King James Version

Hosea 6:8

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

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גִּלְעָ֕דgiladGileadגִּלְעָדnoun, proper name — “Gilead”H1568Gilad, a region East of the Jordan; also the name of three IsraelitesGilead, Gileadite.קִרְיַ֖תqiryatcityקִרְיָהnoun, common, feminine, singular, construct — “city”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH7151building; a citycity.פֹּ֣עֲלֵיpoaledoפָּעַלverb, qal, participle, construct — “do”, a verb used as a describing wordH6466to do or make (systematically and habitually), especially to practisecommit, (evil-) do(-er), make(-r), ordain, work(-er).אָ֑וֶןavenidolאָוֶןnoun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “idol”, the ordinary formH205strictly nothingness; also trouble. vanity, wickedness; specifically an idolaffliction, evil, false, idol, iniquity, mischief, mourners(-ing), naught, sorrow, unjust, unrighteous, vain, vanity, wicked(-ness). Compare H369 (אַיִן).עֲקֻבָּ֖הaqubahcrookedעָקֹבadjective, adjective, feminine, singular, absolute — “crooked”, the ordinary formH6121(transitive) fraudulent or (intransitive) trackedcrooked, deceitful, polluted.מִדָּֽםmidamfrom blood , innocentדָּםpreposition, noun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “from blood , innocent”, the ordinary formH1818blood (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)blood(-y, -guiltiness, (-thirsty), [phrase] innocent.

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, it is covered with footprints of blood.

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American Standard Version (1901)

Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity; it is stained with blood.

Young’s Literal Translation

Gilead [is] a city of workers of iniquity, Slippery from blood.

World English Bible

Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity; it is stained with blood.

Darby Translation

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

Douay-Rheims

Galaad is a city of workers of idols, supplanted with blood.

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, it is covered with footprints of blood.

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

there the city Galaad despised me, working vanity, troubling water.

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

ἐργαζομένη μάταια, ταράσσουσα ὕδωρ,