Hosea 14:5
Old Testament • 8 words with Strong's data
"I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon."
Word-by-Word Analysis
יִשְׂרָאֵל
Yisrâʼêl
Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
צָמַח
tsâmach
to sprout (transitive or intransitive, literal or figurative)
שׁוּשַׁן
shûwshan
a lily (from its whiteness), as aflower of architectural ornament; also a (straight) trumpet (from the tubular shape)
שָׁלַךְ
shâlak
to throw out, down or away (literally or figuratively)
יָצָא
yâtsâʼ
to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim.
שֶׁרֶשׁ
sheresh
a root (literally or figuratively)
לְבָנוֹן
Lᵉbânôwn
Lebanon, a mountain range in Palestine
Key Terms in This Verse
שׁוּשַׁן shûwshan
a lily (from its whiteness), as aflower of architectural ornament; also a (straight) trumpet (from the tubular shape)
Study H7799 →צָמַח tsâmach
to sprout (transitive or intransitive, literal or figurative)
Study H6779 →יָצָא yâtsâʼ
to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim.
Study H3318 →יִשְׂרָאֵל Yisrâʼêl
Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
Study H3478 →Cross References
It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the exce...
He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.
That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.
And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring:
And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the LORD, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men.
And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:
And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.
There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.
Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.
For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
The king’s wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.
Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
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