Hosea 5 · Verse 3

Hosea 5:3

I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled.
Hosea 5:3, King James Version

Hosea 5:3 in other translations

BSBI know all about Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from Me. For now, O Ephraim, you have turned to prostitution; Israel is defiled.
WEBI know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; for now, Ephraim, you have played the prostitute. Israel is defiled.
ASVI know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me; for now, O Ephraim, thou hast played the harlot, Israel is defiled.
YLTI have known Ephraim, And Israel hath not been hid from me, For now thou hast gone a-whoring, Ephraim, Defiled is Israel.
DARBYI know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me; for now, Ephraim, thou hast committed whoredom; Israel is defiled.
BBEI have knowledge of Ephraim, and Israel is not secret from me; for now, O Ephraim, you have been false to me, Israel has become unclean.
WebsterI know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou art guilty of lewdness, and Israel is defiled.

What does Hosea 5:3 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
3. Ephraim--the tribe so called, as distinguished from "Israel" here, the other nine tribes. It was always foremost of the tribes of the northern kingdom. For four hundred years in early history, it, with Manasseh and Benjamin, its two dependent tribes, held the pre-eminence in the whole nation. Ephraim is here addressed as foremost in idolatry. I how ... not hid from me--notwithstanding their supposed profound cunning (Ho 5:2; Re 2:2, 9, 13, 19). now--"though I have been a rebuker of all them" (Ho 5:2) who commit such spiritual whoredoms, thou art now continuing in them.

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 3 I know Ephraim - I know the whole to be idolaters.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Hosea 5:1-7

The Divine judgments against Israel. (Hos. 5:1-7) Approaching desolations threatened. (Hos. 5:8-15) Verses 1-7 The piercing eye of God saw secret liking and disposition to sin, the love the house of Israel had to their sins, and the dominion their sins had over them. Pride makes men obstinate in other sins. And as Judah was treading in the same steps, they would fall with Israel. By dealing treacherously with the…

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Hosea 5:3 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.

אֲנִי֙'a.NiIH589
יָדַ֣עְתִּיya.Da'.tiI knowH3045
אֶפְרַ֔יִם'ef.Ra.yimEphraimH669
וְיִשְׂרָאֵ֖לve.Yis.ra.'Eland IsraelH3478
לֹֽא\־lo'-notH3808
נִכְחַ֣דnikh.Chadit is hiddenH3582
מִמֶּ֑נִּיmi.Me.nifrom meH4480
כִּ֤יkiforH3588
עַתָּה֙'a.TahnowH6258
הִזְנֵ֣יתָhiz.Nei.tayou have prostituted yourselfH2181
אֶפְרַ֔יִם'ef.Ra.yimO EphraimH669
נִטְמָ֖אnit.Ma'it has made itself uncleanH2930
יִשְׂרָאֵֽל\׃Yis.ra.'ElIsraelH3478

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Cross references for Hosea 5:3

  • Amos 3:2

    You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.

  • Hebrews 4:13

    Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

  • Hosea 8:11

    Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin.

  • 1 Kings 12:26-33

    And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom return to the house of David: If this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn again unto their lord, even unto Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me, and go again to Rehoboam king of Judah. Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. And he set the one in Beth–el, and the other put he in Dan. …

  • Isaiah 7:17

    The Lord shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father’s house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.

  • Hosea 12:1

    Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.

  • Hosea 6:4

    O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.

  • Isaiah 7:5

    Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying,

  • Hosea 13:1

    When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died.

  • 1 Kings 14:14-16

    Moreover the Lord shall raise him up a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day: but what? even now. For the Lord shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the Lord to anger. And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin, and who made Israel to sin.

  • Ezekiel 23:5-21

    And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours, Which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses. Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself. Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her. …

  • Amos 5:12

    For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
know.
Am 3:2; Heb 4:13; Re 3:15
Ephraim.
9,11,13; 6:4; 8:11; 12:1; 13:1; Ge 48:19,20; De 33:17; Isa 7:5,8,9,17
thou.
4:17,18; 1Ki 12:26-33; 14:14-16; Eze 23:5-21

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Context

  • Hosea 5:2

    And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all.

  • Hosea 5:3

    I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled.

  • Hosea 5:4

    They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they have not known the Lord.

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Hosea 5:3 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Yo conozco á Ephraim, é Israel no me es desconocido: porque ahora, oh Ephraim, has fornicado, y se ha contaminado Israel.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Je connais Éphraïm, et Israël ne m’est point caché; car maintenant, Éphraïm, tu as commis la fornication; Israël s’est souillé.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Ich kenne Ephraim wohl, und Israel ist nicht vor mir verborgen; denn nun hast du Hurerei getrieben, Ephraim, Israel hat sich verunreinigt.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Ego scio Ephraim, et Israël non est absconditus a me: quia nunc fornicatus est Ephraim; contaminatus est Israël.