Strong's #1954: Howshea` (pronounced ho-shay'-ah)

from 3467; deliverer; Hoshea, the name of five Israelites:--Hosea, Hoshea, Oshea.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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hôshêa‛

Hosea or Hoshea or Oshea = "salvation"

1) family name of Joshua, the son of Nun

2) the 19th and last king of the northern kingdom of Israel

3) son of Beeri, and the first of the minor prophets; prophet to the northern kingdom of Israel in the reign of Jeroboam II

4) a son of Azaziah, a chief of Ephraim in the time of David

5) an Israelite chief who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah

Part of Speech: noun proper masculine

Relation: from H3467

Usage:

This word is used 16 times:

 

Numbers 13:8: "Of the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea the son of Nun."
Numbers 13:16: "the land. And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Joshua."
Deuteronomy 32:44: "in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun."
2 Kings 15:30: " And Hoshea the son made a conspiracy against Pekah the son"
2 Kings 17:1: "year king of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah to reign"
2 Kings 17:3: "king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and gave him presents."
2 Kings 17:4: "of Assyria conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So"
2 Kings 17:6: "In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria,"
2 Kings 18:1: "Now it came to pass in the third of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel,"
2 Kings 18:9: "which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel,"
2 Kings 18:10: "of Hezekiah, that is the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria"
1 Chronicles 27:20: "Of the children of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Azaziah: of the half tribe of Manasseh,"
Nehemiah 10:23: " Hoshea, Hananiah,"
Hosea 1:1: "came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah,"
Hosea 1:2: "The beginning of the word by Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea,"
Hosea 1:2: "And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms"