or elseפֶּןI will strip herאַפְשִׁיטֶנָּהnakedעֲרֻמָּהand set her outוְהִצַּגְתִּיהָas on the dayכְּיוֹםshe was born,הִוָּלְדָהּand make herוְשַׂמְתִּיהָlike the wilderness,כַמִּדְבָּרand leave herוְשַׁתִּהָlike a landכְּאֶרֶץthat is dry,צִיָּהand kill herוַהֲמִתִּיהָwith thirst.בַּצָּמָא
Hosea 2:3
Study it in the app“or else I will strip her naked and set her out as on the day she was born, and make her like the wilderness, and leave her like a land that is dry, and kill her with thirst.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Hosea 2:3, word by word
- I will strip herאַפְשִׁיטֶafshite
strip
To take off clothes, or strip another.
Where else “afshite” appears- nakedעֲרֻמָּהaruma
naked
Naked.
Where else “aruma” appears- and set her outהִצַּגְתִּיhitsagti
set, place
Set, place, leave in position.
Where else “hitsagti” appears- as on the dayיוֹםyom
day
The day, the hours of light, or a whole day.
Where else “yom” appears- she was bornהִוָּלְדָhivalda
be born
To come into the world, to begin to live.
Where else “hivalda” appears- and make herשַׂמְתִּיsamti
make
To turn something into another: "I will turn him into a nation".
Where else “samti” appears- like the wildernessמִּדְבָּרmidbar
wilderness
Dry, unfarmed land where flocks graze.
Where else “midbar” appears- and leave herשַׁתִּshati
make
To turn someone into something.
Where else “shati” appears- like a landאֶרֶץerets
land
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “erets” appears- that is dryצִיָּהtsiya
drought, dry land
Dryness; dry land, desert.
Where else “tsiya” appears- and kill herהֲמִתִּיhamiti
kill
To kill someone.
Where else “hamiti” appears- with thirstצָּמָאtsama
thirst
Thirst.
Where else “tsama” appears
The context
2Contend with your mother, contend, for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband; and let her remove her prostitutions from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;
3 · This verse (above)
4And on her children I will not have compassion, for they are children of prostitutions.