Bible Verse Dictionary
Hosea 4:12 - Err
| Verse | Strongs No. | Hebrew | |
|---|---|---|---|
| My people | H5971 | עַם | 
[Noun Masculine] a people (as a congregated unit); specifically a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively a flock  | 
                            
| ask counsel | H7592 | שָׁאַל | 
[Verb] to inquire; by implication to request; by extension to demand  | 
                            
| at their stocks | H6086 | עֵץ | 
[Noun Masculine] a tree (from its firmness); hence wood (plural sticks)  | 
                            
| and their staff | H4731 | מַקֵּל | 
[Noun Masculine] a {shoot} that {is} stick (with leaves {on} or for {walking} {striking} {guiding} divining)  | 
                            
| declareth | H5046 | נָגַד | 
[Verb] properly to {front} that {is} stand boldly out opposite; by implication ({causatively}) to manifest; figuratively to announce (always by word of mouth to one present); specifically to {expose} predict: {explain} praise  | 
                            
| unto them for | H3588 | כִּי | 
[Conjunction] (by implication) very widely used as a relative conjugation or adverb; often largely modified by other particles annexed  | 
                            
| the spirit | H7307 | רוּחַ | 
[Noun Feminine] wind; by resemblance {breath} that {is} a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively {life} anger: unsubstantiality; by extension a region of the sky; by resemblance {spirit} but only of a rational being (including its expression and functions)  | 
                            
| of whoredoms | H2183 | זָנוּן | 
[Noun Masculine] adultery; figuratively idolatry  | 
                            
| hath caused them to err | H8582 | תָּעָה | 
[Verb] to {vacillate} that {is} reel or stray (literally or figuratively); also causatively of both  | 
                            
| and they have gone a whoring | H2181 | זָנָה | 
[Verb] to commit adultery (usually of the {female} and less often of simple {forniciation} rarely of involuntary ravishment); figuratively to commit idolatry (the Jewish people being regarded as the spouse of Jehovah)  | 
                            
| from under | H4480 | מִן | 
[Preposition] properly a part of; hence ({prepositionally}) from or out of in many senses  | 
                            
| their God | H430 | אֱלֹהִים | 
[Noun Masculine] gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural {thus} especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative  | 
                            
Definitions are taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.