Hosea 10 · Verse 7

Hosea 10:7

As for Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the water.
Hosea 10:7, King James Version

Hosea 10:7 in other translations

BSBSamaria will be carried off with her king like a twig on the surface of the water.
WEBSamaria and her king float away like a twig on the water.
ASVAs for Samaria, her king is cut off, as foam upon the water.
YLTCut off is Samaria! Its king is as a chip on the face of the waters.
DARBYAs for Samaria her king is cut off as chips upon the face of the waters.
BBEAs for Samaria, her king is cut off, like mist on the water.
WebsterAs for Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the water.

What does Hosea 10:7 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
7. (Ho 10:3, 15). foam--denoting short-lived existence and speedy dissolution. As the foam, though seeming to be eminent raised on the top of the water, yet has no solidity, such is the throne of Samaria. Maurer translates, "a chip" or broken branch that cannot resist the current.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 7 Her king is cut off as the foam - As lightly as a puff of wind blows off the foam that is formed below by a fall of water, so shall the kings of Israel be cut off. We have already seen that not less than four of them died by assassination in a very short time. See on Hos 7:7 (note).

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Hosea 10:1-8

The idolatry of Israel. (Hos. 10:1-8) They are exhorted to repentance. (Hos. 10:9-15) Verses 1-8 A vine is only valuable for its fruit; but Israel now brought no fruit to perfection. Their hearts were divided. God is the Sovereign of the heart; he will have all, or none. Were the stream of the heart wholly after God, it would run strongly, and bear down all before it. Their pretences to covenant with God were false…

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Hosea 10:7 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

נִדְמֶ֥הnid.Meh[will] be destroyedH1820
שֹׁמְר֖וֹןsho.me.RonSamariaH8111
מַלְכָּ֑הּmal.Kahking itsH4428
כְּקֶ֖צֶףke.Ke.tzeflike a twigH7110
עַל\־'al-onH5921
פְּנֵי\־pe.nei-[the] surface ofH6440
מָֽיִם\׃Ma.yim[the] watersH4325

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Hosea 10:7

  • Hosea 10:3

    For now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not the Lord; what then should a king do to us?

  • 2 Kings 1:3

    But the angel of the Lord said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say unto them, Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that ye go to enquire of Baal–zebub the god of Ekron?

  • Jude 1:13

    Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.

  • 1 Kings 21:1

    And it came to pass after these things, that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.

  • Hosea 13:11

    I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took him away in my wrath.

  • Hosea 10:15

    So shall Beth–el do unto you because of your great wickedness: in a morning shall the king of Israel utterly be cut off.

  • 2 Kings 17:4

    And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison.

  • 2 Kings 15:30

    And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Samaria.
1Ki 21:1; 2Ki 1:3
king.
3,15; 2Ki 15:30; 17:4
the water. Heb. the face of the waters.
Jude 1:13

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Hosea 10:6

    It shall be also carried unto Assyria for a present to king Jareb: Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.

  • Hosea 10:7

    As for Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the water.

  • 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.

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Hosea 10:7 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		De Samaria fué cortado su rey como la espuma sobre la superficie de las aguas.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Samarie est détruite, son roi a péri, comme un fétu sur la face des eaux;
German
Elberfelder 1871		Dahin ist Samaria und sein König, wie ein Splitter auf des Wassers Fläche.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Transire fecit Samaria regem suum quasi spumam super faciem aquæ.