Questions tagged [hosea-hoshea]
Hoshea ben Beeri was the first of 4 prophets (others were Amos Yeshaya and Micha) to prophesise during the reign of Uzia, Yosam, Achaz and Chizkia and was a teacher of Yeshaya.
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Yehu punished for Yizre'el?
Hoshea 1:3-5:
"So he went and married Gomer the daughter of Divlayim, and she conceived and bore him a son. HASHEM said to him," Call him Yizre'el; because in only a short time I will punish the ...
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Tribe of Hoshea Ben Eileh
What tribe was Hoshea Ben Eilah, the last king of Malchus Yisrael, from?
Seder Hadoros says he was from Reuven, but in the same sentence it says that in his days Zechus Avos stopped. The thing is ...
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Covenant (Brit) with Adam?
Hosea 6:7 says:
וְהֵמָּה, כְּאָדָם עָבְרוּ בְרִית; שָׁם, בָּגְדוּ בִי.
Which could be (and is) translated either as "They, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant," or "They, like men, have ...
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Why do we say pesukim from Hoshea after donning tefillin?
In the standard Artscroll Ashkenazik siddur, after wrapping the tefillin around one's fingers it says to say the following pesukim from Hoshea 2:21-22
וְאֵרַשְׂתִּיךְ לִי, לְעוֹלָם; וְאֵרַשְׂתִּיךְ ...
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Usage of the term Baali
In Hosea 2:18, if G-d was called "Baali," does this allude to the concept that God was perceived as a bull as Baal was portrayed in Ugaritic texts?
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Why was Hosea acceptable to the people if he took his adulterous wife back?
Hosea is described by Rabbi Yochanan in Pesachim 87a as the greatest of the four major prophets. At G-d's command (Hosea 1:2), he married a prostitute, Gomer, and fathered children, although there ...
