Hoseachapter 7
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Original Language
Hosea 7— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition
In Jewish life
Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about Hosea 7. 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 7. 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.
Hearts hot as an oven the baker need not stir1
Hosea 7:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Hosea 7:1
When I would heal Israel When I wish to save them and heal them, their iniquities are revealed before Me, for they constantly commit falsehood, and thieves come constantly from them and steal their neighbors’ property, and also their bands spread out with lawlessness, to rob the people.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
Hosea 7:2· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Hosea 7:3· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Hosea 7:4· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Hosea 7:5· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Hosea 7:6· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Hosea 7:7· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
A cake not turned, and gray hairs he never noticed8
Hosea 7:8· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Hosea 7:9· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Hosea 7:10· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
A silly dove flying to Egypt and to Assyria11
Hosea 7:11· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Hosea 7:11
without a heart to discern between what was good for them and what was bad for them.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
Hosea 7:12· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Hosea 7:13· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Hosea 7:13
I would redeem them I wanted to redeem them from the evil in which they are [found].
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
Hosea 7:14· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Hosea 7:14
therefore, they will wail on their beds Because, therefore, a wail will come to them. So did Jonathan render it.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
Hosea 7:15· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Hosea 7:16· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible