Hosea Notes

Hosea 1

a 1:6 Literally No-Mercy

b 1:6 Or That I may forgive them at all

c 1:9 Literally Not-My-People

d 1:10 Hebrew lo-ammi (compare verse 9)

Hosea 2

a 2:1 Hebrew Ammi (compare 1:9, 10)

b 2:1 Hebrew Ruhamah (compare 1:6)

c 2:16 Hebrew Ishi

d 2:16 Hebrew Baali

e 2:22 Literally God Will Sow

f 2:23 Hebrew lo-ruhamah

g 2:23 Hebrew lo-ammi

Hosea 3

a 3:1 Literally friend or husband

Hosea 4

a 4:7 Following Masoretic Text, Septuagint, and Vulgate; scribal tradition, Syriac, and Targum read They will change.

b 4:7 Following Masoretic Text, Septuagint, Syriac, Targum, and Vulgate; scribal tradition reads My glory.

c 4:14 Compare Deuteronomy 23:18

d 4:18 Hebrew is difficult; a Jewish tradition reads Her rulers shamefully love, ‘Give!’

Hosea 6

a 6:7 Or like Adam

Hosea 7

a 7:6 Following Masoretic Text and Vulgate; Syriac and Targum read Their anger; Septuagint reads Ephraim.

b 7:14 Following Masoretic Text and Targum; Vulgate reads thought upon; Septuagint reads slashed themselves for (compare 1 Kings 18:28).

c 7:14 Following Masoretic Text, Syriac, and Targum; Septuagint omits They rebel against Me; Vulgate reads They departed from Me.

d 7:16 Or upward

Hosea 8

a 8:1 Hebrew shophar, ram’s horn

b 8:10 Or begin to diminish

c 8:10 Or oracle

d 8:14 Or palaces

Hosea 9

a 9:8 That is, one who catches birds in a trap or snare

Hosea 10

a 10:5 Literally calves

b 10:9 So read many Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, and Vulgate; Masoretic Text reads unruliness.

c 10:10 Or in their two habitations

Hosea 11

a 11:2 Following Masoretic Text and Vulgate; Septuagint reads Just as I called them; Targum interprets as I sent prophets to a thousand of them.

b 11:2 Following Masoretic Text, Targum, and Vulgate; Septuagint reads from My face.

c 11:3 Some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate read My arms.

d 11:4 Literally cords of a man

e 11:4 Literally jaws

f 11:7 Or upward

g 11:9 Or I will not enter a city

h 11:12 Or holy ones

Hosea 12

a 12:3 Compare Genesis 32:28

Hosea 13

a 13:2 Or those who offer human sacrifice

b 13:9 Literally it or he destroyed you

c 13:9 Literally in your help

d 13:10 Septuagint, Syriac, Targum, and Vulgate read Where is your king?

e 13:14 Or Sheol

f 13:14 Septuagint reads where is your punishment?

g 13:14 Or Sheol

h 13:14 Septuagint reads where is your sting?

i 13:16 Septuagint reads shall be disfigured

Hosea 14

a 14:2 Literally bull calves; Septuagint reads fruit.

b 14:7 Literally remembrance