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Hosea 3:2

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— So I bought her for myself for fifteen [shekels] of silver and a homer and a half of barley.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— So I bought her to me for fifteen [pieces] of silver, and [for] an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— So I bought her to me for fifteen [pieces] of silver, and an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— So I bought her to me for fifteen [pieces] of silver, and a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley;
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— So I bought her to me for fifteen [pieces] of silver, and [for] a homer of barley, and a half homer of barley:
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— So I bought her to me for fifteen silver [pieces], and for a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— So I secured her to me, for fifteen pieces of silver,—and a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley;
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— And I buy her to me for fifteen silverlings, and a homer and a letech of barley;
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— And I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for a core of barley, and for half a core of barley.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— So I bought her to me for fifteene pieces of siluer, and for an homer of barlie and an halfe homer of barlie.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— So I bought her to me for fifteene [pieces] of siluer, and for an homer of barley and an halfe [homer] of barley.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and half of barley;
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— So I hired [her] to myself for fifteen [pieces] of silver, and a homer of barley, and a flagon of wine.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— So I bought her to me for fifteen [pieces] of silver, and [for] an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:

Strong's Numbers & Hebrew NamesHebrew Old TestamentColor-Code/Key Word Studies
So I bought 3739
{3739} Prime
כָּרָה
karah
{kaw-raw'}
Usually assigned as a primitive root, but probably only a special application of H3738 (through the common idea of planning implied in a bargain); to purchase.
z8799
<8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Imperfect (See H8811)
Count - 19885
her to me for fifteen 6240
{6240} Prime
עָשָׂר
`asar
{aw-sawr'}
For H6235; ten (only in combination), that is, the 'teens'; also (ordinal) a 'teenth'.
2568
{2568} Prime
חָמֵשׁ
chamesh
{khaw-maysh'}
A primitive numeral; five.
[pieces] of silver, 3701
{3701} Prime
כֶּסֶף
keceph
{keh'-sef}
From H3700; silver (from its pale color); by implication money.
and [for] an homer 2563
{2563} Prime
חֹמֶר
chomer
{kho'-mer}
From H2560; properly a bubbling up, that is, of water, a wave; of earth, mire or clay (cement); also a heap; hence a chomer or dry measure.
of barley, 8184
{8184} Prime
שְׂעֹרָה
s@`orah
{seh-o-raw'}
(The feminine form meaning the plant and the masculine form meaning the grain (second form)); from H8175 in the sense of roughness; barley (as villose).
and an half homer 3963
{3963} Prime
לֵתֶךְ
lethek
{leh'-thek}
From an unused root of uncertain meaning; a measure for things dry.
of barley: 8184
{8184} Prime
שְׂעֹרָה
s@`orah
{seh-o-raw'}
(The feminine form meaning the plant and the masculine form meaning the grain (second form)); from H8175 in the sense of roughness; barley (as villose).
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary

Hosea 3:2

_ _ I bought her — The price paid is too small to be a probable dowry wherewith to buy a wife from her parents; but it is just half the price of a female slave, in money, the rest of the price being made up in grain (Exodus 21:32). Hosea pays this for the redemption of his wife, who has become the slave of her paramour. The price being half grain was because the latter was the allowance of food for the slave, and of the coarsest kind, not wheat, but barley. Israel, as committing sin, was the slave of sin (John 8:34; Romans 6:16-20; 2 Peter 2:19). The low price expresses Israel’s worthlessness.

Matthew Henry's Commentary

See commentary on Hosea 3:1-5.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Hosea 3:2

Fifteen pieces of silver — It was half the value of a slave, Exodus 21:32. An homer of barley — About fourteen bushels. Of barley — The meanest kind of provision; and suited to a low condition, all this is, to set forth Israel's indigence and ingratitude, and God's bounty to Israel.

Geneva Bible Translation Notes

Hosea 3:2

So (c) I bought her to me for fifteen [pieces] of silver, and [for] an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:

(c) Yet I loved her and paid a small portion for her, lest she would have perceived the greatness of my love, and abused me, and not been under duty: for fifteen pieces of silver was but half the price of a slave; (Exodus 21:32).

Cross-Reference Topical ResearchStrong's Concordance
I bought:

Genesis 31:41 Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.
Genesis 34:12 Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife.
Exodus 22:17 If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.
1 Samuel 18:25 And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies. But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.

an homer:

Leviticus 27:16 And if a man shall sanctify unto the LORD [some part] of a field of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the seed thereof: an homer of barley seed [shall be valued] at fifty shekels of silver.
Isaiah 5:10 Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
Ezekiel 45:11 The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.

half homer:
Heb. lethech.
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Chain-Reference Bible SearchCross References with Concordance

Gn 31:41; 34:12. Ex 22:17. Lv 27:16. 1S 18:25. Is 5:10. Ezk 45:11.

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