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Hosea 10:8

“The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

שָׁמַדshâmad · shaw-mad'
H8045 · Hebrew
Definition
to desolate
Derivation
a primitive root;
KJV renderings
destory(-uction), bring to nought, overthrow, perish, pluck down, [idiom] utterly.
Grammar
  • וְ — conjunction
  • נִשְׁמְד֞וּ — verb Niphal, sequential perfect, 3rd person, common, plural
Code HC/VNq3cp
Usage
Occurs 90 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 34:30Leviticus 26:30Numbers 33:52Deuteronomy 1:27Deuteronomy 2:12

Theological interpretation (AI)

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Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.