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Threshing floorגֹּרֶןand winepressוָיֶקֶבwill notלֹאfeed them,יִרְעֵםand the new wineוְתִירוֹשׁwill failיְכַחֶשׁher.בָּהּ
Hosea 9:2
Study it in the app“Threshing floor and winepress will not feed them, and the new wine will fail her.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Hosea 9:2, word by word
- Threshing floorגֹּרֶןgoren
threshing floor
Threshing floor: flat ground where grain is threshed; also any open, level place.
Where else “goren” appears- and winepressיֶקֶבyekev
winepress
Winepress: the place where grapes are trodden and the juice is collected.
Where else “yekev” appears- feed themיִרְעֵyire
graze
To tend a flock, or eat grass.
Where else “yire” appears- and the new wineתִירוֹשׁtirosh
new wine
New wine: the juice of freshly trodden grapes.
Where else “tirosh” appears- will failיְכַחֶשׁyechachesh
fail
To yield no fruit, like a harvest that fails.
Where else “yechachesh” appears
The context
1Do not rejoice, Israel, with exultation like the peoples, for you have prostituted yourself away from your Elohim; you have loved a prostitute's wages on all the threshing floors of grain.
2 · This verse (above)
3They will not stay in the land of YHWH, but Ephraim will return to Egypt, and in Assyria they will eat unclean food.