Study it in the app“My people consult their piece of wood, and their staff answers them; for a spirit of prostitutions has led them astray, and they have prostituted themselves away from their Elohim.”
My peopleעַמִּיconsultיִשְׁאָלtheir piece of wood,בְּעֵצוֹand their staffוּמַקְלוֹanswersיַגִּידthem;לוֹforכִּיa spiritרוּחַof prostitutionsזְנוּנִיםhas led them astray,הִתְעָהand they have prostituted themselvesוַיִּזְנוּaway fromמִתַּחַתtheir Elohim.אֱלֹהֵיהֶם
Ammi
Israel, YHWH's people: "my people".
Where else “ami” appearsinquire
To ask YHWH what to do.
Where else “yishal” appearswood
What is taken from a cut tree: firewood, board, rod or timber.
Where else “ets” appearsrod
A thin stick or cut branch, used to mark, touch or consult.
Where else “makl” appearstell
To tell someone something he does not know or has not seen.
Where else “yagid” appearsspirit
What moves a person inside: their life, their mood.
Where else “ruach” appearsprostitution
Prostitution; figuratively, unfaithfulness to God.
Where else “zenunim” appearswander, go astray
Wander, go astray, be lost; in the causative form, make wander, lead astray.
Where else “hita” appearsbe unfaithful
To be unfaithful to YHWH by going after other gods.
Where else “yiznu” appearsElohim
The one true God, the Creator; the word is plural but means one.
Where else “elohe” appears11Prostitution, and wine, and new wine take away the heart.
12 · This verse (above)
13On the tops of the mountains they sacrifice, and on the hills they burn incense, under oak and poplar and terebinth, for their shade is good. Therefore your daughters prostitute themselves, and your daughters-in-law commit adultery.
