King James Version
Hosea 9:12 in the King James Version says “Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them ...” — study this verse from Hosea chapter 9 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!”
Hosea 9:12 · KJV
I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.
As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.
Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!
Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.
Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. miscarrying: Heb. that casteth the fruit
KJV Study — Public Domain
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
used very widely as demonstrative, lo!; interrogative, whether?; or conditional, if, although; also oh that!, when; hence, as a negative, not
“Though they bring up”
H1431to be (causatively make) large (in various senses, as in body, mind, estate or honor, also in pride)
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“their children”
H1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or
“yet will I bereave”
H7921properly, to miscarry, i.e., suffer abortion; by analogy, to bereave (literally or figuratively)
“them that there shall not be a man”
H120ruddy i.e., a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.)
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and
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