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Hosea 8

Hos. 8:12 KJV (With Strong’s)

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I have written
kathab (Hebrew #3789)
to grave, by implication, to write (describe, inscribe, prescribe, subscribe)
KJV usage: describe, record, prescribe, subscribe, write(-ing, -ten).
Pronounce: kaw-thab'
Origin: a primitive root
to him the great things
ribbow (Hebrew #7239)
or ribbow {rib-bo'} from 7231; a myriad, i.e. indefinitely, large number
KJV usage: great things, ten ((eight)-een, (for)-ty, + sixscore, + threescore, X twenty, (twen)-ty) thousand.
Pronounce: rib-bo'
Origin: from 7231
rob (Hebrew #7230)
abundance (in any respect)
KJV usage: abundance(- antly), all, X common (sort), excellent, great(-ly, -ness, number), huge, be increased, long, many, more in number, most, much, multitude, plenty(-ifully), X very (age).
Pronounce: robe
Origin: from 7231
of my law
towrah (Hebrew #8451)
from 3384; a precept or statute, especially the Decalogue or Pentateuch
KJV usage: law.
Pronounce: to-raw'
Origin: or torah {to-raw'}
, but they were counted
chashab (Hebrew #2803)
properly, to plait or interpenetrate, i.e. (literally) to weave or (gen.) to fabricate; figuratively, to plot or contrive (usually in a malicious sense); hence (from the mental effort) to think, regard, value, compute
KJV usage: (make) account (of), conceive, consider, count, cunning (man, work, workman), devise, esteem, find out, forecast, hold, imagine, impute, invent, be like, mean, purpose, reckon(-ing be made), regard, think.
Pronounce: khaw-shab'
Origin: a primitive root
as a strange thing
zuwr (Hebrew #2114)
to turn aside (especially for lodging); hence to be a foreigner, strange, profane; specifically (active participle) to commit adultery
KJV usage: (come from) another (man, place), fanner, go away, (e-)strange(-r, thing, woman).
Pronounce: zoor
Origin: a primitive root
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Deut. 4:6‑8• 6Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
 7For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as Jehovah our God is in all things that we call upon him for?
 8And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day. (Deut. 4:6‑8)
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Neh. 9:13‑14• 13{i}And thou camest down on mount Sinai, and didst speak with them from the heavens, and gavest them right judgments and true laws, good statutes and commandments.{/i}
 14{i}And thou madest known unto them thy holy Sabbath, and prescribedst for them commandments and statutes and a law, through Moses thy servant.{/i} (Neh. 9:13‑14)
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Psa. 119:18• 18Open mine eyes,{HR}And I shall behold wondrous things out of thy law. (Psa. 119:18)
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Psa. 147:19‑20• 19He showeth his word to Jacob,{HR}His statutes and his judgments to Israel.
 20He dealt not thus with any nation;{HR}And [his] judgments, they knew them not.{HR}Praise ye Jah. (Psa. 147:19‑20)
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Prov. 22:20• 20Have not I written to thee excellent things{HR}In counsels and knowledge, (Prov. 22:20)
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Ezek. 20:11• 11And I gave them my statutes, and showed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them. (Ezek. 20:11)
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Rom. 3:1• 1What then [is] the superiority of the Jew, or what the profit of circumcision? (Rom. 3:1)
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Rom. 7:12• 12So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good. (Rom. 7:12)
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Hos. 4:6• 6My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I also will reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: because thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I too will forget thy children. (Hos. 4:6)
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2 Kings 17:15‑16• 15{i}And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant which he had made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he had testified unto them; and they followed vanity and became vain, and went after the nations that were round about them, concerning whom Jehovah had charged them that they should not do like them.{/i}
 16{i}And they forsook all the commandments of Jehovah their God, and made them molten images, two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshipped all the host of the heavens, and served Baal;{/i} (2 Kings 17:15‑16)
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Neh. 9:26• 26{i}But they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets who testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.{/i} (Neh. 9:26)
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Psa. 50:17• 17And thou hast hated correction,{HR}And hast cast my words behind thee. (Psa. 50:17)
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Isa. 30:9• 9For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children [that] will not hear the law of Jehovah; (Isa. 30:9)
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Jer. 6:16‑17• 16{i}Thus saith Jehovah: Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the ancient paths, which is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein .{/i}
 17{i}Also I have set watchmen over you: —Hearken ye to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.{/i} (Jer. 6:16‑17)

J. N. Darby Translation

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I have prescribed unto him the manifold things of my law: they are counted as a strange thing.

W. Kelly Translation

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I have written to him the great things of my law: they were counted as a strange thing.