Hoseachapter 13
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Original Language
Hosea 13— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition
In Jewish life
Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about Hosea 13. 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 12:13 to 14:10, with the portion Vayetzei (Genesis 28:10 to 32:3) in Ashkenazi 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
3 rows sit beside their verses in the text, on 3 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.
Exalted once, then dead through Baal — gone like morning mist1
Hosea 13:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Hosea 13:1
When Ephraim spoke with trembling When Jeroboam showed zeal for the Omnipresent and spoke harshly against Solomon, and tremblingly, for Solomon was a great king.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
Hosea 13:2· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Hosea 13:3· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
They were filled and forgot me; I will meet them like a bear4
Hosea 13:4· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Hosea 13:5· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Hosea 13:6· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Hosea 13:7· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Hosea 13:8· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
I gave you a king in my anger and took him away in wrath9
Hosea 13:9· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Hosea 13:10· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Hosea 13:11· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
O death, where are your plagues? Samaria bears her guilt12
Hosea 13:12· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Hosea 13:12
The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up I did not overlook it; it is laid up with Me.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
Hosea 13:13· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Hosea 13:13
for [it is] a time For a time of trouble has come upon him, from which he will not be able to stand and endure.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
Hosea 13:14· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Hosea 13:15· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Hosea 13:16· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible