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Hosea 6

Hos. 6:8 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Gilead
Gil`ad (Hebrew #1568)
Gilad, a region East of the Jordan; also the name of three Israelites
KJV usage: Gilead, Gileadite.
Pronounce: ghil-awd'
Origin: probably from 1567
is a city
qiryah (Hebrew #7151)
a city
KJV usage: city.
Pronounce: kir-yaw'
Origin: from 7136 in the sense of flooring, i.e. building
of them that work
pa`al (Hebrew #6466)
to do or make (systematically and habitually), especially to practise
KJV usage: commit, (evil-) do(-er), make(-r), ordain, work(-er).
Pronounce: paw-al'
Origin: a primitive root
iniquity
'aven (Hebrew #205)
strictly nothingness; also trouble. vanity, wickedness; specifically an idol
KJV usage: affliction, evil, false, idol, iniquity, mischief, mourners(-ing), naught, sorrow, unjust, unrighteous, vain ,vanity, wicked(-ness). Compare 369.
Pronounce: aw-ven'
Origin: from an unused root perhaps meaning properly, to pant (hence, to exert oneself, usually in vain; to come to naught)
, and is κpolluted
`aqob (Hebrew #6121)
in the original sense, a knoll (as swelling up); in the denominative sense (transitive) fraudulent or (intransitive) tracked
KJV usage: crooked, deceitful, polluted.
Pronounce: aw-kobe'
Origin: from 6117
with blood
dam (Hebrew #1818)
blood (as that which when shed causes death) of man or an animal; by analogy, the juice of the grape; figuratively (especially in the plural) bloodshed (i.e. drops of blood)
KJV usage: blood(-y, -guiltiness, (-thirsty), + innocent.
Pronounce: dawm
Origin: from 1826 (compare 119)
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or, cunning for.

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Ministry on This Verse

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Gilead.
Hos. 12:11• 11{i}If Gilead is iniquity, surely they are but vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.{/i} (Hos. 12:11)
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Josh. 21:38• 38{i}and out of the tribe of Gad, the city of refuge for the slayer, Ramoth in Gilead and its suburbs; and Mahanaim and its suburbs,{/i} (Josh. 21:38)
polluted with blood.
or, cunning for blood.
Hos. 5:1• 1{i}Hear this, ye priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ear, O house of the king: for this judgment is for you; for ye have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.{/i} (Hos. 5:1)
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2 Sam. 3:27• 27{i}And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the gate to speak with him secretly, and smote him there in the belly, that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.{/i} (2 Sam. 3:27)
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2 Sam. 20:8• 8{i}When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa came before them. And Joab was girded with his coat, his dress, and upon it was the girdle of the sword which was fastened on his loins in its sheath; and as he went forth it fell out.{/i} (2 Sam. 20:8)
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1 Kings 2:5• 5{i}And thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his girdle that was about his loins, and upon his sandals that were on his feet.{/i} (1 Kings 2:5)
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Psa. 10:8• 8He sitteth in the place of ambush of the villages;{HR}In the lurking places he slayeth the innocent;{HR}His eyes lurk for the wretched. (Psa. 10:8)
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Psa. 59:2• 2Deliver me from doers of iniquity,{HR}And save me from men of blood. (Psa. 59:2)
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Isa. 59:6• 6Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works; their works [are] works of iniquity, and the act of violence [is] in their hands. (Isa. 59:6)
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Jer. 11:19• 19{i}And I was like a tame lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.{/i} (Jer. 11:19)
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Mic. 7:2• 2The good man is perished {i}out of the land, and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood, they hunt every man his brother with a net.{/i} (Mic. 7:2)
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Matt. 26:15‑16• 15{i}and said, What are ye willing to give me, and I will deliver him up to you? And they appointed to him thirty pieces of silver.{/i}
 16{i}And from that time he sought a good opportunity that he might deliver him up.{/i} (Matt. 26:15‑16)
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Acts 23:12‑15• 12And when it was day the Jews, having made a combination, put themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.
 13And those that made the conspiracy were more than forty,
 14who therefore came to the high priests and the elders, and said, We have put ourselves under a great curse, to taste nothing until we have killed Paul.
 15Now therefore do ye, with the council, signify to the commander that he bring him down unto you as though ye would judge his cause more exactly. But we, before he come near, are ready to slay him. (Acts 23:12‑15)
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Acts 25:3• 3asking a favour that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying wait to kill him on the way. (Acts 25:3)
• The region of Gilead, which was across the Jordan, is next specified. No city of the name is known: if none, the name is given by a bold figure to their corporate union in corruption and violence. (“Hosea 6” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity; it is tracked with bloodc.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "full of bloodmarks."

W. Kelly Translation

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Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.