Hosea 11 — Hebrew and Greek compared
Disparate in this chapter: 11:1, 11:4, 11:6, 11:7, 11:10
Each card keeps the independently rendered source readings above their shared comparison and reception notes. The badge records the source’s governing classification; disparate readings are marked in red. Each reading retains its original reference.
Chapter 11
The beloved child and divine compassion
Verse 11:1 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
11:1 When Israel was a boy, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called My son.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
11:1 Because Israel was an infant, I loved him, and out of Egypt I summoned his children.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Hebrew My son is singular and God's possessive; Greek his children is plural and Israel's possessive. Neither is conformed to a later quotation. Rabbinic: Rashi connects the call to Israel through prophets and adherence to Torah [RASHI-HOS11]. New Testament reception: Matthew 2:13–15 applies My son to Jesus’ Egyptian sojourn, using the singular possessive corresponding to Hebrew rather than this Greek Hosea’s his children [NT-MAT2].
Verse 11:2 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
11:2 The more they called them, the more they went away from them; they sacrificed to the Baals and burned offerings to carved images.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
11:2 As I summoned them, so they departed from My presence; they sacrificed to the Baalim and burned incense to carved images.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew unnamed callers and departure from them becomes Greek God calling and people leaving Him. The idol offerings agree; the Hebrew callers are not explicitly renamed prophets.
Verse 11:3 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
11:3 Yet I taught Ephraim to walk, taking them upon his arms, but they did not know that I healed them.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
11:3 I bound Ephraim's feet together; I took him up on My arm, but they did not know that I healed them.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew teaching walking becomes Greek binding the feet, while Hebrew displayed his arms becomes Greek My arm. The Hebrew switch from divine I to his remains unresolved; no silent replacement with My is made. Rabbinic: Rashi supplies Moses as the one whose arms carry the people, explaining the Hebrew third-person possessive; Moses is not expressly named in this verse [RASHI-HOS11].
Verse 11:4 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
11:4 With human cords I drew them, with bands of love. I was to them like those lifting a yoke over their jaws, and I bent toward him to feed him.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
11:4 Amid human destruction I stretched them out in bonds of My love. I will be to them like a man slapping his cheeks; I will look toward him and be able to act for him.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Hebrew drawing with cords, lifting a yoke and feeding becomes Greek human destruction, stretching, cheek-striking and ability to act. The last Hebrew feeding construction and Greek ability clause are difficult; neither is reconstructed to reproduce the other's caregiving scene.
Verse 11:5 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
11:5 He will not return to Egypt's land, but Assyria will be his king, because they refused to return.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
11:5 Ephraim dwelt in Egypt, and Assur himself was his king, because he did not wish to return.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew denies a future return to Egypt; Greek affirms Ephraim's residence there. Hebrew they refused becomes singular he. The negation is preserved despite the earlier Hebrew predictions of return to Egypt.
Verse 11:6 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
11:6 A sword will whirl through his cities, consume his bars and devour because of their plans.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
11:6 A sword grew weak in his cities and ceased in his hands, and they will eat from their schemes.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Hebrew a devastating sword becomes a weakened sword at rest in Greek. Hebrew consumed bars and sword-devouring becomes Greek hands and people eating. Hebrew baddim is provisionally city bars, with other referents possible.
Verse 11:7 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
11:7 My people cling to turning away from Me. Though they call him upward, together no one raises him.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
11:7 His people hang suspended from his dwelling, and God will be angry at his precious things and will certainly not exalt him.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Hebrew My people and apostasy becomes Greek his people suspended from a dwelling; Greek explicitly adds God's anger at precious things within its corresponding clause. Hebrew's final call/upward/raising syntax is obscure and retained without inserting an unexpressed Most High title.
Verse 11:8 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
11:8 How can I give you up, Ephraim, surrender you, Israel? How can I make you like Admah, set you like Zeboiim? My heart turns within Me; all My compassion grows warm.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
11:8 How shall I deal with you, Ephraim? Shall I shield you, Israel? How shall I deal with you? Shall I make you like Adama and like Seboim? My heart turned within itself; My change of mind was stirred together.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew surrender becomes Greek shielding, changing the question's force. Both retain the threatened cities and the divine heart's reversal. Hebrew warm compassion becomes Greek disturbed reconsideration.
Verse 11:9 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
11:9 I will not carry out My burning anger; I will not again destroy Ephraim. For I am God and not a man, the Holy One in your midst, and I will not enter a city.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
11:9 I will certainly not act according to My furious anger; I will certainly not abandon Ephraim to be erased. For I am God and not a human being, holy within you, and I will not enter a city.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Both refuse annihilating anger and distinguish God from humanity. Hebrew not again destroy becomes Greek not abandon to destruction. Both displayed texts say city at the end; an alternative Hebrew wrath sense is not silently adopted. Rabbinic: Rashi reads the city as another city, preserving Jerusalem’s promised divine presence, and also reports a hostile-force interpretation. The added another remains in the note [RASHI-HOS11].
Verse 11:10 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
11:10 They will walk after YHWH; He will roar like a lion. When He roars, sons will come trembling from the sea.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
11:10 I will walk after the Lord. He will roar like a lion, because He Himself will howl, and children of waters will be astonished.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Hebrew they follow becomes Greek I follow; sons coming from the sea becomes children of waters. The shift in speaker remains without harmonizing the Greek first person to Hebrew third person.
Verse 11:11 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
11:11 They will come trembling like a bird from Egypt, like a dove from Assyria's land, and I will settle them in their houses, declares YHWH.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
11:11 They will be astonished like a bird from Egypt and like a dove from the Assyrians' land, and I will restore them to their houses, says the Lord.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: The same birds, countries and restoration agree. Hebrew trembling is rendered as coming trembling in its movement context; Greek retains astonishment.