Hosea 13:3

“Therefore they will be like a morning cloud, and like the dew that goes away early, like chaff that is swept by the storm from the threshing floor, and like smoke from a window.”

Hosea 13:3 · direct translation from the Hebrew
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Hosea 13:3, word by word

they will beיִהְיוּyihyu

be

To be: "I will be their Elohim".

Where else “yihyu” appears
like a morningבֹּקֶרboker

morning

Morning, dawn.

Where else “boker” appears
cloudעֲנַןanan

cloud

A mass of vapor in the sky that gives shade, brings rain or covers the light.

Where else “anan” appears
and like the dewטַּלtal

dew

Dew: the moisture of the night, which in a dry land keeps the plants alive.

Where else “tal” appears
that goes awayהֹלֵךְholech

go

To move on foot from place to place; to set out.

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earlyמַשְׁכִּיםmashkim

rise early

To get up early to do something.

Where else “mashkim” appears
like chaffמֹץmots

chaff

Chaff: the husk of grain, which the wind carries away at winnowing.

Where else “mots” appears
that is swept by the stormיְסֹעֵרyesoer

storm, be agitated

Be stirred violently, like the sea or the wind in a storm. It is also said of a person greatly troubled within: in 2 Kings 6:11 "the heart of the king of Aram was stormy." From the same root comes "storm."

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from the threshing floorגֹּרֶןgoren

threshing floor

Threshing floor: flat ground where grain is threshed; also any open, level place.

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and like smokeעָשָׁןashan

smoke

Smoke.

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from a windowאֲרֻבָּהaruba

window

An opening in a house wall through which light and air come in.

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The context

2And now they keep sinning, and they have made for themselves a cast image from their silver, idols according to their understanding, the work of craftsmen, all of it; to them they say, “Those who sacrifice human beings, let them kiss calves.”

3 · This verse (above)

4But I am YHWH your Elohim from the land of Egypt; and a god besides me you do not know, and there is no savior except me.

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