Hosea 9:11
Old Testament • 9 words with Strong's data
"As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception."
Word-by-Word Analysis
אֶפְרַיִם
ʼEphrayim
Ephrajim, a son of Joseph; also the tribe descended from him, and its territory
כָּבוֹד
kâbôwd
properly, weight, but only figuratively in a good sense, splendor or copiousness
עוּף
ʻûwph
to fly; also (by implication of dimness) to faint (from the darkness of swooning)
סוּר
çûwr
to turn off (literal or figurative)
דָּמָה
dâmâh
to compare; by implication, to resemble, liken, consider
נֶפֶל
nephel
something fallen, i.e. an abortion
Key Terms in This Verse
עוּף ʻûwph
to fly; also (by implication of dimness) to faint (from the darkness of swooning)
Study H5774 →אֶפְרַיִם ʼEphrayim
Ephrajim, a son of Joseph; also the tribe descended from him, and its territory
Study H669 →כָּבוֹד kâbôwd
properly, weight, but only figuratively in a good sense, splendor or copiousness
Study H3519 →Cross References
Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame.
The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Bethaven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is d...
Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.
As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherew...
For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.
His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ep...
Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they...
Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is ...
Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:
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