Hosea 4:2
Strong's Lexicon
Cursing
אָלֹ֣ה (’ā·lōh)
Verb - Qal - Infinitive absolute
Strong's Hebrew 422: 1) to swear, curse 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to swear, take an oath (before God) 1a2) to curse 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to put under oath, adjure 1b2) to put under a curse

and lying,
וְכַחֵ֔שׁ (wə·ḵa·ḥêš)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Infinitive absolute
Strong's Hebrew 3584: 1) to deceive, lie, fail, grow lean, be disappointing, be untrue, be insufficient, be found liars, belie, deny, dissemble, deal falsely 1a) (Qal) to become lean 1b) (Niphal) to cringe, feign obedience 1c) (Piel) 1c1) to deceive, deny falsely 1c2) to act deceptively 1c3) to cringe 1c4) to disappoint, fail 1d) (Hithpael) to cringe, feign obedience

murder
וְרָצֹ֥חַ (wə·rā·ṣō·aḥ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Infinitive absolute
Strong's Hebrew 7523: 1) to murder, slay, kill 1a)(Qal) to murder, slay 1a1) premeditated 1a2) accidental 1a3) as avenger 1a4) slayer (intentional) (participle) 1b) (Niphal) to be slain 1c) (Piel) 1c1) to murder, assassinate 1c2) murderer, assassin (participle) (subst) 1d) (Pual) to be killed

and stealing,
וְגָנֹ֖ב (wə·ḡā·nōḇ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Infinitive absolute
Strong's Hebrew 1589: 1) to steal, steal away, carry away 1a) (Qal) to steal 1b) (Niphal) to be stolen 1c) (Piel) to steal away 1d)(Pual) to be stolen away, be brought by stealth 1e) (Hithpael) to go by stealth, steal away

and adultery
וְנָאֹ֑ף (wə·nā·’ōp̄)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Infinitive absolute
Strong's Hebrew 5003: 1) to commit adultery 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to commit adultery 1a1a) usually of man 1a1a1) always with wife of another 1a1b) adultery (of women) (participle) 1a2) idolatrous worship (fig.) 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to commit adultery 1b1a) of man 1b1b) adultery (of women) (participle) 1b2) idolatrous worship (fig.)

are rampant;
פָּרָ֕צוּ (pā·rā·ṣū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 6555: 1) to break through or down or over, burst, breach 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to break or burst out (from womb or enclosure) 1a2) to break through or down, make a breach in 1a3) to break into 1a4) to break open 1a5) to break up, break in pieces 1a6) to break out (violently) upon 1a7) to break over (limits), increase 1a8) to use violence 1a9) to burst open 1a10) to spread, distribute 1b) (Niphal) to be broken through 1c) (Pual) to be broken down 1d) (Hithpael) to break away

one act of bloodshed
וְדָמִ֥ים (wə·ḏā·mîm)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1818: 1) blood 1a) of wine (fig.)

בְּדָמִ֖ים (bə·ḏā·mîm)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1818: 1) blood 1a) of wine (fig.)

follows another.
נָגָֽעוּ׃ (nā·ḡā·‘ū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 5060: 1) to touch, reach, strike 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to touch 1a2) to strike 1a3) to reach, extend to 1a4) to be stricken 1a4a) stricken (participle) 1b) (Niphal) to be stricken, be defeated 1c) (Piel) to strike 1d) (Pual) to be stricken (by disease) 1e) (Hiphil) to cause to touch, reach, approach, arrive 1e1) to cause to touch, apply 1e2) to reach, extend, attain, arrive, come 1e3) to approach (of time) 1e4) to befall (of fate)

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.

Young's Literal Translation
Swearing, and lying, and murdering, And stealing, and committing adultery—have increased, And blood against blood hath touched.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.

New American Standard Bible
[There is] swearing, deception, murder, stealing and adultery. They employ violence, so that bloodshed follows bloodshed.

King James Bible
By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
Parallel Verses
New International Version
There is only cursing, lying and murder, stealing and adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.

New Living Translation
You make vows and break them; you kill and steal and commit adultery. There is violence everywhere--one murder after another.

English Standard Version
there is swearing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.

New American Standard Bible
There is swearing, deception, murder, stealing and adultery. They employ violence, so that bloodshed follows bloodshed.

King James Bible
By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.

International Standard Version
Swearing, lying, murder, theft, and adultery are rampant, and blood mingles with blood.

NET Bible
There is only cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and adultery. They resort to violence and bloodshed.

American Standard Version
There is nought but swearing and breaking faith, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery; they break out, and blood toucheth blood.

English Revised Version
There is nought but swearing and breaking faith, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery; they break out, and blood toucheth blood.

Young's Literal Translation
Swearing, and lying, and murdering, And stealing, and committing adultery -- have increased, And blood against blood hath touched.
















Cross References
Genesis 4:8
And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.

Deuteronomy 5:11
Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain: for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

Deuteronomy 5:18
Neither shalt thou commit adultery.

Deuteronomy 5:19
Neither shalt thou steal.

Isaiah 59:3
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.

Jeremiah 9:2
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

Jeremiah 23:10
For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right.

Jeremiah 51:5
For Israel hath not been forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of the LORD of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.

Ezekiel 7:23
Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

Ezekiel 22:9
In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness.

Hosea 5:2
And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all.
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