Verse 3

I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me: for now, O Ephraim, you commit whoredom, and Israel is defiled.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Jeg kjenner Efraim, og Israel er åpenbart for meg. Nå har Efraim vært troløs, og Israel er blitt uren.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Jeg kjenner Efraim, og Israel er ikke skjult for meg; nå, Efraim, har du drevet hor, og Israel er blitt besmittet.

• Norsk King James

  Jeg kjenner Efraim, og Israel er ikke skjult for meg; for nå, Efraim, er du utro, og Israel er besmittet.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Jeg kjenner Efraim, og Israel er ikke skjult for meg. Efraim har drevet hor, og Israel er blitt uren.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Jeg kjenner Efraim, og Israel er ikke skjult for meg. For nå har Efraim drevet hor, og Israel er blitt urent.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Jeg kjenner Efraim, og Israel er ikke skjult for meg: For nå, Efraim, driver du hor, og Israel er blitt uren.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Jeg kjenner Efraim, og Israel er ikke skjult for meg; for nå, Efraim, begår du horeri, og Israel er besmittet.

• En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

  Jeg kjenner Efraim, og Israel er ikke skjult for meg: For nå, Efraim, driver du hor, og Israel er blitt uren.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Jeg kjenner Efraim, og Israel er ikke skjult for meg; for nå har Efraim drevet hor, Israel har blitt uren.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; for now, Ephraim, you have played the harlot; Israel is defiled.

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Jeg kjenner Efraim, og Israel er ikke skjult for meg. For nå har du, Efraim, drevet hor, og Israel er blitt urent.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Jeg, jeg kjender Ephraim, og Israel er ikke skjult for mig, at Ephraim haver nu bedrevet Horeri, (og) Israel er besmittet.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, tu committest wredom, and Israel is defiled.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Jeg kjenner Efraim, og Israel er ikke skjult for meg. For nå, Efraim, har du drevet hor, og Israel er blitt besmittet.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Jeg kjenner Efraim, Og Israel er ikke skjult for meg; For nå, Efraim, har du vært en hore. Israel er gjort uren.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Jeg kjenner Efraim, og Israel er ikke skjult for meg, for nå har du drevet hor, Efraim, Israel er blitt uren.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Jeg kjenner Efraim, og Israel er ikke skjult for meg; for nå, Efraim, har du oppført deg som en skjøge, Israel er gjort uren.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Jeg kjenner Efraim, og Israel er ikke skjult for meg; for nå, Efraim, har du vært falsk mot meg, Israel har blitt uren.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  I knowe Ephraim well ynough, & Israel is not hyd fro me: for Ephraim is become an harlot, and Israel is defyled.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  I knowe Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for nowe, O Ephraim thou art become an harlot, and Israel is defiled.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  I knowe Ephraim well inough, and Israel is not hid fro me: for nowe O Ephraim thou art become an harlot, and Israel is defiled.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, [and] Israel is defiled.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  I know Ephraim, And Israel is not hidden from me; For now, Ephraim, you have played the prostitute. Israel is defiled.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  I have known Ephraim, And Israel hath not been hid from me, For now thou hast gone a-whoring, Ephraim, Defiled is Israel.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me; for now, O Ephraim, thou hast played the harlot, Israel is defiled.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  I have knowledge of Ephraim, and Israel is not secret from me; for now, O Ephraim, you have been false to me, Israel has become unclean.

• World English Bible (2000)

  I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; for now, Ephraim, you have played the prostitute. Israel is defiled.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  I know Ephraim all too well; the evil of Israel is not hidden from me. For you have engaged in prostitution, O Ephraim; Israel has defiled itself.

Referenced Verses

• Amos 3:2 : 2 You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
• Amos 5:12 : 12 For I know your many transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
• Heb 4:13 : 13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight; but all things are naked and open unto the eyes of him to whom we must give account.
• Rev 3:15 : 15 I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot: I wish you were cold or hot.
• Gen 48:19-20 : 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 descendants shall become a multitude of nations. 20 And he blessed them that day, saying, In you shall Israel bless, saying, God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.
• Deut 33:17 : 17 His glory is like the firstborn of his bull, 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.
• 1 Kgs 12:26-33 : 26 And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now the kingdom shall return to the house of David. 27 If this people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, then the heart of this people shall turn again to their lord, even to Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me, and return to Rehoboam king of Judah. 28 Therefore the king took counsel and made two calves of gold, and said to them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem; behold your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. 29 And he set one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan. 30 And this thing became a sin, for the people went to worship before one, even as far as Dan. 31 And he made a house of high places and made priests from all sorts of people, who were not of the sons of Levi. 32 And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made, and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made. 33 So he offered upon the altar that he had made in Bethel the fifteenth day of the eighth month, in the month which he had devised in his own heart; and he ordained a feast for the children of Israel, and offered upon the altar, and burnt incense.
• 1 Kgs 14:14-16 : 14 Moreover the LORD shall raise up a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day: but what? even now. 15 For the LORD shall strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall uproot Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger. 16 And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who sinned, and who made Israel to sin.
• Isa 7:5 : 5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah have devised evil against you, saying,
• Isa 7:8-9 : 8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within sixty-five years Ephraim shall be broken, that it will not be a people. 9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If you will not believe, surely you shall not be established.
• Isa 7:17 : 17 The LORD shall bring upon you, and upon your people, and upon your father's house, days that have not come since the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.
• Ezek 23:5-9 : 5 And Aholah played the harlot while she was mine; and she lusted after her lovers, after the Assyrians her neighbors, 6 Who were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses. 7 Thus she committed her harlotries with them, with all the choice men of Assyria, and with all on whom she lusted: with all their idols she defiled herself. 8 She did not leave her harlotries brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their harlotry upon her. 9 Therefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she lusted. 10 They uncovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her daughters, and killed her with the sword: and she became notorious among women; for they had executed judgment upon her. 11 And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her lust than she, and in her harlotries more than her sister in her harlotries. 12 She lusted upon the Assyrians her neighbors, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men. 13 Then I saw that she was defiled, that they both followed the same way, 14 And that she increased her harlotries: for when she saw men portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion, 15 Girded with sashes upon their loins, excellently attired upon their heads, all of them looking like princes, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity: 16 And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she lusted upon them, and sent messengers to them into Chaldea. 17 And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their harlotry, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them. 18 So she uncovered her harlotries, and uncovered her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, just as my mind was alienated from her sister. 19 Yet she multiplied her harlotries, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, when she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt. 20 For she lusted after their lovers, whose flesh is like the flesh of donkeys, and whose issue is like the issue of horses. 21 Thus you called to remembrance the lewdness of your youth, in bruising your breasts by the Egyptians for the pleasures of your youth.
• Hos 4:17-18 : 17 Ephraim is joined to idols; leave him alone. 18 Their drink is sour; they have committed harlotry continually; her rulers dearly love dishonor.
• Hos 5:9 : 9 Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.
• Hos 5:11 : 11 Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly followed the commandment.
• Hos 5:13 : 13 When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then Ephraim went to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet he could not heal you, nor cure you of your wound.
• Hos 6:4 : 4 O Ephraim, what shall I do to you? O Judah, what shall I do to you? for your goodness is like a morning cloud, and as the early dew it vanishes.
• Hos 8:11 : 11 Because Ephraim has made many altars to sin, altars shall be to him for sin.
• Hos 12:1 : 1 Ephraim feeds on the wind, and pursues the east wind; he daily increases lies and desolation, and they make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.
• Hos 13:1 : 1 When Ephraim spoke trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died.