King James Version
Hosea 12:4 in the King James Version says “Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and th...” — study this verse from Hosea chapter 12 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spake with us;”
Hosea 12:4 · KJV
The LORD hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him. punish: Heb. visit upon
He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God: had: Heb. was a prince, or, behaved himself princely
Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spake with us;
Even the LORD God of hosts; the LORD is his memorial.
Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.
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“Yea he had power”
H7786properly, to vanquish; by implication, to rule (causatively, crown)
“over the angel”
H4397a messenger; specifically, of god, i.e., an angel (also a prophet, priest or teacher)
“and made supplication”
H2603properly, to bend or stoop in kindness to an inferior; to favor, bestow; causatively to implore (i.e., move to favor by petition)
“unto him he found”
H4672properly, to come forth to, i.e., appear or exist; transitively, to attain, i.e., find or acquire; figuratively, to occur, meet or be present
“and there he spake”
H1696perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
adverb or preposition, with (i.e., in conjunction with), in varied applications; specifically, equally with; often with prepositional prefix (and then
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