Hoseachapter 11
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Original Language
Hosea 11— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition
In Jewish life
Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about Hosea 11. Three things follow: where it is read, what is done because of it, and how the rabbis have taught it. The purpose is to inform a Christian reader what Jews believe and how Judaism was and is practised.
The reading
Read here as the Haftarah
- Hosea 11:7 to 12:12, with the portion Vayetzei (Genesis 28:10 to 32:3) in Sephardi use.
The verse numbers here are the ones a Hebrew Bible carries, which differ from an English Bible by a verse or two in several places. The Sephardi reading is named only where this site records a difference; communities vary beyond what is listed. What these books are, and how a Christian reader meets them →
Where the rabbis cite this chapter
5 rows sit beside their verses in the text, on 5 verses of this chapter. No row that speaks to the chapter as a whole is recorded. Every quote links to its full source.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria (sefaria.org); excerpts follow each version’s license, and every passage opens at its source.
How to read a word below: the Hebrewword, then how it sounds, then what it means, then its number in Strong’s concordance, a widely used lookup this site follows (H for Hebrew and Aramaic, G for Greek). Square brackets hold a word the English supplies that the Hebrew does not, angle brackets mark the Hebrew’s own grammatical elements that English renders as separate words, and the mark ס or פ is where the Hebrew manuscripts end a paragraph.
Out of Egypt I called my son and taught him to walk1
Hosea 11:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Hosea 11:1
and from Egypt I called My son through My prophets to cleave to My Torah. But what did they do?..
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Hosea 11:2· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Hosea 11:2
The more they called to them, the more they went away from them As much as the prophets call to teach them the good way, so did they turn their backs to run away from them.
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Hosea 11:3· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Hosea 11:3
But I sent to train Ephraim, he took them etc. I sent a leader before them who would train them gently.
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Hosea 11:4· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Hosea 11:4
with cords of a man I constantly drew them with tender cords with which a man draws his son; i.e., drawing mercifully. Jonathan, too, rendered it in this manner.
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They refuse to return, so the sword falls on their cities5
Hosea 11:5· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Hosea 11:6· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Hosea 11:7· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
How can I give you up, Ephraim? My heart turns within me8
Hosea 11:8· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Hosea 11:9· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Hosea 11:10· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Hosea 11:10
He shall roar like a lion He will yet roar to them like a lion that they leave the exile and follow Him.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
Hosea 11:11· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Hosea 11:12· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible