Hosea 9:12

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Though 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!

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֤י אִם־יְגַדְּלוּ֙ אֶת־בְּנֵיהֶ֔ם וְשִׁכַּלְתִּ֖ים מֵֽאָדָ֑ם כִּֽי־גַם־א֥וֹי לָהֶ֖ם בְּשׂוּרִ֥י מֵהֶֽם׃

Transliteration

Because if-yegaddelû ʾet-benêhem and-wešikkaltîm from-ʾādām; because-also-ʾôy to-them when-sûrî from-them.

Grammar Details

*yegaddelû*: piel imperfect 3rd masculine plural - 'they bring up/rear'
*benêhem*: masculine plural noun with 3rd masculine plural suffix - 'their sons'
*wešikkaltîm*: piel perfect 1st singular with vav consecutive and 3rd masculine plural suffix - 'I will bereave them'
*ʾādām*: masculine singular noun - 'man/mankind'
*ʾôy*: interjection - 'woe!'
*sûrî*: qal infinitive construct with 1st singular suffix - 'my turning away'

Word Meanings

*yegaddelû*: they bring up/they rear/they raise
*wešikkaltîm*: I will bereave them/I will make them childless
*ʾādām*: man/mankind/humanity
*ʾôy*: woe/alas/disaster
*sûrî*: my turning away/my departing/when I depart

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Referenced Verses

Hos 7:13 : 13 Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.
Deut 31:17 : 17 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?
Deut 32:25 : 25 The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.
1 Sam 28:15-16 : 15 And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do. 16 Then said Samuel, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing the LORD is departed from thee, and is become thine enemy?
Hos 9:16 : 16 Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.
Hos 9:5-6 : 5 What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD? 6 For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles.
Hos 9:13 : 13 Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.
Num 26:65 : 65 For the LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
Deut 28:32 : 32 Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no might in thine hand.
Deut 28:41-42 : 41 Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity. 42 All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume.
2 Kgs 17:18 : 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 17:23 : 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.
Job 27:14 : 14 If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
Jer 15:7 : 7 And 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.
Jer 16:3-4 : 3 For 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; 4 They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.
Lam 2:20 : 20 Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
Judg 4:16 : 16 But Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the host, unto Harosheth of the Gentiles: and all the host of Sisera fell upon the edge of the sword; and there was not a man left.
1 Sam 16:14 : 14 But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him.

Similar Verses (AI)

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