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Therefore,לָכֵןlook,הִנֵּהIאָנֹכִיam going to entice herמְפַתֶּיהָand lead herוְהֹלַכְתִּיהָinto the wilderness,הַמִּדְבָּרand speakוְדִבַּרְתִּיto her heart.עַל לִבָּהּ
Hosea 2:14
Study it in the app“Therefore, look, I am going to entice her and lead her into the wilderness, and speak to her heart.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Hosea 2:14, word by word
- am going to entice herמְפַתֶּיmefate
entice
To win someone over by trickery.
Where else “mefate” appears- and lead herהֹלַכְתִּיholachti
lead
To lead someone to another place, or to bring him along.
Where else “holachti” appears- into the wildernessמִּדְבָּרmidbar
wilderness
Dry, unfarmed land where flocks graze.
Where else “midbar” appears- and speakדִבַּרְתִּיdibarti
speak
To speak, say something; above all God to his people.
Where else “dibarti” appears- to her heartלִבָּliba
heart
The deepest part of a person: where they think, feel and decide.
Where else “liba” appears
The context
13And I will call her to account for the days of the Baals, to which she burned incense to them, and adorned herself with her ring and her jewelry, and went after her lovers, and me she forgot, declares YHWH.
14 · This verse (above)
15And I will give her her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor as a door of hope; and she will respond there as in the days of her youth, and as on the day she came up from the land of Egypt.