Hosea 4:12
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have played the harlot against their God.

Young's Literal Translation
My people at its staff asketh and its rod declareth to it, For a spirit of whoredoms hath caused to err, And they go a-whoring from under their God.

King James Bible
My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused [them] to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.

Hebrew
My people
עַמִּי֙ (‘am·mî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock

consult
יִשְׁאָ֔ל (yiš·’āl)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7592: To inquire, to request, to demand

their wooden idols,
בְּעֵצ֣וֹ (bə·‘ê·ṣōw)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 6086: Tree, trees, wood

and their divining rods
וּמַקְל֖וֹ (ū·maq·lōw)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 4731: A shoot, stick

inform them.
יַגִּ֣יד (yag·gîḏ)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5046: To be conspicuous

For
כִּ֣י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

a spirit
ר֤וּחַ (rū·aḥ)
Noun - common singular construct
Strong's 7307: Wind, breath, exhalation, life, anger, unsubstantiality, a region of the sky, spirit

of prostitution
זְנוּנִים֙ (zə·nū·nîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 2183: Adultery, idolatry

leads them astray
הִתְעָ֔ה (hiṯ·‘āh)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 8582: To vacillate, reel, stray

and they have played the harlot
וַיִּזְנ֖וּ (way·yiz·nū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 2181: To commit adultery, to commit idolatry

against
מִתַּ֥חַת (mit·ta·ḥaṯ)
Preposition-m
Strong's 8478: The bottom, below, in lieu of

their God.
אֱלֹהֵיהֶֽם׃ (’ĕ·lō·hê·hem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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