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Hosea 9:11

As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.

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אֶפְרַ֕יִםefrayimEphraimאֶפְרַיִםnoun, proper name — “Ephraim”H669Ephrajim, a son of Joseph; also the tribe descended from him, and its territoryEphraim, Ephraimites.כָּע֖וֹףkaofas birdעוֹףpreposition, with the article, noun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “as bird”, the ordinary formH5775a bird (as covered with feathers, or rather as covering with wings), often collectivelybird, that flieth, flying, fowl.יִתְעוֹפֵ֣ףyitofefflyעוּףverb, hithpolel, imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular — “fly”, an unfinished actionH5774to fly; also (by implication of dimness) to faint (from the darkness of swooning)brandish, be (wax) faint, flee away, fly (away), [idiom] set, shine forth, weary.כְּבוֹדָ֑םkevodamgloriousכָּבוֹדnoun, common, both genders, singular, construct, suffix, pronominal, 3rd person, masculine, plural — “glorious”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH3519properly, weight, but only figuratively in a good sense, splendor or copiousnessglorious(-ly), glory, honour(-able).מִלֵּדָ֥הmiledahfrom bearיָלַדpreposition, noun, common, feminine, singular, absolute — “from bear”, the ordinary formH3205to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineagebear, beget, birth(-day), born, (make to) bring forth (children, young), bring up, calve, child, come, be delivered (of a child), time of delivery, gender, hatch, labour, (do the office of a) midwife, declare pedigrees, be the son of, (wom…וּמִבֶּ֖טֶןumibetenand from bodyבֶּטֶןconjunction, preposition, noun, common, feminine, singular, absolute — “and from body”, the ordinary formH990the belly, especially the womb; also the bosom or body of anythingbelly, body, [phrase] as they be born, [phrase] within, womb.וּמֵהֵרָיֽוֹןumeherayonand from conceptionהֵרוֹןconjunction, preposition, noun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “and from conception”, the ordinary formH2032pregnancyconception.

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird; there shall be no birth, and none with child, and no conception.

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American Standard Version (1901)

As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird: there shall be no birth, and none with child, and no conception.

Young’s Literal Translation

Ephraim [is] as a fowl, Fly away doth their honour, without birth, And without womb, and without conception.

World English Bible

As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird. There will be no birth, no one with child, and no conception.

Darby Translation

As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away as a bird, — no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!

Douay-Rheims

As for Ephraim, their glory hath flown away like a bird from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird; there shall be no birth, and none with child, and no conception.

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

Ephraim has flown away as a bird; their glories from the birth, and the travail, and the conception.

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

Ἐφραὶμ ὡς ὄρνεον ἐξεπετάσθη, αἱ δόξαι αὐτῶν ἐκ τόκων καὶ ὠδίνων καὶ συλλήψεων·