Study it in the app“And she will pursue her lovers, but she will not overtake them; and she will seek them, but she will not find them; and she will say, “I will go and return to my husband, the first, for it was better for me then than now.””
And she will pursueוְרִדְּפָהher lovers,מְאַהֲבֶיהָbut she will notוְלֹאovertakeתַשִּׂיגthem;אֹתָםand she will seek them,וּבִקְשָׁתַםbut she will notוְלֹאfind them;תִמְצָאand she will say,וְאָמְרָה“I will goאֵלְכָהand returnוְאָשׁוּבָהto my husband,אֶל אִישִׁיthe first,הָרִאשׁוֹןforכִּיit was betterטוֹבfor meלִיthenאָזthan now.”מֵעָתָּה
pursue
To go after someone to catch them.
Where else “ridfa” appearslover
One who loves another: the faithful friend or the lover.
Where else “meahave” appearsovertake
To reach someone who is ahead.
Where else “tasig” appearsseek
To go after someone or something in order to find it.
Where else “vikshata” appearsfind
To come upon what one seeks, or something not expected.
Where else “timtsa” appearssay
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “amra” appearsgo
To head for a place, to leave where one is in order to reach another.
Where else “elcha” appearsreturn
To go back to a place.
Where else “ashuva” appearshusband
Literally "her man": the one married to her.
Where else “ishi” appearsfirst
What comes ahead in order or in time; the first.
Where else “rishon” appearsbetter
Worth more or more profitable than something it is compared with.
Where else “tov” appears6Therefore, look, I am hedging up your way with thorns, and I will build her wall, and she will not find her paths.
7 · This verse (above)
8But she did not know that I gave her the grain and the new wine and the oil, and multiplied for her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.
