I will notלֹאcallאֶפְקוֹדyour daughtersבְּנוֹתֵיכֶםto accountעַלwhenכִּיthey prostitute themselves,תִזְנֶינָהorוְyour daughters-in-lawעַל כַּלּוֹתֵיכֶםwhenכִּיthey commit adultery;תְנָאַפְנָהforכִּיthey themselvesהֵםgo asideיְפָרֵדוּwith prostitutesעִם הַזֹּנוֹתand sacrificeיְזַבֵּחוּwith sacred prostitutes;וְעִם הַקְּדֵשׁוֹתand a peopleוְעָםthat does notלֹאunderstandיָבִיןwill come to ruin.יִלָּבֵט
Hosea 4:14
Study it in the app“I will not call your daughters to account when they prostitute themselves, or your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery; for they themselves go aside with prostitutes and sacrifice with sacred prostitutes; and a people that does not understand will come to ruin.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Hosea 4:14, word by word
- callאֶפְקוֹדefkod
punish
To call to account, punish.
Where else “efkod” appears- your daughtersבְּנוֹתֵיbenote
daughter
A girl or woman born of her parents, who belongs to her father's house.
Where else “benote” appears- they prostitute themselvesתִזְנֶינָהtiznena
prostitute oneself
To give one's body to others outside marriage, often for pay; the woman who does so.
Where else “tiznena” appears- your daughters-in-lawכַּלּוֹתֵיkalote
daughter-in-law
The son's wife.
Where else “kalote” appears- they commit adulteryתְנָאַפְנָהtenaafna
commit adultery
To sleep with another's spouse.
Where else “tenaafna” appears- go asideיְפָרֵדוּyefaredu
separate
To go one's own way, like Abram and Lot.
Where else “yefaredu” appears- and sacrificeיְזַבֵּחוּyezabechu
sacrifice
To kill an animal as a gift to God or other gods.
Where else “yezabechu” appears- with sacred prostitutesקְּדֵשׁוֹתkedeshot
consecrated woman
"Consecrated woman": a woman tied to a pagan shrine who prostituted herself as part of that worship. The law of Israel forbids it (Deuteronomy 23:17).
Where else “kedeshot” appears- and a peopleעָםam
crowd
The people gathered in a place: the crowd, or the troops that go out to war.
Where else “am” appears- understandיָבִיןyavin
understand
To understand, realize.
Where else “yavin” appears- will come to ruinיִלָּבֵטyilavet
fall, be thrown down
To fall, to be thrown down; to come to ruin.
Where else “yilavet” appears
The context
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.
14 · This verse (above)
15Though you, Israel, prostitute yourself, let not Judah become guilty; and do not come to Gilgal, and do not go up to Beth-aven, and do not swear, “As YHWH lives.”