Hosea 7:4
They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.
‖‖They are al adulterers, as an ouen heated by the baker: who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, vntill it be leauened.
Original 1611 marginTranslation notes and cross-references are kept distinct.
- ‖Alternative wordingOr, the raiser wil cease.
- ‖Alternative wordingOr, from waking.
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- Jeremiah 9:2Rank 1 from verse 4
2Oh 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.
2Oh that I had in the wildernesse a lodging place of wayfaring men, that I might leaue my people, and goe from them: for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
4Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
4Ye adulterers, and adulteresses, know yee not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoeuer therefore will be a friend of the world, is the enemy of God.
- Jeremiah 5:7–8Rank 3 from verse 4
7¶ How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots’ houses.
8They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour’s wife.
7¶ How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children haue forsaken mee, and sworne by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adulterie, and assembled themselues by troupes in the harlots houses.
8*They were as fed horses in the morning: euery one neighed after his neighbours wife:
- Hosea 4:12Rank 4 from verse 4
12¶ My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.
12¶ My people aske counsel at their stocks, and their staffe declareth vnto them: for the spirit of whordomes hath caused them to erre, and they haue gone a whoring from vnder their God.
- Hosea 7:6–7Rank 6 from verse 4
6For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.
7They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me.
6‖For they haue made ready their heart like an ouen, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night, in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.
7They are all hot as an ouen, and haue deuoured their Iudges; all their Kings are fallen, there is none among them that calleth vnto me.
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Hosea 7:4
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adulterers
Men who commit adultery; persons sexually unfaithful to the marriage covenant.
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Sense 1: An enclosed heated chamber or furnace used chiefly for baking. Sense 2: Used in comparisons for consuming heat.
Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828
Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of heat, meaning to make or become hot.
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A person whose occupation is baking bread or other food.
Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828
Stops, ends, leaves off, or continues no longer.
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Present-participial or verbal-noun form of raise. Sense 1: To rouse; to stir up. Sense 2: To lift or set upright. Sense 3: To exalt. Sense 4: To build or produce. Sense 5: To call forth. Sense 6: To restore to life.
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1. Later than or following in time or order. 2. Behind. 3. In pursuit of.
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Worked and pressed together into a mixed mass or dough.
Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828
A kneaded mixture of flour or meal and liquid before it is baked.
Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828
Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of leaven, meaning to make rise or ferment by leaven; to work through and affect the whole mass.
Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828
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3They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
3They make the king glad with their wickednesse, and the princes with their lies.
4They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.
4‖‖They are al adulterers, as an ouen heated by the baker: who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, vntill it be leauened.
Selected passage5In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.
5‖In the day of our King, the princes haue made him sicke with bottels of wine, he stretched out his hand with scorners.