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