Hosea 2:3

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.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
strip	אַפְשִׁיטֶ֣נָּה 'af.shi.Te.nah	H6584	to spread out (i.e. deploy in hostile array) · verb, hiphil imperfect, 1st person common singular + pronominal suffix, 3rd person feminine singular
naked	עֲרֻמָּ֔ה 'a.ru.Mah	H6174	nude · adjective, feminine singular absolute
set	וְהִ֨צַּגְתִּ֔יהָ ve.Hi.tzag.Ti.ha	H3322	to place permanently · conjunction + verb, hiphil sequential perfect, 1st person common singular + pronominal suffix, 3rd person feminine singular
day	כְּי֖וֹם ke.Yom	H3117	a day (as the warm hours) · preposition + noun, common masculine singular construct
born	הִוָּֽלְדָ֑הּ hi.val.Dah	H3205	to bear young · verb, niphal infinitive construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person feminine singular
make	וְשַׂמְתִּ֣יהָ ve.sam.Ti.ha	H7760	to put (used in a great variety of applications · conjunction + verb, qal sequential perfect, 1st person common singular + pronominal suffix, 3rd person feminine singular
wilderness	כַמִּדְבָּ֗ר kha.mid.Bar	H4057	a pasture (i.e. open field · preposition with the article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
set	וְשַׁתִּ֙הָ֙ ve.sha.Ti.ha	H7896	to place (in a very wide application) · conjunction + verb, qal sequential perfect, 1st person common singular + pronominal suffix, 3rd person feminine singular
dry	צִיָּ֔ה tzi.Yah	H6723	aridity · noun, common feminine singular absolute
land	כְּאֶ֣רֶץ ke.'E.retz	H776	the earth (at large · preposition + noun, common feminine singular construct
slay	וַהֲמִתִּ֖יהָ va.ha.mi.Ti.ha	H4191	to die (literally or figuratively) · conjunction + verb, hiphil sequential perfect, 1st person common singular + pronominal suffix, 3rd person feminine singular
thirst	בַּצָּמָֽא ba.tza.Ma'	H6772	thirst (literally or figuratively) · preposition with the article + noun, common masculine singular absolute

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Cross-references

Ezekiel 16:22 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 poll…
Isaiah 32:13-14 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:
Jeremiah 13:22 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…
Ezekiel 19:13 And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground.
Amos 8:11-13 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hear…
Exodus 17:3 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…
Jeremiah 22:6 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 wild…
Judges 15:18 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 shal…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Hosea 2:1-5

The first words of this chapter some make the close of the foregoing chapter, and add them to the promises which we have here of the great things God would do for them. When they shall have appointed Christ their head, and centered in him, then let them say to one another, with triumph and exultation (let the prophets say it to them, so the Chaldee - Comfort you, comfort you, my people, is now their commission), "say to them, Ammi, and Ruhamah; call them so again, for they shall no longer lie under the reproach and doom of Lo-ammi and Lo-ruhamah; they shall now be my people again, and shall obtain mercy." God's spiritual Israel, made up of Jews and Gentiles without distinction, shall call on…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Hosea 2:3

set her as in the day . . . born-- (Eze 16:4; Eze 23:25-26, Eze 23:28-29). The day of her political "birth" was when God delivered her from the bondage of Egypt, and set up the theocracy. make her as a wilderness-- (Jer 6:8; Zep 2:13). Translate, "make her as the wilderness," namely, that in which she passed forty years on her way to her goodly possession of Canaan. With this agrees the mention of "thirst" (compare Jer 2:6).

John Gill on Hosea 2:3

Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born,.... Alluding to the case of an infant when born, which comes naked into the world; and referring to the state and condition of the Israelites in Egypt, which was the time of their nativity, as a people and church; see Ezekiel 16:4, and when they were in a state of servitude and bondage, and had no wealth and substance, and without possessions and lands, and had no country of their own to inhabit; and signifying that this should be their case again, if they persisted in their idolatry, impenitence, and unbelief; as has been the case of the ten tribes upon their captivity, when they were stripped of all their wealth and riche…

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John Calvin on Hosea 2:3

Dictionary and topics

Fornication — In every form of it was sternly condemned by the Mosaic law (Lev. 21:9; 19:29; Deut. 22:20, 21, 23-29; 23:18; Ex. 22:16). (See ADULTERY.) But this word is more frequently used in a symbolical than in…
Deserts · Illustrative of: Those deprived of blessings — Illustrative of: Those deprived of blessings
Israel, Prophecies Concerning · .Of — .Of

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Hosea 2:3

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Hosea 2:1-5

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Hosea 2:3

John Gill on Hosea 2:3

John Calvin on Hosea 2:3

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Hosea 2:3

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Hosea 2:1-5

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Hosea 2:3

John Gill on Hosea 2:3

John Calvin on Hosea 2:3

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Keil & Delitzsch on Hosea 2:2-3

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Hosea 2:3

Rashi on Hosea 2:3