Hosea 8:5

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

זָנַח֙ עֶגְלֵ֣ךְ שֹֽׁמְר֔וֹן חָרָ֥ה אַפִּ֖י בָּ֑ם עַד־מָתַ֕י לֹ֥א יוּכְל֖וּ נִקָּיֹֽן׃

Transliteration

zānaḥ your ʿeḡlēḵ šōmərôn; ḥārāh my ʾappî against them; until when not they yûḵəlû niqqāyōn?

Grammar Details

*zānaḥ*: verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - he has rejected
*ʿeḡlēḵ*: noun, masculine, singular construct with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your calf
*šōmərôn*: proper noun - Samaria
*ḥārāh*: verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - it has burned
*ʾappî*: noun, masculine, singular with 1st person singular suffix - my anger/nose
*yûḵəlû*: verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural - they will be able
*niqqāyōn*: noun, masculine, singular absolute - innocence/cleanness

Word Meanings

*zānaḥ*: rejected/cast off/spurned
*ʿeḡlēḵ*: your calf/your young bull (idol)
*ḥārāh*: burned/kindled/became hot
*ʾappî*: my anger/my nose/my wrath
*yûḵəlû*: they will be able/capable/endure
*niqqāyōn*: innocence/cleanness/freedom from punishment

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Referenced Verses

Hos 10:5 : 5 The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Bethaven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.
Jer 13:27 : 27 I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be?
Hos 8:6 : 6 For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
Acts 7:41 : 41 And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
Deut 32:22 : 22 For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
2 Kgs 17:16-18 : 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. 17 And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. 18 Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.
2 Kgs 17:21-23 : 21 For he rent Israel from the house of David; and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drave Israel from following the LORD, and made them sin a great sin. 22 For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them; 23 Until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day.
Prov 1:22 : 22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
Isa 45:20 : 20 Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.
Jer 4:14 : 14 O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?

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