King James Version
Hosea 6:2 in the King James Version says “After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.” — study this verse from Hosea chapter 6 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.”
Hosea 6:2 · KJV
Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.
O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away. goodness: or, mercy, or, kindness
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“and we shall live”
H2421to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive
“After two days”
H3117a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso
“After two days”
H3117a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso
“us in the third”
H7992third; feminine a third (part); by extension, a third (day, year or time); specifically, a third-story cell)
“he will raise us up”
H6965to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative)
“and we shall live”
H2421to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive
“in his sight”
H6440the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi
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