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Hosea 9:14

Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

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תֵּןtengiveנָתַןverb, qal, imperative, 2nd person, masculine, singular — “give”, a commandH5414to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, [idiom] avenge, [idiom] be (healed), bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge, come, commit, consider, count, [phrase] cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, [idiom] doubtless, [idiom] wi…לָהֶ֥םlahemtoלָהֶ֥םpreposition, suffix, pronominal, 3rd person, masculine, plural — “to”toיְהוָ֖הyehvahJehovahיְהֹוָהnoun, proper name — “Jehovah”H3068Jehovah, Jewish national name of GodJehovah, the Lord. Compare H3050 (יָהּ), H3069 (יְהֹוִה).מַהmahhowמָהparticle, interrogative — “how”H4100properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively, that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjunctive senseshow (long, oft, (-soever)), (no-) thing, what (end, good, purpose, thing), whereby(-fore, -in, -to, -with), (for) why.תִּתֵּ֑ןtitengiveנָתַןverb, qal, imperfect, 2nd person, masculine, singular — “give”, an unfinished actionH5414to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, [idiom] avenge, [idiom] be (healed), bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge, come, commit, consider, count, [phrase] cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, [idiom] doubtless, [idiom] wi…תֵּןtengiveנָתַןverb, qal, imperative, 2nd person, masculine, singular — “give”, a commandH5414to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, [idiom] avenge, [idiom] be (healed), bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge, come, commit, consider, count, [phrase] cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, [idiom] doubtless, [idiom] wi…לָהֶם֙lahemtoלָהֶם֙preposition, suffix, pronominal, 3rd person, masculine, plural — “to”toרֶ֣חֶםrechemwombרֶחֶםnoun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “womb”, the ordinary formH7358the wombmatrix, womb.מַשְׁכִּ֔ילmashkilbereaveשָׁכֹלverb, hiphil, participle, absolute — “bereave”, a verb used as a describing wordH7921properly, to miscarry, i.e. suffer abortion; by analogy, to bereave (literally or figuratively)bereave (of children), barren, cast calf (fruit, young), be (make) childless, deprive, destroy, [idiom] expect, lose children, miscarry, rob of children, spoil.וְשָׁדַ֖יִםveshadayimand breastשַׁדconjunction, noun, common, masculine, dual, absolute — “and breast”, the ordinary formH7699the breast of a woman or animal (as bulging)breast, pap, teat.צֹמְקִֽיםtsomeqimdryצָמַקverb, qal, participle, absolute — “dry”, a verb used as a describing wordH6784to dry updry.

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

Give them, O LORD, whatsoever Thou wilt give; give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

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American Standard Version (1901)

Give them, O Jehovah—what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

Young’s Literal Translation

Give to them, Jehovah — what dost Thou give? Give to them miscarrying womb, and dry breasts.

World English Bible

Give them—Yahweh what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

Darby Translation

Give them, Jehovah — what wilt thou give? — give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

Douay-Rheims

Give them, O Lord. What wilt thou give them? Give them a womb without children, and dry breasts.

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

Give them, O LORD, whatsoever Thou wilt give; give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

Give them, O Lord: what wilt thou give them? a miscarrying womb, and dry breasts.

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

Δὸς αὐτοῖς Κύριε, τί δώσεις αὐτοῖς; μήτραν ἀτεκνοῦσαν, καὶ μαστοὺς ξηρούς.