
*sōrērâ*: participle, feminine singular, qal - stubborn/rebellious
*sārar*: perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - has been stubborn/rebellious
*Yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
*ʿattâ*: adverb - now
*yirʿēm*: imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular + 3rd person masculine plural suffix - he will feed/pasture them
*YHWH*: divine name
*kə-kebeś*: preposition + noun, masculine singular - like a lamb
*ba-mmerḥāb*: preposition + noun with definite article, masculine singular - in the broad/wide place

Word Meanings

*pārâ*: heifer/cow
*sārar*: be stubborn/rebellious/defiant
*rāʿâ*: feed/pasture/tend/shepherd
*kebeś*: lamb/sheep
*merḥāb*: broad/wide place/open space

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Referenced Verses

Lev 26:33 : 33 And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.
1 Sam 15:11 : 11 It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all night.
Isa 5:17 : 17 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
Isa 7:21-25 : 21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep; 22 And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land. 23 And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns. 24 With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns. 25 And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.
Isa 22:18 : 18 He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a large country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord's house.
Jer 3:6 : 6 The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.
Jer 3:8 : 8 And 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.
Jer 3:11 : 11 And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.
Jer 5:6 : 6 Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.
Jer 7:24 : 24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
Jer 8:5 : 5 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
Jer 14:7 : 7 O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.
Hos 11:7 : 7 And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.
Zech 7:11 : 11 But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.

Similar Verses (AI)

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Jer 50:19
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19And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon mount Ephraim and Gilead.
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5And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity; Judah also shall fall with them.
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