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Hosea 4:12
🇮🇱 BIBLICAL HEBREW

📖 King James Version

My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.

🔤 Interlinear Analysis — Hebrew (BDB)

# Hebrew Transliteration Strong's Morphology Translation Definition
1 עַמִּ/י֙ עָם H5971 HNcmsc/Sp1cs עָם from עָמַם; a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock: folk, men, nation, people.
2 בְּ/עֵצ֣/וֹ עֵץ H6086 HR/Ncmsc/Sp3ms עֵץ from עָצָה; a tree (from its firmness); hence, wood (plural sticks): + carpenter, gallows, helve, + pine, plank, staff, stalk, stick, stock, timber, tree, wood.
3 יִשְׁאָ֔ל שָׁאַל H7592 HVqi3ms שָׁאַל or shael; a primitive root; to inquire; by implication, to request; by extension, to demand: ask (counsel, on), beg, borrow, lay to charge, consult, demand, desire, X earnestly, enquire, + greet, obtain leave, lend, pray, request, require, + salute, X straitly, X surely, wish.
4 וּ/מַקְל֖/וֹ מַקֵּל H4731 HC/Ncmsc/Sp3ms מַקֵּל; or (feminine) maqqlah; from an unused root meaning apparently to germinate; a shoot, i.e. stick (with leaves on, or for walking, striking, guiding, divining): rod, ((hand-))staff.
5 יַגִּ֣יד נָגַד H5046 HVhi3ms נָגַד a primitive root; properly, to front, i.e. stand boldly out opposite; by implication (causatively), to manifest; figuratively, to announce (always by word of mouth to one present); specifically, to expose, predict, explain, praise: bewray, X certainly, certify, declare(-ing), denounce, expound, X fully, messenger, plainly, profess, rehearse, report, shew (forth), speak, X surely, tell, utter.
6 ל֑/וֹ HR/Sp3ms
7 כִּ֣י כִּי H3588 HC כִּי a primitive particle (the full form of the prepositional prefix) indicating causal relations of all kinds, antecedent or consequent; (by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed: and, + (forasmuch, inasmuch, where-)as, assured(-ly), + but, certainly, doubtless, + else, even, + except, for, how, (because, in, so, than) that, + nevertheless, now, rightly, seeing, since, surely, then, therefore, + (al-)though, + till, truly, + until, when, whether, while, whom, yea, yet.
8 ר֤וּחַ ר֫וּחַ H7307 HNcbsc ר֫וּחַ from ר֫וּחַ; wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit, but only of a rational being (including its expression and functions): air, anger, blast, breath, X cool, courage, mind, X quarter, X side, spirit((-ual)), tempest, X vain, ((whirl-))wind(-y).
9 זְנוּנִים֙ זְנוּנִים H2183 HNcmpa זְנוּנִים from זָנָה; adultery; figuratively, idolatry: whoredom.
10 הִתְעָ֔ה תָּעָה H8582 HVhp3ms תָּעָה a primitive root; to vacillate, i.e. reel or stray (literally or figuratively); also causative of both: (cause to) go astray, deceive, dissemble, (cause to, make to) err, pant, seduce, (make to) stagger, (cause to) wander, be out of the way.
11 וַ/יִּזְנ֖וּ זָנָה H2181 HC/Vqw3mp זָנָה a primitive root (highly-fed and therefore wanton); to commit adultery (usually of the female, and less often of simple fornication, rarely of involuntary ravishment); figuratively, to commit idolatry (the Jewish people being regarded as the spouse of Jehovah): (cause to) commit fornication, X continually, X great, (be an, play the) harlot, (cause to be, play the) whore, (commit, fall to) whoredom, (cause to) go a-whoring, whorish.
12 מִ/תַּ֥חַת תָּ֫חַת H8478 HR/R תָּ֫חַת from the same as תּ֫וֹחַ; the bottom (as depressed); only adverbially, below (often with prepositional prefix underneath), in lieu of, etc.: as, beneath, X flat, in(-stead), (same) place (where...is), room, for...sake, stead of, under, X unto, X when...was mine, whereas, (where-)fore, with.
13 אֱלֹהֵי/הֶֽם אֱלֹהִים H430 HNcmpc/Sp3mp אֱלֹהִים plural of אֱל֫וֹהַּ; gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative: angels, X exceeding, God (gods)(-dess, -ly), X (very) great, judges, X mighty.