Hosea 4:11

Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
Whoredom	זְנ֛וּת ze.Nut	H2184	adultery · noun, common feminine singular absolute
wine	וְיַ֥יִן ve.Ya.yin	H3196	wine (as fermented) · conjunction + noun, common masculine singular absolute
wine	וְתִיר֖וֹשׁ ve.ti.Ro.osh	H8492	must or fresh grape-juice (as just squeezed out) · conjunction + noun, common masculine singular absolute
away	יִֽקַּֽח yi.kach-	H3947	to take (in the widest variety of applications) · verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
heart	לֵֽב Lev	H3820	the heart · noun, common masculine singular absolute

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Proverbs 20:1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
Luke 21:34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so th…
Isaiah 28:7 But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong dri…
Proverbs 6:32 But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
Proverbs 23:27-35 For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
Ecclesiastes 7:7 Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.
Isaiah 5:12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider…
Hosea 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 ha…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Hosea 4:6-11

God is here proceeding in his controversy both with the priests and with the people. The people were as those that strove with the priests (Hos 4:4) when they had priests that did their duty; but the generality of them lived in the neglect of their duty, and here is a word for those priests, and for the people that love to have it so, Jer 5:31. And it is observable here how the punishment answers to the sin, and how, for the justifying of his own proceedings, God sets the one over-against the other. I. The people strove with the priests that should have taught them the knowledge of God; justly therefore were they destroyed for lack of knowledge, Hos 4:6. Note, Those that rebel against the li…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Hosea 4:11

A moral truth applicable to all times. The special reference here is to the licentious orgies connected with the Syrian worship, which lured Israel away from the pure worship of God (Isa 28:1, Isa 28:7; Amo 4:1). take away the heart--that is, the understanding; make men blind to their own true good (Ecc 7:7).

Adam Clarke on Hosea 4:11

Whoredom and wine - These debaucheries go generally together. Take away the heart - Darken the understanding, deprave the judgment, pervert the will, debase all the passions, etc.

John Gill on Hosea 4:11

Whoredom and wine, and new wine, take away the heart. Uncleanness and intemperance besot men, deprive them of reason and judgment, and even of common sense, make them downright fools, and so stupid as to do the following things; or they take away the heart from following the Lord, and taking heed to him, and lead to idolatry; or they "occupy" (z) the heart, and fill it up, and cause it to prefer sensual lusts and pleasures to the fear and love of God: their stupidity brought on hereby is exposed in the next verse; though it seems chiefly to respect the priests, who erred in vision through wine and strong drink, and stumbled in judgment, Isaiah 28:7. (z) "occupant cor", so some in Calvin an…

The Church Fathers

"fornication, and wine, and drunkenness take away the heart." LXX: "fornication, and wine, and drunkenness take away the heart of my people." But it should be read emphatically: Fornication and wine and drunkenness take away the heart. For just as wine and drunkenness make him who drinks thereof incapable of his own mind, so does fornication and pleasure pervert the senses and weaken the spirit; and it turns a rational man into a brute animal, so that he pursues brothels, dens of vice, and places of debauchery.
— Jerome, Commentary on Hosea 4:10-12

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Dictionary and topics

Wine — The common Hebrew word for wine is yayin, from a root meaning “to boil up,” “to be in a ferment.” Others derive it from a root meaning “to tread out,” and hence the juice of the grape trodden out.…
Adultery · 24:15-18;31:1,9-12; — 24:15-18;31:1,9-12;
Drunkenness · General scriptures concerning — General scriptures concerning
Wine · In excess: Impairs the health — In excess: Impairs the health

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Hosea 4:11

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Hosea 4:6-11

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Hosea 4:11

Adam Clarke on Hosea 4:11

John Gill on Hosea 4:11

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Hosea 4:11

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Hosea 4:6-11

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Hosea 4:11

Adam Clarke on Hosea 4:11

John Gill on Hosea 4:11

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

John Calvin on Hosea 4:11

Keil & Delitzsch on Hosea 4:11-12

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Hosea 4:10

Rashi on Hosea 4:11