Hosea 2:3

Old Testament • 14 words with Strong's data

"Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst."

Word-by-Word Analysis

בִּלְתִּי

biltîy

H1115

properly, a failure of, i.e. (used only as a negative particle, usually with a prepositional prefix) not, except, without, unless, besides, because no...

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פָּשַׁט

pâshaṭ

H6584

to spread out (i.e. deploy in hostile array); by analogy, to strip (i.e. unclothe, plunder, flay, etc.)

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her

עָרוֹם

ʻârôwm

H6174

nude, either partially or totally

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and

שׂוּם

sûwm

H7760

to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)

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her as in the

יוֹם

yôwm

H3117

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 asso...

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that she was

יָלַד

yâlad

H3205

to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage

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and

עָשָׂה

ʻâsâh

H6213

to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application

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her as a

מִדְבָּר

midbâr

H4057

a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs)

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and

שׂוּם

sûwm

H7760

to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)

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her

דָּמָה

dâmâh

H1819

to compare; by implication, to resemble, liken, consider

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a

יַבָּשָׁה

yabbâshâh

H3004

dry ground

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אֶרֶץ

ʼerets

H776

the earth (at large, or partitively a land)

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הָרַג

hârag

H2026

to smite with deadly intent

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her with

צָמָא

tsâmâʼ

H6772

thirst (literally or figuratively)

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Key Terms in This Verse

strip H6584

פָּשַׁט pâshaṭ

to spread out (i.e. deploy in hostile array); by analogy, to strip (i.e. unclothe, plunder, flay, etc.)

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thirst H6772

צָמָא tsâmâʼ

thirst (literally or figuratively)

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naked H6174

עָרוֹם ʻârôwm

nude, either partially or totally

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dry H3004

יַבָּשָׁה yabbâshâh

dry ground

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slay H2026

הָרַג hârag

to smite with deadly intent

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born H3205

יָלַד yâlad

to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage

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Lest H1115

בִּלְתִּי biltîy

properly, a failure of, i.e. (used only as a negative particle, usually with a prepositional prefix) not, except, without, unless, besides, because not, until, etc.

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wilderness H4057

מִדְבָּר midbâr

a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs)

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like H1819

דָּמָה dâmâh

to compare; by implication, to resemble, liken, consider

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set H7760

שׂוּם sûwm

to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)

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Cross References

Ezekiel 16:22 cross-reference

And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.

Exodus 17:3 cross-reference

And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with t...

Ezekiel 19:13 cross-reference

And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground.

Jeremiah 13:22 cross-reference

And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered, and thy heels made bare.

Revelation 17:16 cross-reference

And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.

Isaiah 33:9 cross-reference

The earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.

Isaiah 64:10 cross-reference

Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

Jeremiah 2:31 cross-reference

O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?

Judges 15:18 cross-reference

And he was sore athirst, and called on the LORD, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant: and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumci...

Jeremiah 22:6 cross-reference

For thus saith the LORD unto the king’s house of Judah; Thou art Gilead unto me, and the head of Lebanon: yet surely I will make thee a wilderness, and cities which are not inhabited.

Jeremiah 51:43 cross-reference

Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.

Jeremiah 2:6 cross-reference

Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shado...

Jeremiah 12:10 cross-reference

Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.

Jeremiah 4:26 cross-reference

I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger.

Jeremiah 13:26 cross-reference

Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may appear.

Jeremiah 17:6 cross-reference

For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.

Isaiah 47:3 cross-reference

Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man.

Hosea 2:10 cross-reference

And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand.

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