Hosea 2:12
Old Testament • 14 words with Strong's data
"And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them."
Word-by-Word Analysis
שָׁחַת
shâchath
to decay, i.e. (causatively) ruin (literally or figuratively)
גֶּפֶן
gephen
a vine (as twining), especially the grape
עֵץ
ʻêts
a tree (from its firmness); hence, wood (plural sticks)
אֲשֶׁר
ʼăsher
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.
אָמַר
ʼâmar
to say (used with great latitude)
אָהַב
ʼâhab
to have affection for (sexually or otherwise)
נָתַן
nâthan
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
עָשָׂה
ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
יַעַר
yaʻar
a copse of bushes; hence, a forest; hence, honey in the comb (as hived in trees)
חַי
chay
alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or livin...
אָכַל
ʼâkal
to eat (literally or figuratively)
Key Terms in This Verse
יַעַר yaʻar
a copse of bushes; hence, a forest; hence, honey in the comb (as hived in trees)
Study H3293 →אֲשֶׁר ʼăsher
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.
Study H834 →חַי chay
alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or living thing), whether literally or figuratively
Study H2416 →שָׁחַת shâchath
to decay, i.e. (causatively) ruin (literally or figuratively)
Study H7843 →Cross References
And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns.
I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.
For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my...
Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?
Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.
Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.
I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them.
Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shal...
Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?
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