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Hoseachapter 2

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Hosea 2— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition

In Jewish life

Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about Hosea 2. 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.

Plead with your mother, for she is not my wife1

Hosea 2:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible

אִמְר֥וּʾimrusayH559לַאֲחֵיכֶ֖םlaacheikhemto brothers yourH251עַמִּ֑יʾamipeople myH5971וְלַאֲחֽוֹתֵיכֶ֖םvelaachoteikhemand to sisters yourH269רֻחָֽמָה׃ruchamahshe is Shown CompassionH7355

Rashi on Hosea 2:1

RashiFrance, 1040–1105· Commentary
And the number..shall be What is the connection of retribution and consolation juxtaposed in one speech? Our Rabbis explained in Pesachim (87b): Hosea felt that he had sinned by saying, “Exchange them for another nation.” He stood and begged mercy for them (See above:2).

Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg

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