Hosea 1
2 a. Spiritual adultery
6 b. Lit. No-Mercy
6 c. Or That I may forgive them at all
9 d. Lit. Not-My-People
10 e. Heb. lo-ammi, v. 9
Hosea 2
1 a. Heb. Ammi, Hos. 1:9, 10
1 b. Heb. Ruhamah, Hos. 1:6
2 c. Or Contend with
2 d. Or contend
6 e. Lit. wall up her wall
7 f. Or pursue
14 g. Lit. to her heart
16 h. Heb. Ishi
16 i. Heb. Baali
22 j. Lit. God Will Sow
23 k. Heb. lo-ruhamah
23 l. Heb. lo-ammi
23 m. Heb. ammi
Hosea 3
1 a. Lit. friend or husband
Hosea 4
1 a. A legal complaint
2 b. Lit. touching
7 c. So with MT, LXX, Vg.; scribal tradition, Syr., Tg. They will change
7 d. So with MT, LXX, Syr., Tg., Vg.; scribal tradition My glory
8 e. Desires
9 f. repay
12 g. Diviner’s rod
15 h. Lit. House of Idolatry or Wickedness
16 i. Lit. a large place
18 j. Or has turned aside
18 k. Lit. shields
18 l. Heb. difficult; a Jewish tradition shamefully love, ‘Give!’
Hosea 5
1 a. Or to you
4 b. Or Their deeds will not allow them to turn
7 c. Lit. strange
15 d. Lit. become guilty or bear punishment
Hosea 6
1 a. Bandage
5 b. Or the judgments on you
6 c. Or faithfulness or loyalty
7 d. Or Adam
8 e. Lit. foot-tracked
10 f. Spiritual adultery
Hosea 7
1 a. plunders
2 b. Lit. do not say to
5 c. Lit. with the heat of
6 d. So with MT, Vg.; Syr., Tg. Their anger; LXX Ephraim
11 e. Lit. heart
14 f. So with MT, Tg.; Vg. thought upon; LXX slashed themselves for (cf. 1 Kin. 18:28)
14 g. So with MT, Syr., Tg.; LXX omits They rebel against Me; Vg. They departed from Me
16 h. Or upward
Hosea 8
1 a. ram’s horn, Heb. shophar
5 b. Golden calf image
5 c. Or has rejected you
10 d. Or begin to diminish
10 e. Or oracle or proclamation
14 f. Or palaces
14 g. Or citadels
Hosea 9
8 a. One who catches birds in a trap or snare
10 b. Or dedicated
Hosea 10
2 a. Divided in loyalty
5 b. Lit. calves, images
5 c. idolatrous priests
8 d. Lit. Idolatry or Wickedness
9 e. So with many Heb. mss., LXX, Vg.; MT unruliness
9 f. Or overcome
10 g. Or in their two habitations
11 h. Lit. to ride
Hosea 11
1 a. Or youth
2 b. So with MT, Vg.; LXX Just as I called them; Tg. interprets as I sent prophets to a thousand of them.
2 c. So with MT, Tg., Vg.; LXX from My face
3 d. Some Heb. mss., LXX, Syr., Vg. My arms
4 e. Lit. cords of a man
4 f. Lit. jaws
7 g. The prophets
7 h. Or upward
8 i. Lit. turns over
9 j. Or enter a city
12 k. Or holy ones
Hosea 12
1 a. ruin
1 b. Or treaty
2 c. A legal complaint
7 d. Or merchant
10 e. Or parables
10 f. Lit. by the hand
11 g. worthless
Hosea 13
2 a. Or those who offer human sacrifice
2 b. Worship with kisses
5 c. Cared for you
5 d. Lit. droughts
8 e. Lit. beast of the field
9 f. Lit. it or he destroyed you
9 g. Lit. in your help
10 h. LXX, Syr., Tg., Vg. Where is your king?
14 i. Lit. hand
14 j. Or Sheol
14 k. LXX where is your punishment?
14 l. Or Sheol
14 m. LXX where is your sting?
16 n. LXX shall be disfigured
Hosea 14
2 a. Lit. bull calves; LXX fruit
5 b. Lit. bud or sprout
5 c. Lit. strike
6 d. Lit. go
7 e. Lit. bud or sprout
7 f. Lit. remembrance