Hoseachapter 1
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Original Language
Hosea 1— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition
In Jewish life
Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about Hosea 1. 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 2:1 to 2:22, with the portion Bamidbar (Numbers 1:1 to 4:20).
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.
Go take a wife of whoredom1
Hosea 1:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Hosea 1:1
The word of the Lord which came to Hosea the son of Beeri in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, etc. He buried these four kings during his lifetime, for he outlived them all.
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Hosea 1:2· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Hosea 1:2
At the beginning of the Lord’s speaking to Hosea Lit. in the beginning the Lord spoke to Hosea. Therefore, our Rabbis stated: The first of the four prophets who prophesied (in these days): Hosea, Isaiah, Amos, and Micah. [Parshandatha reads: in the days of Uzziah.
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Hosea 1:3· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Jezreel, Lo-ruhamah, Lo-ammi — three names of judgment4
Hosea 1:4· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Hosea 1:4
Name him Jezreel Jonathan renders: Call their name the scattered ones. I.e. prophesy over them that they will be exiled, and they will be sown among the peoples.
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Hosea 1:5· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Hosea 1:6· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Hosea 1:7· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Hosea 1:8· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Hosea 1:9· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Yet as the sand of the sea, sons of the living God10
Hosea 1:10· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Hosea 1:11· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible