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Hosea 3

Hos. 3:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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So I bought
karah (Hebrew #3739)
to purchase
KJV usage: buy, prepare.
Pronounce: kaw-raw'
Origin: usually assigned as a primitive root, but probably only a special application of 3738 (through the common idea of planning implied in a bargain)
her to me for fifteen
chamesh (Hebrew #2568)
a primitive numeral; five
KJV usage: fif(-teen), fifth, five (X apiece).
Pronounce: khaw-maysh'
Origin: masculine chamishshah {kham-ish-shaw}
`asar (Hebrew #6240)
ten (only in combination), i.e. -teen; also (ordinal) -teenth
KJV usage: (eigh-, fif-, four-, nine-, seven-, six-, thir-)teen(-th), + eleven(-th), + sixscore thousand, + twelve(-th).
Pronounce: aw-sawr'
Origin: for 6235
pieces of silver
keceph (Hebrew #3701)
silver (from its pale color); by implication, money
KJV usage: money, price, silver(-ling).
Pronounce: keh'-sef
Origin: from 3700
, and for an homer
chomer (Hebrew #2563)
properly, a bubbling up, i.e. of water, a wave; of earth, mire or clay (cement); also a heap; hence, a chomer or dry measure
KJV usage: clay, heap, homer, mire, motion.
Pronounce: kho'mer
Origin: from 2560
of barley
s`orah (Hebrew #8184)
and (masculine meaning the grain); also s or {seh-ore'}; or s-owr {seh-ore'}; from 8175 in the sense of roughness; barley (as villose)
KJV usage: barley.
Pronounce: seh-o-raw'
Origin: or snowrah {seh-o-raw'} (feminine meaning the plant)
, and an δhalf homer
lethek (Hebrew #3963)
a measure for things dry
KJV usage: half homer.
Pronounce: leh'-thek
Origin: from an unused root of uncertain meaning
of barley
s`orah (Hebrew #8184)
and (masculine meaning the grain); also s or {seh-ore'}; or s-owr {seh-ore'}; from 8175 in the sense of roughness; barley (as villose)
KJV usage: barley.
Pronounce: seh-o-raw'
Origin: or snowrah {seh-o-raw'} (feminine meaning the plant)
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δ
lethech.

More on:

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Barley,
Dowry,
Homer,
Pieces of Gold or of Silver,
Silver

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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I bought.
Gen. 31:41• 41Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times. (Gen. 31:41)
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Gen. 34:12• 12Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife. (Gen. 34:12)
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Ex. 22:17• 17If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins. (Ex. 22:17)
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1 Sam. 18:25• 25And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies. But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines. (1 Sam. 18:25)
an homer.
Lev. 27:16• 16And if a man shall sanctify unto the Lord some part of a field of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the seed thereof: an homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver. (Lev. 27:16)
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Isa. 5:10• 10Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah. (Isa. 5:10)
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Ezek. 45:11• 11The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer. (Ezek. 45:11)
half homer.
Heb. lethech.
• The purchase-money, half in barley, half in money, is that of a female slave. (“Hosea 3” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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So I bought her to me for fifteen silver pieces, and for a homer of barley, and a half-homero of barley.

JND Translation Notes

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* Half-homer is lethec = 15 seahs. A seah is about a peck. see Ex. 16.36; 1 Kings 18.32.