Study it in the app“The beginning of what YHWH spoke through Hosea. And YHWH said to Hosea: Go, take for yourself a woman of prostitutions and children of prostitutions, for the land is utterly prostituting itself, turning away from following YHWH.”
The beginningתְּחִלַּתof what YHWH spokeדִּבֶּר יְהוָהthrough Hosea.בְּהוֹשֵׁעַAnd YHWH saidוַיֹּאמֶר יְהוָהto Hosea:אֶל הוֹשֵׁעַGo,לֵךְtakeקַחfor yourselfלְךָa womanאֵשֶׁתof prostitutionsזְנוּנִיםand childrenוְיַלְדֵיof prostitutions,זְנוּנִיםforכִּיthe landהָאָרֶץis utterly prostituting itself,זָנֹה תִזְנֶהturning away from followingמֵאַחֲרֵיYHWH.יְהוָה
beginning
Beginning, start; "at first".
Where else “techilat” appearsspeak
To speak, say something; above all God to his people.
Where else “diber” appearsYHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appearsHoshea
Hoshea, the first name of Joshua son of Nun; other men bear it later, among them the prophet Hosea. It means "salvation" or "deliverer."
Where else “hoshea” appearssay
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomer” appearsgo
To head for a place, to leave where one is in order to reach another.
Where else “lech” appearstake a wife
"Take a wife": to marry.
Where else “kach” appearswife
Literally "his woman": the one married to him.
Where else “eshet” appearsprostitution
Prostitution; figuratively, unfaithfulness to God.
Where else “zenunim” appearsson
A son or daughter of someone; his direct offspring.
Where else “yalde” appearspeople
The people who live on the earth.
Where else “arets” appearsbe unfaithful
To be unfaithful to YHWH by going after other gods.
Where else “zano” appears1The word of YHWH that came to Hosea son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam son of Joash, king of Israel.
2 · This verse (above)
3So he went and took Gomer, daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.
