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hosea
/ˌhoʊˈziːə/
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What does hosea mean?
proper noun
- A book of the Old Testament of the Bible.
- A prophet.
- A male given name from Hebrew.
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The suggestion, for example, that Ezekiel and Hosea are demoralizing because of certain expressions is too absurd for refutation.
Thus He betrothes her unto Himself "in faithfulness, in righteousness, and in judgment, and in loving-kindness, and in mercies" (Hosea ii.
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Mrs. Hussey wore a polished necklace of codfish vertebra; and Hosea Hussey had his account books bound in superior old shark-skin.
Of the Prophets, the most ancient, are Sophoniah, Jonas, Amos, Hosea, Isaiah and Michaiah, who lived in the time of Amaziah, and Azariah, otherwise Ozias, Kings of Judah.
Among the mass of scriptural texts most remote from any possible bearing on the subject one was employed which was equally cogent against any use of healing means in any disease--the words of Hosea: "He hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up."