King James Version
Hosea 6:10 in the King James Version says “I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.” — study this verse from Hosea chapter 6 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.”
Hosea 6:10 · KJV
Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood. polluted: or, cunning for
And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent : for they commit lewdness. by: Heb. with one shoulder, or, to Shechem lewdness: or, enormity
I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“in the house”
H1004a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
“Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
“I have seen”
H7200to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
“of Ephraim”
H669ephrajim, a son of joseph; also the tribe descended from him, and its territory
“Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
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