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HebrewH1954Proper Noun (Masculine)

הוֹשֵׁעַ

ho.she.a

14Occurrences
H1954Strong's #
Proper Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Hoshea, the name of five Israelites

from H3467 (יָשַׁע); deliverer;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A king of the Kingdom of Israel, living at the time of Divided Monarchy, first mentioned at ; son of: Elah (H0425I) § Hosea or Hoshea or Oshea = "salvation" 1) family name of Joshua, the son of ) the 19th and last king of the northern kingdom of Israel 3) son of Beeri, and the first of the minor prophets; prophet to the northern kingdom of Israel in the reign of Jeroboam II 4) a son of Azaziah, a chief of Ephraim in the time of ) an Israelite chief who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Proper Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

N:N-M-P

Full Description

Proper Noun, Masculine

Occurrences

הוֹשֵׁעַ appears 14 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

2 Kings
8
Hosea
2
Numbers
2
1 Chronicles
1
Deuteronomy
1

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 27:20BSB

over the Ephraimites was Hoshea son of Azaziah;over one of the half-tribes of Manasseh was Joel son of Pedaiah;

2 Kings 17:1BSB

In the twelfth year of the reign of Ahaz over Judah, Hoshea son of Elah became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria nine years.

2 Kings 17:4BSB

But the king of Assyria discovered that Hoshea had conspired to send envoys to King So of Egypt, and that he had not paid tribute to the king of Assyria as in previous years. Therefore the king of Assyria arrested Hoshea and put him in prison.

2 Kings 18:1BSB

In the third year of the reign of Hoshea son of Elah over Israel, Hezekiah son of Ahaz became king of Judah.

2 Kings 18:10BSB

And at the end of three years, the Assyrians captured it.So Samaria was captured in the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.