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# הוֹשֵׁעַ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1954

**Hosea** — used 16 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Hosea [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1954/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

הוֹשֵׁעַ²: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1954/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (salvation; on form, cf. הַשְׁמֵד, הַמְשֵׁל; on pronunciation v. HptZA ii, 261 Anm. 2 JägerBAS i, 468)— orig. name of Joshua according to Nu 13:8, 16 (P), 𝔊 Αυση, cf. Dt 32:44 (J; prob. error, v. Dr), 𝔊 Ιησους, v. יְהוֹשׁוּעַ p. 221 supr. last king of Israel 2 K 15:30; 17:1, 3, 4, 6; 18:1, 9, 10, 𝔊 Ωσηε. the prophet Hosea Ho 1:1, 2(×2), 𝔊 Ωσηε. an Ephraimite chief under David 1 Ch 27:20, 𝔊 Ωση(ε). a chief under Nehemiah Ne 10:24, 𝔊 Ωσηθα, Ωσηε.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 15 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Hoshea (13); Hosea (3).

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 10:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.10.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.10.24/#tree)

הוֹשֵׁ֥עַ חֲנַנְיָ֖ה חַשּֽׁוּב׃

*Word for word:* Hoshea Hananiah Hasshub

*JPS 1917:* Hoshea, Hananiah, Hasshub;

[Numbers 13:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.13.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.13.8/#tree)

לְמַטֵּ֥ה אֶפְרָ֖יִם הוֹשֵׁ֥עַ בִּן־נֽוּן׃

*Word for word:* for the.tribe of.Ephraim Hoshea the.son of.Nun

*JPS 1917:* Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1954.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1954/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).