Hosea 6
Study sheet, King James Version, with the original-language words this chapter turns on.
The text
1Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
2After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
3Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.
4O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.
5Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth.
6For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
7But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
8Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.
9And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.
10I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
11Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.
Words in this chapter
Definitions are Strong's own wording from his Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Counts are how often each word appears in this chapter, from the tagged text.
- כִּיkîyH35883× in this chapter
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
- עָשָׂהʻâsâhH62133× in this chapter
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
- הָלַךְhâlakH19802× in this chapter
to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
- חָיָהchâyâhH24212× in this chapter
to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive
- חֵסֵדchêçêdH26172× in this chapter
kindness; by implication (towards God) piety; rarely (by opposition) reproof, or (subject.) beauty
- יָדַעyâdaʻH30452× in this chapter
to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively, instruction, designation, punishment, etc.)
- יְהוּדָהYᵉhûwdâhH30632× in this chapter
Jehudah (or Judah), the name of five Israelites; also of the tribe descended from the first, and of its territory
- יְהֹוָהYᵉhôvâhH30682× in this chapter
Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
- יוֹםyôwmH31172× in this chapter
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
- יִשְׂרָאֵלYisrâʼêlH34782× in this chapter
Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
- מָהmâhH41002× in this chapter
properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively, that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjunctive senses
- אֶפְרַיִםʼEphrayimH6692× in this chapter
Ephrajim, a son of Joseph; also the tribe descended from him, and its territory
- שׁוּבshûwbH77252× in this chapter
to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); generally to retreat; often adverbial, again
- שָׁםshâmH80332× in this chapter
there (transferring to time) then; often thither, or thence
- בַּיִתbayithH10041× in this chapter
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
- אָדָםʼÂdâmH1211× in this chapter
Adam the name of the first man, also of a place in Palestine
- בֹּקֶרbôqerH12421× in this chapter
properly, dawn (as the break of day); generally, morning
- בְּרִיתbᵉrîythH12851× in this chapter
a compact (because made by passing between pieces of flesh)
- גְּדוּדgᵉdûwdH14161× in this chapter
a crowd (especially of soldiers)
- גִּלְעָדGilʻâdH15681× in this chapter
Gilad, a region East of the Jordan; also the name of three Israelites
- גַּםgamH15711× in this chapter
properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and
- גֶּשֶׁםgeshemH16531× in this chapter
a shower
- דָּםdâmH18181× in this chapter
blood (as that which when shed causes death) of man or an animal; by analogy, the juice of the grape; figuratively (especially in the plural) bloodshed (i.e. drops of blood)
- דַּעַתdaʻathH18471× in this chapter
knowledge
- דֶּרֶךְderekH18701× in this chapter
a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
- הוּאhûwʼH19311× in this chapter
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demonstrative) this or that; occasionally (instead of copula) as or are
- הֵםhêmH19921× in this chapter
they (only used when emphatic)
- הָרַגhâragH20261× in this chapter
to smite with deadly intent
- אָוֶןʼâvenH2051× in this chapter
strictly nothingness; also trouble. vanity, wickedness; specifically an idol
- זֶבַחzebachH20771× in this chapter
properly, a slaughter, i.e. the flesh of an animal; by implication, a sacrifice (the victim or the act)
- זִמָּהzimmâhH21541× in this chapter
a plan, especially a bad one
- אוֹרʼôwrH2161× in this chapter
illumination or (concrete) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.)
- זְנוּתzᵉnûwthH21841× in this chapter
adultery, i.e. (figuratively) infidelity, idolatry
- חֲבַרchăbarH22691× in this chapter
an associate
- חָבַשׁchâbashH22801× in this chapter
to wrap firmly (especially a turban, compress, or saddle); figuratively, to stop, to rule
- חָכָהchâkâhH24421× in this chapter
properly, to adhere to; hence, to await
- חָפֵץchâphêtsH26541× in this chapter
properly, to incline to; by implication (literally but rarely) to bend; figuratively, to be pleased with, desire
- חָצַבchâtsabH26721× in this chapter
to cut or carve (wood, stone or other material); by implication, to hew, split, square, quarry, engrave
- טַלṭalH29191× in this chapter
dew (as covering vegetation)
- טָמֵאṭâmêʼH29301× in this chapter
to be foul, especially in a ceremial or moral sense (contaminated)