Keraia
Hosea 7

Hosea 7:4

Ephraim’s Iniquity · Hosea 7:1–16
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Translations

Modern
They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by a baker who needs not stoke the fire from the kneading to the rising of the dough.
Traditional
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.
Literal
They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by a baker, who ceases stirring the fire after kneading the dough until it is leavened.
Latin
Omnes adulterantes, quasi clibanus succensus a coquente; quievit paululum civitas a commistione fermenti, donec fermentaretur totum.

Original

Hebrew
English
They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by a baker who needs not stoke the fire from the kneading to the rising of the dough.

Notes

Hosea 7:4

adulterers: Hosea used this term earlier to describe spiritual betrayal (Hosea 3:1). Here, it refers to those who were unfaithful to the king.

Hosea 7:3–7

The northern kingdom of Israel had seven different kings during the last twenty-five years of its history. Four of these kings were killed by men who seized the throne. This passage refers to the violent and bloody political struggles that happened in those years.

Events

Glossary

Baker Bread Hosea, Book of Leaven Love Oven

Topics

Adultery: Israelites Baker: General Scriptures Concerning Bread was Baked in Ovens Bread was Kneaded Bread: How Prepared: Baked in Ovens Bread: How Prepared: Kneaded Bread: Kinds of Leavened (Made with Yeast) Dough: Kneaded Furnace of Lust Godlessness: General Scriptures Concerning Leaven (Yeast) for Bread Leaven used in Making Bread Oven: Figurative Sin: The Israelites The Wicked are Compared to Fiery Oven Wicked (People): Compared With: Fiery Oven