Hosea 12:7
Strong's Lexicon
A merchant
כְּנַ֗עַן (kə·na·‘an)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3667: Canaan = 'lowland' n pr m 1) the 4th son of Ham and the progenitor of the Phoenicians and of the various nations who peopled the seacoast of Palestine n pr loc 2) the land west of the Jordan peopled by the descendants of Canaan and subsequently conquered by the Israelites under Joshua n m 3) merchant, trader

loves
אָהֵֽב׃ (’ā·hêḇ)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 157: 1) to love 1a) (Qal) 1a1) human love for another, includes family, and sexual 1a2) human appetite for objects such as food, drink, sleep, wisdom 1a3) human love for or to God 1a4) act of being a friend 1a4a) lover (participle) 1a4b) friend (participle) 1a5) God's love toward man 1a5a) to individual men 1a5b) to people Israel 1a5c) to righteousness 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) lovely (participle) 1b2) loveable (participle) 1c) (Piel) 1c1) friends 1c2) lovers (fig. of adulterers) 2) to like

to defraud
לַעֲשֹׁ֥ק (la·‘ă·šōq)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 6231: 1) to press upon, oppress, violate, defraud, do violence, get deceitfully, wrong, extort 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to oppress, wrong, extort 1a2) to oppress 1b) (Pual) to be exploited, be crushed

with dishonest
מִרְמָ֖ה (mir·māh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4820: 1) deceit, treachery

scales
מֹאזְנֵ֥י (mō·zə·nê)
Noun - mdc
Strong's Hebrew 3976: 1) scales, balances

in his hands.
בְּיָד֛וֹ (bə·yā·ḏōw)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3027: 1) hand 1a) hand (of man) 1b) strength, power (fig.) 1c) side (of land), part, portion (metaph.) (fig.) 1d) (various special, technical senses) 1d1) sign, monument 1d2) part, fractional part, share 1d3) time, repetition 1d4) axle-trees, axle 1d5) stays, support (for laver) 1d6) tenons (in tabernacle) 1d7) a phallus, a hand (meaning unsure) 1d8) wrists

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
A merchant loves to defraud with dishonest scales in his hands.

Young's Literal Translation
Canaan! in his hand [are] balances of deceit! To oppress he hath loved.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
A merchant loves to extort with dishonest scales in his hands.

New American Standard Bible
A merchant, in whose hands are false balances, He loves to oppress.

King James Bible
[He is] a merchant, the balances of deceit [are] in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
Parallel Verses
New International Version
The merchant uses dishonest scales and loves to defraud.

New Living Translation
But no, the people are like crafty merchants selling from dishonest scales--they love to cheat.

English Standard Version
A merchant, in whose hands are false balances, he loves to oppress.

New American Standard Bible
A merchant, in whose hands are false balances, He loves to oppress.

King James Bible
He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
A merchant loves to extort with dishonest scales in his hands.

International Standard Version
"Now as for the merchant, deceitful balances remain in his hand, and he loves to defraud.

NET Bible
The businessmen love to cheat; they use dishonest scales.

American Standard Version
He is a trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.

English Revised Version
He is a trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.

Young's Literal Translation
Canaan! in his hand are balances of deceit! To oppress he hath loved.
















Cross References
Proverbs 11:1
A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.

Ezekiel 28:5
By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:

Amos 8:5
Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?

Micah 6:11
Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?

Zechariah 5:8
And he said, This is wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.

Hosea 1:1
The word of the LORD that came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.

Hosea 12:6
Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.

Hosea 12:5
Even the LORD God of hosts; the LORD is his memorial.

Hosea 12:4
Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spake with us;

Hosea 12:8
And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin.

Hosea 12:9
And I that am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast.
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