Hosea 14:4
Old Testament • 8 words with Strong's data
"I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him."
Word-by-Word Analysis
רָפָא
râphâʼ
properly, to mend (by stitching), i.e. (figuratively) to cure
אָהַב
ʼâhab
to have affection for (sexually or otherwise)
אַף
ʼaph
properly, the nose or nostril; hence, the face, and occasionally a person; also (from the rapid breathing in passion) ire
הָפַךְ
hâphak
to turn about or over; by implication, to change, overturn, return, pervert
סוּר
çûwr
to turn off (literal or figurative)
Key Terms in This Verse
אַף ʼaph
properly, the nose or nostril; hence, the face, and occasionally a person; also (from the rapid breathing in passion) ire
Study H639 →הָפַךְ hâphak
to turn about or over; by implication, to change, overturn, return, pervert
Study H2015 →Cross References
I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.
Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God.
And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me.
Come, 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.
The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.
O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name’s sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.
Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.
And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put n...
Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,
And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.
Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israe...
Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel.
Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.
Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: becau...
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