Hosea 13:6

Footnotes

1. 16 The reads כְּמַרְעִיתָם (kémar’itam, “according to their pasturage”; preposition ךְּ (kaf) + noun מַרְעִית, mar’it, “pasture” + 3rd person masculine plural suffix). Text-critics propose: (1) כְּמוֹ רְעִיתִים (kémo ré’itim, “as I pastured them”; preposition כְּמוֹ (kémo) + Qal perfect 1st person common singular from רָעַה, ra’ah, “to pasture, feed” + 3rd person masculine plural suffix) and (2) כִּרְעוֹתָם (“when they had pastured”; preposition ךְּ + Qal perfect 3rd person masculine plural from רָעַה). Some English versions follow the : “according to their pasture” (), “as they had their pasture” (), “when you entered the good land” (). Others adopt the first emendation: “when I fed them” (, ), “I fed you [sic = them]” (). Still others follow the second emendation: “but when they had fed to the full” (), “when they grazed” ().
2. 17 Heb “their heart became exalted”; , “was exalted.”