Hosea 1:3

3 So he married Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.

Hosea 1:3 in Other Translations

King James Version (KJV)
3 So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; which conceived, and bare him a son.
English Standard Version (ESV)
3 So he went and took Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.
New Living Translation (NLT)
3 So Hosea married Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, and she became pregnant and gave Hosea a son.
The Message Bible (MSG)
3 Hosea did it. He picked Gomer daughter of Diblaim. She got pregnant and gave him a son.
American Standard Version (ASV)
3 So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; and she conceived, and bare him a son.
GOD'S WORD Translation (GW)
3 So Hosea married Gomer, daughter of Diblaim. She became pregnant and had a son.
Holman Christian Standard Bible (CSB)
3 So he went and married Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.
New International Reader's Version (NIRV)
3 So I married Gomer. She was the daughter of Diblaim. Gomer became pregnant. And she had a son by me.

Hosea 1:3 Meaning and Commentary

Hosea 1:3

So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim
In the course of prophesying he made mention of this person, who was a notorious common strumpet; and suggested hereby that they were just like her; or these were fictitious names he used to represent their case by Gomer signifies both "consummation" and "consumption" F12; and this harlot is so called, because of her consummate beauty, and her being completely mistress of all the tricks of one; or, being consummately wicked, a perfect whore, common to all; and because her ruin and destruction, persisting in such practices, were inevitable, and so a fit emblem of the present and future condition of Israel. Diblaim may be considered either as the name of a man, a word of the same form with Ephraim; or of a woman, the mother of Gomer; or else of a place, the wilderness of Diblath, ( Ezekiel 6:14 ) and signifies "a cake of dried figs" F13; which, in that country, was reckoned delicious eating; and so denotes, either that both the sin and ruin of this people were owing to their luxury, or indulging themselves in carnal pleasures, through the great affluence they were possessed of; or that their original was from a wilderness, and for their sins should be reduced to a desolate state again:

which conceived and bare him a son;
whose name, and what he was an emblem of, are declared in the following verse. The Targum is,

``and he went and prophesied over them, that if they returned, it should be forgiven them: but, if not, as fig tree leaves drop off, so should they; but they added, and did evil works.''


FOOTNOTES:

F12 A rad. (rmg) "perfecit, desiit", Gussetius.
F13 Vox (Mylbd) "significat massas ficuum compressarum et siccatarum", Rivetus, Tarnovius.

Hosea 1:3 In-Context

1 The word of the LORD that came to Hosea son of Beeri during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and during the reign of Jeroboam son of Jehoash king of Israel:
2 When the LORD began to speak through Hosea, the LORD said to him, “Go, marry a promiscuous woman and have children with her, for like an adulterous wife this land is guilty of unfaithfulness to the LORD.”
3 So he married Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.
4 Then the LORD said to Hosea, “Call him Jezreel, because I will soon punish the house of Jehu for the massacre at Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of Israel.
5 In that day I will break Israel’s bow in the Valley of Jezreel.”

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