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So he wentוַיֵּלֶךְand tookוַיִּקַּחGomer,גֹּמֶרdaughterבַּתof Diblaim,דִּבְלָיִםand she conceivedוַתַּהַרand boreוַתֵּלֶדhimלוֹa son.בֵּן
Hosea 1:3
Study it in the app“So he went and took Gomer, daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Hosea 1:3, word by word
- So he wentיֵּלֶךְyelech
go
To head for a place, to leave where one is in order to reach another.
Where else “yelech” appears- and tookיִּקַּחyikach
take a wife
"Take a wife": to marry.
Where else “yikach” appears- Gomerגֹּמֶרgomer
Gomer
Gomer, a son of Japheth and the people that came from him; also the wife of the prophet Hosea.
Where else “gomer” appears- daughterבַּתbat
daughter
A girl or woman born of her parents, who belongs to her father's house.
Where else “bat” appears- of Diblaimדִּבְלָיִםdivlayim
Diblaim
"Diblaim": the father of Gomer, Hosea's wife; the name means "two cakes of figs".
Where else “divlayim” appears- and she conceivedתַּהַרtahar
conceive
Become pregnant, conceive; figuratively, conceive a plan.
Where else “tahar” appears- and boreתֵּלֶדteled
bear
To bring a child into the world, giving birth after pregnancy.
Where else “teled” appears- a sonבֵּןben
son
The male born of a father and mother; in the plural, also sons and daughters.
Where else “ben” appears
The context
2The 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.
3 · This verse (above)
4And YHWH said to him: Call his name Jezreel, for in just a little while I will call the house of Jehu to account for the blood of Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.