Hosea 6

Hosea · Chapter 6

Hosea 6:8

1Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.2After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.3Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.4O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.5Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth.6For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.7But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.8Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.9And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.10I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.11Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.

King James Version (1769)

Other translations

VerseKJVBSBASV
8Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.Gilead is a city of evildoers, tracked with footprints of blood.Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity; it is stained with blood.

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Original Hebrew words

EnglishHebrewSay itStrong'sMeaning
Gileadגִּלְעָ֕דgil-'ADH1568G
Gilead

גִּלְעָד (gil.ad) Gilead = "rocky region" a mountainous region bounded on the west by the Jordan, on the north by Bashan, on the east by the Arabian plateau, and on the south by Moab and Ammon; sometimes called 'Mount Gilead' or the 'land of Gilead' or just 'Gilead'. Divided into north and south Gilead Also named: gil.a.di (גִּלְעָדִי "Gileadite" H1569)

[is] a town ofקִרְיַ֖תkir-YATH7151
town

קִרְיָה (qir.yah) city Aramaic of qir.yah (קִרְיָה "town" H7151)

doers ofפֹּ֣עֲלֵיPO-'a-leiH6466
to work

פָּעַל (pa.al) 1) to do, make 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to do 1a2) to make

wickednessאָ֑וֶן'A-venH0205G
evil: wickedness

אָ֫וֶן (a.ven) 1) trouble, wickedness, sorrow 1a) trouble, sorrow 1b) idolatry 1c) trouble of iniquity, wickedness Also means: a.ven (אָ֫וֶן ": trouble" H0205H)

trackedעֲקֻבָּ֖ה'a-ku-BAHH6121A
insidious

עָקֹב (a.qov) 1) deceitful, sly, insidious 1a) deceitful, sly, insidious, slippery 1b) foot-tracked

from bloodמִדָּֽם׃mi-DAMH1818
blood

דָּם (dam) 1) blood 1a) of wine (fig.)

Words and meanings from STEPBible data (Tyndale House, Cambridge, CC BY 4.0). The capitalized syllable is the stressed one.