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US
/hoʊˈsiə, hoʊˈzeɪə/
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NOUN
- a minor Hebrew prophet (8th century BC)
- an Old Testament book telling Hosea's prophecies
How To Use Hosea In A Sentence
- By "here," Valentina told us she meant "Khoseni," a "country" (tiko) that exists on neither colonial - nor postcolonial-era administrative maps but whose remembered territorythe area ruled by Khosa chiefs in precolonial timesencompasses all of the critical sites of Valentina's life story: her birthplace and childhood homes (Xisangwana, Nyongane, Makuvulane); where she married (Timanguene); and the place she "was shown" when as a widow with two young daughters she moved to Facazisse, a place she choseand where she feels doubly securebecause of her lifelong association with (and marriage into) the Swiss Mission church. Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
- A chanter sings the prophecy of Hosea; the Tract follows; the Penitentiary reads the prayer; the Deacon sings flectamus genua, the subdeacon Levate and reads a lesson form the book of Exodus. More Rare Images: Good Friday with Pius XI in the Sistine Chapel
- The Baptist is Elias, as our Saviour was David; that is, the antitype, Jeremiah 30: 9; Malachi 4: 5; Hosea 3: 5, &c. From the Talmud and Hebraica
- C. Hosea was in a state of estrangement with his wife Gomer.
- Yet it was through this situation that Hosea learned a lesson that God wanted him to deliver to Israel: Though the people were unfaithful, God would remain faithful.
- In order therefore that he may fulfil the precept, and not covet, he is constrained to despair of himself and to seek elsewhere and through another the help which he cannot find in himself; as it is said, O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in Me is thine help (Hosea xiii. Concerning Christian Liberty
- Hosea 9: 14 give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. What Do Declining Abortion Rates Mean for Crime in the Future? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
- In words that echo Amos, Hosea, and Isaiah, the people are adjured to ‘do justice, love kindness, and walk humbly’ with their God.
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- In Hosea, the sexual images are equally clear and far less strident.