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Hosea 5:12
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Hosea 5:12
12Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
12‖Therefore wil I be vnto Ephraim as a moth: and to the house of Iudah as rottennesse.
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Hosea 5:12
The small winged creature called a moth, known in the KJV for consuming or corrupting garments and other perishable things.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A building or dwelling; the people of a household or family; a lineage or family line; as a verb, to shelter, lodge, or provide a dwelling for.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
rottenness
State of being decayed or putrid; cariousness; putrefaction; unsoundness.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study8For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.
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Open the full verse study28And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
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Open the full verse study7But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.
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Open the full verse study9Behold, the Lord God will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.
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Open the full verse study43And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
44Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
45And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
46Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
47And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire:
48Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
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Open the full verse study4A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
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