Hosea 9:6

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּֽי־הִנֵּ֤ה הָֽלְכוּ֙ מִשֹּׁ֔ד מִצְרַ֥יִם תְּקַבְּצֵ֖ם מֹ֣ף תְּקַבְּרֵ֑ם מַחְמַ֣ד לְכַסְפָּ֗ם קִמּוֹשׂ֙ יִֽירָשֵׁ֔ם ח֖וֹחַ בְּאָהֳלֵיהֶֽם׃

Transliteration

Because-behold hālekû from-šōd, miṣrayim teqabbeṣēm, mōp teqabberēm; maḥmad for-kaspām qimmôś yîrāšēm, ḥôaḥ in-ʾohŏlêhem.

Grammar Details

*hālekû*: qal perfect 3rd masculine plural - 'they went/have gone'
*šōd*: masculine singular noun - 'destruction/devastation'
*miṣrayim*: proper noun - 'Egypt'
*teqabbeṣēm*: piel imperfect 3rd feminine singular with 3rd masculine plural suffix - 'she will gather them'
*mōp*: proper noun - 'Memphis'
*teqabberēm*: piel imperfect 3rd feminine singular with 3rd masculine plural suffix - 'she will bury them'
*maḥmad*: masculine singular construct - 'desirable things of'
*kaspām*: masculine singular noun with 3rd masculine plural suffix - 'their silver'
*qimmôś*: masculine singular noun - 'nettles/thorns'
*yîrāšēm*: qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular with 3rd masculine plural suffix - 'will possess them'
*ḥôaḥ*: masculine singular noun - 'thorns/thistles'
*ʾohŏlêhem*: masculine plural noun with 3rd masculine plural suffix - 'their tents'

Word Meanings

*hālekû*: they went/they have gone/they departed
*šōd*: destruction/devastation/violence
*teqabbeṣēm*: she will gather them/she will collect them
*teqabberēm*: she will bury them/she will entomb them
*maḥmad*: desirable things/precious things/treasures
*kaspām*: their silver/their money
*qimmôś*: nettles/thorns/weeds
*yîrāšēm*: will possess them/will inherit them/will take possession of them
*ḥôaḥ*: thorns/thistles/briars
*ʾohŏlêhem*: their tents/their dwellings

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Referenced Verses

Hos 10:8 : 8 The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.
Isa 5:6 : 6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
Isa 7:23 : 23 And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns.
Hos 7:16 : 16 They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.
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.
Hos 9:3 : 3 They shall not dwell in the LORD'S land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.
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.
Zech 10:10-11 : 10 I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt, and gather them out of Assyria; and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon; and place shall not be found for them. 11 And he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away.
Deut 28:63-64 : 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. 64 And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.
1 Sam 13:6 : 6 When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait,(for the people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits.
2 Kgs 13:7 : 7 Neither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like the dust by threshing.
Ps 107:34 : 34 A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
Prov 24:31 : 31 And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Isa 11:11 : 11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
Isa 19:13 : 13 The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.
Isa 27:12 : 12 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.
Isa 32:13 : 13 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:
Isa 34:13 : 13 And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.
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.

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