Hosea 4:11

Hosea 4:11

Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.

a. NLT: to worship other gods. “Wine has robbed my people of their understanding.

b. NIV: to prostitution; old wine and new wine take away their understanding.

c. YLT: Whoredom, and wine, and new wine, take the heart,

d. Amplified Bible Classic: Harlotry and wine and new wine take away the heart and the mindand the spiritual understanding.

e. Septuagint: The heart of my people has gladly engaged in fornication and wine and strong drink. 

f. Stone Edition Torah/Prophets/Writings: Harlotry and wine and fresh wine capture the heart.

1. “Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.”

a. Whoredom [2184 * znuwth] [Strong: from 2181; adultery, i.e. (figuratively) infidelity, idolatry:--whoredom.]

b. and wine [3196 * yayin] [Strong: from an unused root meaning to effervesce; wine (as fermented); by implication, intoxication:--banqueting, wine, wine(-bibber).]

c. and new wine [8492 * tiyrowsh; or tiyrosh] [Strong: from 3423 in the sense of expulsion; must or fresh grape-juice (as just squeezed out); by implication (rarely) fermented wine:--(new, sweet) wine.]

d. take away [3947 * laqach] [Strong: a primitive root; to take (in the widest variety of applications):--accept, bring, buy, carry away, drawn, fetch, get, infold, X many, mingle, place, receive(-ing), reserve, seize, send for, take (away, -ing, up), use, win.]

e. the heart [3820 * leb] [Strong: a form of 3824; the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything:--+ care for, comfortably, consent, X considered, courag(-eous), friend(-ly), ((broken-), (hard-), (merry-), (stiff-), (stout-), double) heart((-ed)), X heed, X I, kindly, midst, mind(-ed), X regard((-ed)), X themselves, X unawares, understanding, X well, willingly, wisdom.]

1). We can be captured physically, spiritually, emotionally, mentally.

a). Proverbs 23:29-35 Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?

23:30 They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.

23:31 Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.

23:32 At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.

23:33 Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.

23:34 Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.

23:35 They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.

b). Colossians 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

c). Proverbs 5:21-23 For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.

5:22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.

5:23 He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.