Hosea 8:12
Strong's Lexicon
Though I wrote
(אֶ֨כְתָּב־) (’eḵ·tāḇ-)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 3789: 1) to write, record, enrol 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to write, inscribe, engrave, write in, write on 1a2) to write down, describe in writing 1a3) to register, enrol, record 1a4) to decree 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be written 1b2) to be written down, be recorded, be enrolled 1c) (Piel) to continue writing

for them
ל֔וֹ (lōw)
Preposition | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3789: 1) to write, record, enrol 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to write, inscribe, engrave, write in, write on 1a2) to write down, describe in writing 1a3) to register, enrol, record 1a4) to decree 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be written 1b2) to be written down, be recorded, be enrolled 1c) (Piel) to continue writing

the great things
(רֻבֵּ֖י) (rub·bê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 7239: 1) ten thousand, myriad

of My law,
תּֽוֹרָתִ֑י (tō·w·rā·ṯî)
Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 8451: 1) law, direction, instruction 1a) instruction, direction (human or divine) 1a1) body of prophetic teaching 1a2) instruction in Messianic age 1a3) body of priestly direction or instruction 1a4) body of legal directives 1b) law 1b1) law of the burnt offering 1b2) of special law, codes of law 1c) custom, manner 1d) the Deuteronomic or Mosaic Law

they regarded them
נֶחְשָֽׁבוּ׃ (neḥ·šā·ḇū)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 2803: 1) to think, plan, esteem, calculate, invent, make a judgment, imagine, count 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to think, account 1a2) to plan, devise, mean 1a3) to charge, impute, reckon 1a4) to esteem, value, regard 1a5) to invent 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be accounted, be thought, be esteemed 1b2) to be computed, be reckoned 1b3) to be imputed 1c) (Piel) 1c1) to think upon, consider, be mindful of 1c2) to think to do, devise, plan 1c3) to count, reckon 1d) (Hithpael) to be considered

as
כְּמוֹ־ (kə·mōw-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 3644: adv 1) like, as, the like of which conj 2) when, according as, as it were

something strange.
זָ֖ר (zār)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2114: 1) to be strange, be a stranger 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to become estranged 1a2) strange, another, stranger, foreigner, an enemy (participle) 1a3) loathsome (of breath) (participle) 1a4) strange woman, prostitute, harlot (meton) 1b) (Niphal) to be estranged 1c) (Hophal) to be a stranger, be one alienated

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
Though I wrote for them the great things of My law, they regarded them as something strange.

Young's Literal Translation
I write for him numerous things of My law, As a strange thing they have been reckoned.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Though I were to write out for him ten thousand points of My instruction,they would be regarded as something strange.

New American Standard Bible
Though I wrote for him ten thousand [precepts] of My law, They are regarded as a strange thing.

King James Bible
I have written to him the great things of my law, [but] they were counted as a strange thing.
Parallel Verses
New International Version
I wrote for them the many things of my law, but they regarded them as something foreign.

New Living Translation
Even though I gave them all my laws, they act as if those laws don't apply to them.

English Standard Version
Were I to write for him my laws by the ten thousands, they would be regarded as a strange thing.

New American Standard Bible
Though I wrote for him ten thousand precepts of My law, They are regarded as a strange thing.

King James Bible
I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Though I were to write out for him ten thousand points of My instruction, they would be regarded as something strange.

International Standard Version
I prescribed great things from my Law for them, but they considered them profane.

NET Bible
I spelled out my law for him in great detail, but they regard it as something totally unknown to them!

American Standard Version
I wrote for him the ten thousand things of my law; but they are counted as a strange thing.

English Revised Version
Though I write for him my law in ten thousand precepts, they are counted as a strange thing.

Young's Literal Translation
I write for him numerous things of My law, As a strange thing they have been reckoned.
















Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:6
Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.

Deuteronomy 4:8
And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?

Hosea 4:6
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

Hosea 1:1
The word of the LORD that came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.

Hosea 8:11
Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin.

Hosea 8:10
Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes.

Hosea 8:9
For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.

Hosea 8:13
They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.

Hosea 8:14
For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.

Hosea 9:1
Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.
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