Hosea 9:11

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אֶפְרַ֕יִם כָּע֖וֹף יִתְעוֹפֵ֣ף כְּבוֹדָ֑ם מִלֵּדָ֥ה וּמִבֶּ֖טֶן וּמֵהֵרָיֽוֹן׃

Transliteration

ʾEprayim like-the-ʿôp yitʿôpēp kebôdām from-lēdāh and-from-beṭen and-from-hērāyôn.

Grammar Details

• *ʾEprayim*: proper noun - 'Ephraim' (northern kingdom)
• *ʿôp*: masculine singular noun - 'bird/fowl'
• *yitʿôpēp*: hithpael imperfect 3rd masculine singular - 'will fly away'
• *kebôdām*: masculine singular noun with 3rd masculine plural suffix - 'their glory'
• *lēdāh*: feminine singular noun - 'birth/childbirth'
• *beṭen*: masculine singular noun - 'womb/belly'
• *hērāyôn*: masculine singular noun - 'conception/pregnancy'

Word Meanings

• *ʿôp*: bird/fowl/flying creature
• *yitʿôpēp*: will fly away/will flutter away/will vanish
• *kebôdām*: their glory/their honor/their abundance
• *lēdāh*: birth/childbirth/delivery
• *beṭen*: womb/belly/pregnancy
• *hērāyôn*: conception/pregnancy

Referenced Verses

• Deut 28:18 : 18 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
• Hos 4:7 : 7 As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame.
• Hos 9:14 : 14 Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
• 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.
• Amos 1:13 : 13 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border:
• Luke 23:29 : 29 For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.
• Deut 28:57 : 57 And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.
• Deut 33:17 : 17 His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.
• Job 18:5 : 5 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
• Job 18:18-19 : 18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world. 19 He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
• Ps 58:8 : 8 As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away{H8799)}: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see{H8804)} the sun.
• Eccl 6:3 : 3 If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
• Gen 41:52 : 52 And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.
• Gen 48:16-20 : 16 The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth. 17 And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head. 18 And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this is the firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head. 19 And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations. 20 And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.
• Gen 49:22 : 22 Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall: