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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.

Calvin 15 Spurgeon 2 Jonathan Edwards 1 Matthew Henry 1 Alexander MacLaren 1 John Wesley 1

“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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