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Giveתֵּןthem,לָהֶםYHWH;יְהוָהwhatמַהwill you give?תִּתֵּןGiveתֵּןthemלָהֶםa miscarryingמַשְׁכִּילwombרֶחֶםand dryצֹמְקִיםbreasts.וְשָׁדַיִם
Hosea 9:14
Study it in the app“Give them, YHWH; what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Hosea 9:14, word by word
- Giveתֵּןten
give
To hand something over to someone: a gift, a payment, a charge or a land.
Where else “ten” appears- YHWHיְהוָהyehva
YHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appears- a miscarryingמַשְׁכִּילmashkil
miscarry
To lose the young before birth, or not to bear fruit.
Where else “mashkil” appears- wombרֶחֶםrechem
womb
The part of a mother's body where the child grows before birth.
Where else “rechem” appears- and dryצֹמְקִיםtsomkim
dry up
To dry up, shrivel.
Where else “tsomkim” appears- breastsשָׁדַיִםshadayim
breasts
Breasts (of a nursing mother).
Where else “shadayim” appears
The context
13Ephraim, as I have seen, was like Tyre, planted in a meadow; but Ephraim is to bring out his children to the killer.
14 · This verse (above)
15All their evil is in Gilgal; for there I came to hate them; because of the evil of their deeds I will drive them out of my house; I will no longer love them; all their princes are rebels.