Hosea 7:4

Hosea 7:4 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.
• New International Version (NIV)They are all adulterers, burning like an oven whose fire the baker need not stir from the kneading of the dough till it rises.
• English Standard Version (ESV)They are all adulterers; they are like a heated oven whose baker ceases to stir the fire, from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.
• New King James Version (NKJV)“They are all adulterers. Like an oven heated by a baker— He ceases stirring the fire after kneading the dough, Until it is leavened.

Context of Hosea 7:4

2But they never admit in their heart that I remember all their evil. Now their deeds are all around them. They are right before My face. 3They gladden the king with their evil and the princes with their lies. All of them are practicing adultery, as an oven heated by a baker who stops stirring or kneading dough when it is leavened. 5On the day of our king, princes become sick from wine. His hand drags scorners along. 6For their hearts are like an oven, as they wait in ambush. All night their anger smolders. In the morning it burns like a blazing fire.

Hosea 7:4 word by word

כֻּלָּם֙ מְנָ֣אֲפִ֔ים כְּמ֣וֹ תַנּ֔וּר בֹּעֵ֖רָה מֵֽאֹפֶ֑ה יִשְׁבּ֣וֹת מֵעִ֔יר מִלּ֥וּשׁ בָּצֵ֖ק עַד־חֻמְצָתֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• all adulterersנָאַףnâ'aph · to commit adulteryH5003
• as an ovenתַּנּוּרtannûr · ovenH8574
• heatedבָּעַרbâ‛ar · to burn: burnH1197
• by the bakerאָפָה'âphâh · to bakeH644
• ceasethשָׁבַתshâbath · to ceaseH7673
• from raisingעוּר‛ûr · to rouseH5782
• after he hath kneadedלוּשׁlûsh · to kneadH3888
• the doughבָּצֵקbâtsêq · doughH1217
• until it be leavenedחָמֵץchâmêts · be sourH2556

Cross-references for Hosea 7:4

• Hosea 4:2Curse, deceive, murder, steal, commit adultery! They practice violence, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.
• Jeremiah 5:7“Why therefore should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by those who are not gods. Even though I fed them well, they committed adultery and thronged to the prostitute houses.
• Jeremiah 9:2They bend their tongue like a bow. Lies, not faithfulness, prevail in the land. “For they go from evil to evil and do not know Me,” says Adonai.
• James 4:4You adulteresses! Don’t you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
• Hosea 7:6For their hearts are like an oven, as they wait in ambush. All night their anger smolders. In the morning it burns like a blazing fire.

Commentaries on Hosea 7:4

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4As an oven heated by the baker - Calmet's paraphrase on this and the following verses expresses pretty nearly the sense: Hosea makes a twofold comparison of the Israelites; to an oven, and to dough. Jeroboam set fire to his own oven - his kingdom - and put the leaven in his dough; and afterwards went to rest, that the fire might have time to heat his oven, and the leaven to raise his dough, that the false principles which he introduced might infect the…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4They are all adulterers - The prophet continues to picture the corruption of all kinds and degrees of people. “All of them,” king, princes, people; all were given to adultery, both spiritual, in departing from God, and actual, (for both sorts of sins went together,) in defiling themselves and others. “All of them” were, (so the word means,) habitual “adulterers.” One only pause there was in their sin, the preparation to complete it. He likens their…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 4adulterers: Hosea used this term earlier to describe spiritual betrayal (Hosea 3:1). Here, it refers to those who were unfaithful to the king.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 44. who ceaseth from raising--rather, "heating" it, from an Arabic root, "to be hot." So the Septuagint. Their adulterous and idolatrous lust is inflamed as the oven of a baker who has it at such a heat that he ceaseth from heating it only from the time that he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened; he only needs to omit feeding it during the short period of the fermentation of the bread. Compare 2Pe 2:14, "that cannot cease from sin" [Henderson].Read the comment

Topics related to Hosea 7:4

• Adultery
• Baker
• Bread
• Dough
• Furnace
• Godlessness
• Leaven (Yeast)
• Oven
• Sin
• Wicked (People)

In the dictionaries

• Bake
• Bread
• Knead
• Oven
• Troop
• Hosea
• Raise
• Zechariah, Book of
• Handicraft

Commentaries on Hosea 7

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings