Hosea 9:3

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

They shall not dwell in the LORD'S land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לֹ֥א יֵשְׁב֖וּ בְּאֶ֣רֶץ יְהוָ֑ה וְשָׁ֤ב אֶפְרַ֙יִם֙ מִצְרַ֔יִם וּבְאַשּׁ֖וּר טָמֵ֥א יֹאכֵֽלוּ׃

Transliteration

Not yēšbû in-ʾereṣ YHWH and-šāb ʾeprayim miṣrayim and-in-ʾaššûr ṭāmēʾ yōʾkēlû.

Grammar Details

*yēšbû*: qal imperfect 3rd masculine plural - 'they will dwell/remain'
*ʾereṣ*: feminine singular construct - 'land of'
*YHWH*: proper noun - divine name
*šāb*: qal perfect 3rd masculine singular - 'returned/will return'
*ʾeprayim*: proper noun - 'Ephraim' (northern kingdom)
*miṣrayim*: proper noun - 'Egypt'
*ʾaššûr*: proper noun - 'Assyria'
*ṭāmēʾ*: adjective masculine singular - 'unclean/defiled'
*yōʾkēlû*: qal imperfect 3rd masculine plural - 'they will eat'

Word Meanings

*yēšbû*: they will dwell/they will remain/they will inhabit
*ʾereṣ*: land/country/territory
*šāb*: returned/will return/turned back
*ṭāmēʾ*: unclean/defiled/impure food
*yōʾkēlû*: they will eat/they will consume

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Referenced Verses

Ezek 4:13 : 13 And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them.
Hos 8:13 : 13 They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.
Lev 25:23 : 23 The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
Jer 2:7 : 7 And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.
Jer 16:18 : 18 And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things.
Dan 1:8 : 8 But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's meat, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.
Hos 7:11 : 11 Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.
Deut 4:26 : 26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.
Deut 28:63 : 63 And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it.
1 Kgs 9:7 : 7 Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:
2 Kgs 17:6 : 6 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
Isa 11:15-16 : 15 And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod. 16 And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
Lev 18:28 : 28 That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.
Lev 20:22 : 22 Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out.
Deut 28:68 : 68 And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.
Josh 23:15 : 15 Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all good things are come upon you, which the LORD your God promised you; so shall the LORD bring upon you all evil things, until he have destroyed you from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.
Hos 9:6 : 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 11:5 : 5 He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return.
Hos 11:11 : 11 They shall tremble as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assyria: and I will place them in their houses, saith the LORD.
Mic 2:10 : 10 Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.
Acts 10:14 : 14 But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.

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