Hoseachapter 6
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Original Language
Hosea 6— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition
In Jewish life
Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about Hosea 6. 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 6. 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
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.
Come, let us return; he will bind us up1
Hosea 6:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Hosea 6:2· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Hosea 6:2
He will revive us from the two days He will strengthen us from the two retributions which have passed over us from the two sanctuaries that were destroyed.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
Hosea 6:3· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Hosea 6:3
to know the Lord truly and wholeheartedly, as sure as the dawn, whose going forth is sure.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
Your goodness is a morning cloud — I desire mercy4
Hosea 6:4· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Hosea 6:4
What shall I do for you because of the Divine Standard of Justice; how can I bring out your verdicts to the light?
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
Hosea 6:5· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Hosea 6:6· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Priests who murder on the road to Shechem7
Hosea 6:7· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Hosea 6:8· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Hosea 6:9· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Hosea 6:10· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible