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Hosea

Hebrew — Westminster Leningrad Codex · 14 chapters

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Hosea 1:1

דְּבַר יְהוָ֣ה אֲשֶׁ֣ר הָיָ֗ה אֶל הוֹשֵׁ֨עַ֙ בֶּן בְּאֵרִ֔י בִּימֵ֨י עֻזִּיָּ֥ה יוֹתָ֛ם אָחָ֥ז יְחִזְקִיָּ֖ה מַלְכֵ֣י יְהוּדָ֑ה וּבִימֵ֛י יָרָבְעָ֥ם בֶּן יוֹאָ֖שׁ מֶ֥לֶךְ יִשְׂרָאֵֽל

word of · LORD · which · to be · to · Hosea · son of · Beeri · in/at days of · Uzziah · Jotham · Ahaz · Hezekiah · kings of · Judah · and in/at days of · Jeroboam · son of · Joash · king of · Israel

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Counted here from the morphology-tagged text of Hosea — nouns, verbs and adjectives only, so the article, conjunctions, prepositions and pronouns are left out. Each word opens its full lexicon entry and every verse it appears in.

  1. יהוה H3068 Yᵉhôvâh LORD 46
  2. יִשְׂרָאֵל H3478 Yisrâʼêl Israel 44
  3. אֶפְרַ֫יִם H669 ʼEphrayim Ephraim 37
  4. יוֹם H3117 yôwm day 28
  5. הָיָה H1961 hâyâh to be 27
  6. אֱלֹהִים H430 ʼĕlôhîym God 26
  7. בֵּן H1121 bên son 24
  8. כֹּל H3605 kôl all 22
  9. אָמַר H559 ʼâmar to say 22
  10. שׁוּב H7725 shûwb to return 22
  11. אֶ֫רֶץ H776 ʼerets land 20
  12. מֶ֫לֶךְ H4428 melek king 19

About this book

  • 14 Chapters
  • 197 Verses
  • 2,386 Hebrew words
  • 722 Distinct lemmas

Hosea is part of the Hebrew Old Testament and contains 14 chapters in the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Every chapter on this site is browseable verse by verse, with each verse showing the original Hebrew text alongside transliteration, Strong's number, concise gloss, and parsing (part of speech, stem, person, gender, number, state). Pick a chapter above to begin.

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