Hosea 8:12

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אֶ֨כְתָּב־ל֔וֹ רֻבֵּ֖י תּֽוֹרָתִ֑י כְּמוֹ־זָ֖ר נֶחְשָֽׁבוּ׃

Transliteration

ʾeḵtāḇ-to him rubbê tôrāṯî; like-zār neḥšāḇû.

Grammar Details

• *ʾeḵtāḇ*: verb, qal imperfect, 1st person singular - I write
• *rubbê*: noun, masculine, plural construct - multitude of
• *tôrāṯî*: noun, feminine, singular with 1st person singular suffix - my law/instruction
• *zār*: adjective, masculine, singular absolute - strange/foreign
• *neḥšāḇû*: verb, nifal perfect, 3rd person plural - they are regarded

Word Meanings

• *ʾeḵtāḇ*: I write/inscribe/wrote [variant reading: if I wrote]
• *rubbê*: multitude of/many/ten thousand
• *tôrāṯî*: my law/my instruction/my teaching
• *zār*: strange/foreign/alien thing
• *neḥšāḇû*: they are regarded/considered/reckoned

Referenced Verses

• Hos 4:6 : 6 My 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.
• Rom 3:1 : 1 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?
• Rom 7:12 : 12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
• Deut 4:6-8 : 6 Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people. 7 For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for? 8 And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?
• 2 Kgs 17:15-16 : 15 And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them. 16 And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
• Neh 9:13-14 : 13 Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments: 14 And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant:
• Neh 9:26 : 26 Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.
• Ps 50:17 : 17 Seeing thou hatest{H8804)} instruction, and castest{H8686)} my words behind thee.
• Ps 119:18 : 18 Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.
• Ps 147:19-20 : 19 He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel. 20 He hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the LORD.
• Prov 22:20 : 20 Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge,
• Isa 30:9 : 9 That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:
• Jer 6:16-17 : 16 Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein. 17 Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.
• Ezek 20:11 : 11 And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them.