What Does Hosea 8:7 Mean?

(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed

“the wind”

wind; by resemblance breath, i.e., a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the

“For they have sown”

to sow; figuratively, to disseminate, plant, fructify

“the whirlwind”

a hurricane

“and they shall reap”

to dock off, i.e., curtail (transitive or intransitive, literal or figurative); especially to harvest (grass or grain)

“it hath no stalk”

something that rises, i.e., a stalk of grain

a nonentity; generally used as a negative particle

“the bud”

a sprout (usually concrete), literal or figurative

properly, failure, i.e., nothing or destruction; usually (with preposition) without, not yet, because not, as long as, etc

“shall yield”

to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application

“no meal”

flour

“if”

if not; hence perhaps

“shall yield”

to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application

“the strangers”

to turn aside (especially for lodging); hence to be a foreigner, strange, profane; specifically (active participle) to commit adultery

“shall swallow it up”

to make away with (specifically by swallowing); generally, to destroy