Hosea 7 — Hebrew and Greek compared
Disparate in this chapter: 7:2, 7:14
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 7
Unhealed wickedness and divided allegiance
Verse 7:1 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
7:1 When I heal Israel, Ephraim's guilt and Samaria's evils are exposed, for they practice falsehood. A thief enters; a raiding band strips people outside.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
7:1 when I heal Israel. Ephraim's injustice and Samaria's wickedness will be uncovered, because they practiced falsehood. A thief will enter upon him, a robber stripping him on his road,
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek completes the preceding temporal clause before the exposure statement and specifies the victim's road. Both name Ephraim, Samaria, falsehood and robbery.
Verse 7:2 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
7:2 They do not say in their hearts that I remember all their evil. Now their deeds surround them; they are before My face.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
7:2 so that they sing together as people singing together with their heart. I remembered all their evils; now their schemes have surrounded them; they have come before My face.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Hebrew failure to consider divine remembrance becomes Greek singing in unison followed by a separate remembrance statement. The surprising Greek purpose clause is retained without supplying a missing negation.
Verse 7:3 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
7:3 With their evil they gladden a king, and with their lies, officials.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
7:3 With their evils they gladdened kings, and with their falsehoods, rulers.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: The corruption of rulers agrees; Hebrew a king is singular while Greek kings is plural.
Verse 7:4 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
7:4 All of them are adulterers, like an oven heated by a baker who stops stoking it from the kneading of dough until it rises.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
7:4 All are adulterers, like an oven burning for the baking of something scorched by flame, from the kneading of fat until it ferments.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew a baker's pause in tending dough becomes a difficult Greek description of burning, baking and kneaded fat. Greek stear is fat, not dough; its incongruous fermentation is preserved as an uncertainty rather than corrected from Hebrew.
Verse 7:5 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
7:5 On our king's day, officials become sick with wine's heat; he extends his hand with scoffers.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
7:5 On your kings' days the rulers began to rage from wine; he stretched out his hand with pestilent men,
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew our king's singular day and sickness become your kings' plural days and anger. Both retain the abrupt singular he and his company; Greek pestilent men is an abusive description, not a medical diagnosis.
Verse 7:6 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
7:6 For they bring their heart near like an oven in their ambush; all night their baker sleeps, and in the morning it burns like a flaming fire.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
7:6 because their hearts were kindled like an oven as they battered people. All night Ephraim was filled with sleep; morning came, and he was kindled like fire's blaze.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew an ambush, sleeping baker and burning oven becomes Greek battering, sleeping Ephraim and his burning. The difficult Hebrew bringing-near image remains explicit; the subjects are not harmonized.
Verse 7:7 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
7:7 All of them grow hot like an oven and devour their judges. All their kings have fallen; no one among them calls to Me.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
7:7 All grew hot like an oven and devoured their judges. All their kings fell; there was no one among them calling to Me.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: The oven, devoured judges, fallen kings and absent appeal to God correspond.
Verse 7:8 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
7:8 Ephraim mixes himself among the peoples; Ephraim has become a cake not turned.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
7:8 Ephraim mingled among his peoples; Ephraim became a cake baked in ashes and not turned.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek specifies the ash-baked kind of cake and says his peoples. Both leave the cake unturned, an image of incomplete preparation.
Verse 7:9 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
7:9 Foreigners devour his strength, but he does not know it; gray hair is sprinkled upon him, but he does not know it.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
7:9 Foreigners devoured his strength, but he did not recognize it; gray hairs blossomed upon him, but he did not know it.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both repeat his unawareness of lost strength and visible aging. The gray hair is sprinkled in Hebrew and blooms in Greek.
Verse 7:10 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
7:10 Israel's pride testifies against him, yet they have not returned to YHWH their God or sought Him in all this.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
7:10 Israel's arrogance will be humbled before his face, yet they did not return to the Lord their God or seek Him in all these things.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: As in five verse five, Hebrew pride testifies while Greek arrogance is humbled. Failure to return or seek God agrees.
Verse 7:11 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
7:11 Ephraim has become like a gullible dove without understanding; they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
7:11 Ephraim was like a senseless dove without understanding; he called on Egypt, and they went to the Assyrians.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: The foolish dove and recourse to the same two foreign powers correspond. Greek's shift from singular collective Ephraim to plural they is retained.
Verse 7:12 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
7:12 As they go, I will spread My net over them; I will bring them down like heaven's birds. I will discipline them according to what their congregation has heard.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
7:12 Whenever they go, I will cast My net over them; I will bring them down like heaven's birds. I will discipline them when their affliction is heard.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: The capture agrees. Hebrew the congregation's hearing becomes Greek hearing of their distress; Hebrew's difficult final phrase is kept as an announced warning rather than replaced by Greek affliction.
Verse 7:13 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
7:13 Woe to them, for they have wandered from Me! Devastation to them, for they have rebelled against Me! I would redeem them, but they speak lies against Me.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
7:13 Woe to them, because they sprang away from Me! They are miserable, because they acted impiously toward Me. I redeemed them, but they spoke falsehoods against Me.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew prospective or desired redemption becomes completed Greek redemption. Devastation becomes misery. Both connect departure, rebellion and false speech against God.
Verse 7:14 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
7:14 They do not cry to Me from their hearts when they howl on their beds. They gather for grain and new wine; they turn away against Me.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
7:14 Their hearts did not cry to Me; they only howled on their beds. They cut themselves over grain and wine. They were disciplined through Me,
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Hebrew gathering becomes Greek self-cutting. Hebrew turning against God becomes Greek receiving discipline; the latter connects with the next verse's Hebrew discipline motif. The shared bed-lament is not evidence that the divergent actions are identical.
Verse 7:15 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
7:15 I disciplined them and strengthened their arms, but they devise evil against Me.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
7:15 and I strengthened their arms, but they devised evil against Me.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek already placed discipline in the preceding verse. Across both verses the strengthening and hostile response correspond; the row does not conceal the shifted clause.
Verse 7:16 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
7:16 They return, but not upward; they are like a treacherous bow. Their officials will fall by the sword because of their tongues' rage. This will be their mockery in Egypt's land.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
7:16 They turned away toward nothing; they became like a drawn bow. Their rulers will fall by the sword because of their tongues' lack of discipline. This is their contempt in Egypt's land.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew not upward becomes Greek toward nothing, a treacherous bow becomes a drawn bow, and raging speech becomes undisciplined speech. The Hebrew opening remains elliptical rather than inserting an explicit divine title.