Hoseachapter 5
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Original Language
Hosea 5— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition
In Jewish life
Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about Hosea 5. 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
The yearly cycle does not read Hosea 5. The Haftarah is drawn from the Prophets a passage at a time rather than continuously, so most chapters of most prophetic books are never read in the service, and this is one of them.
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
4 rows sit beside their verses in the text, on 4 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.
A snare at Mizpah and a net spread on Tabor1
Hosea 5:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Hosea 5:1
for yours is the judgment The judgment of torments is upon you, O house of the king, for you have been a snare at Mizpah and a net on Tabor. On these two mountains they stationed sentries so that Israel would not make the pilgrimage to the Temple.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
Hosea 5:2· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Hosea 5:3· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Hosea 5:4· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Hosea 5:5· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Hosea 5:6· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Hosea 5:7· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Blow the trumpet — I will be like a moth to Ephraim8
Hosea 5:8· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Hosea 5:9· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Hosea 5:10· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Hosea 5:10
like those who remove the landmark As a person who attaches the landmark of his neighbor, so did they hasten to grasp the ways of Israel, their colleagues, the kings. Therefore, “upon them will I pour My wrath like water.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
Hosea 5:11· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Hosea 5:12· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Hosea 5:12
and like decay A worm which eats the wood and pulverizes it.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
They ran to Assyria, who could not heal their wound13
Hosea 5:13· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Hosea 5:14· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Hosea 5:14
I will carry off and no one will rescue I will carry off the prey.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
Hosea 5:15· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible