Hosea 6:10

King James Version:

(The Lord speaking is red text)

I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there [is] the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

Complete Jewish Bible:

In the house of Isra'el I have seen a horrible thing; whoring is found there in Efrayim, Isra'el is defiled.

Berean Standard Bible:

In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing: Ephraim practices prostitution there, and Israel is defiled.

American Standard Version:

In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing: there whoredom is found in Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

KJV with Strong’s Numbers:

I have seen{H7200} an horrible thing{H8186} in the house{H1004} of Israel{H3478}: there is the whoredom{H2184} of Ephraim{H669}, Israel{H3478} is defiled{H2930}.

Cross-References (KJV):

Hosea 5:3

  • I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, [and] Israel is defiled.

Jeremiah 23:14

  • I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.

Jeremiah 5:30

  • A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;

Jeremiah 5:31

  • The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love [to have it] so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?

Hosea 4:11

  • Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.

1 Kings 12:8

  • But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him, [and] which stood before him:

Ezekiel 23:5

  • And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians [her] neighbours,

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Commentary for Hosea 6:10

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Strong's Numbers and Definitions:

Note: H = Hebrew (OT), G = Greek (NT)

  1. Strong's Number: H7200
    There are 1212 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: רָאָה
    Transliteration: râʼâh
    Pronunciation: raw-aw'
    Description: a primitive root; to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative); advise self, appear, approve, behold, [idiom] certainly, consider, discern, (make to) enjoy, have experience, gaze, take heed, [idiom] indeed, [idiom] joyfully, lo, look (on, one another, one on another, one upon another, out, up, upon), mark, meet, [idiom] be near, perceive, present, provide, regard, (have) respect, (fore-, cause to, let) see(-r, -m, one another), shew (self), [idiom] sight of others, (e-) spy, stare, [idiom] surely, [idiom] think, view, visions.
  2. Strong's Number: H8186
    There are 4 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: שַׁעֲרוּרָה
    Transliteration: shaʻărûwrâh
    Pronunciation: shah-ar-oo-raw'
    Description: or שַׁעֲרִירִיָּה; or שַׁעֲרֻרִת; feminine from שָׁעַר in the sense of שָׂעַר; something fearful; horrible thing.
  3. Strong's Number: H1004
    There are 1718 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: בַּיִת
    Transliteration: bayith
    Pronunciation: bah'-yith
    Description: probably from בָּנָה abbreviated; a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.); court, daughter, door, [phrase] dungeon, family, [phrase] forth of, [idiom] great as would contain, hangings, home(born), (winter) house(-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, [phrase] prison, [phrase] steward, [phrase] tablet, temple, web, [phrase] within(-out).
  4. Strong's Number: H3478
    There are 2229 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: יִשְׂרָאֵל
    Transliteration: Yisrâʼêl
    Pronunciation: yis-raw-ale'
    Description: from שָׂרָה and אֵל; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity; Israel.
  5. Strong's Number: H2184
    There are 9 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: זְנוּת
    Transliteration: zᵉnûwth
    Pronunciation: zen-ooth'
    Description: from זָנָה; adultery, i.e. (figuratively) infidelity, idolatry; whoredom.
  6. Strong's Number: H669
    There are 313 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: אֶפְרַיִם
    Transliteration: ʼEphrayim
    Pronunciation: ef-rah'-yim
    Description: dual of masculine form of אֶפְרָת; double fruit; Ephrajim, a son of Joseph; also the tribe descended from him, and its territory; Ephraim, Ephraimites.
  7. Strong's Number: H2930
    There are 142 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: טָמֵא
    Transliteration: ṭâmêʼ
    Pronunciation: taw-may'
    Description: a primitive root; to be foul, especially in a ceremial or moral sense (contaminated); defile (self), pollute (self), be (make, make self, pronounce) unclean, [idiom] utterly.