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Hosea 5 — Sermon Preparation
Below is a research summary for Hosea 5, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 15
- verses
- 179 / 113
- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 21
- classic sermon excerpts
- 6
- preachers & commentators
Hosea 5 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אֶפְרַיִם | ʼEphrayim | H669 | 9 | Ephrajim |
| יְהוּדָה | Yᵉhûwdâh | H3063 | 5 | Jehudah |
| מָזוֹר | mâzôwr | H4205 | 2 | bandage, remedy |
| יָלַךְ | yâlak | H3212 | 4 | walk, carry |
| בֵּית אָוֶן | Bêyth ʼÂven | H1007 | 2 | Beth-Aven |
| יָדַע | yâdaʻ | H3045 | 3 | know, seeing |
| כָּשַׁל | kâshal | H3782 | 2 | totter, waver |
How preachers through history handled this text
21 public-domain excerpts on Hosea 5, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“15. I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early. 15. Ibo, revertar ad locum meum, donex agnoscant se peccasse (ad verbum est, peccare,) et quaerant faciem meam: ubi fuerit ipsis afflictio, properabunt ad me (vel, me quaerent.) The word schr, shicker, signifies the morning: hence the verb means, "to seek early," or, "to rise early," as men do when they apply themselves diligently to anything: but in many places of Scripture it is taken simply in the sense of …”
— Calvin, Commentary on Hosea, on Hosea 5:15–30 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Mizpah 1 — Hos 5:1
- Mount Tabor — Hos 5:1
- Assyria — Hos 5:13
- Shittim — Hos 5:2
- Beth-aven 2 — Hos 5:8
- Gibeah 1 — Hos 5:8
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