Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

And I shall buy her to me for fifteen of silver, and an homer of barley, and a measure of barley:

New American Standard Bible

So I bought her for myself for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a half of barley.

King James Version

So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:

Holman Bible

So I bought her for 15 shekels of silver and five bushels of barley.

International Standard Version

So I bought her back for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and one and a half omers of barley.

A Conservative Version

So I bought her to me for fifteen [pieces] of silver, and a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley.

American Standard Version

So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley;

Amplified

So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a half of barley [the price of a common slave].

Bible in Basic English

So I got her for myself for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a half of barley;

Darby Translation

So I bought her to me for fifteen silver pieces, and for a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley.

King James 2000

So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver, and for a homer of barley, and a half homer of barley:

Lexham Expanded Bible

So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer of barely and a measure of wine.

Modern King James verseion

So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for a homer of barley and a half homer of barley.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

So I gat her for fifteen silverlings, and for a homer and a half of barley,

NET Bible

So I paid fifteen shekels of silver and about seven bushels of barley to purchase her.

New Heart English Bible

So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a half of barley.

The Emphasized Bible

So I secured n her to me, for fifteen pieces of silver, - and a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley;

Webster

So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for a homer of barley, and a half homer of barley:

World English Bible

So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a half of barley.

Youngs Literal Translation

And I buy her to me for fifteen silverlings, and a homer and a letech of barley;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
So I bought
כּרה 
Karah 
Usage: 3

her to me for fifteen
עשׂר 
`asar 
Usage: 339

כּסף 
Keceph 
Usage: 403

and for an homer
חמר 
Chomer 
Usage: 31

of barley
שׂעור שׂער שׂעורה שׂערה 
S@`orah 
Usage: 34

and an half homer
לתך 
Lethek 
Usage: 1

Devotionals

Devotionals containing Hosea 3:2

Context Readings

Another Symbolic Marriage

1 And Jehovah will say to me, Yet go, love a woman loving evil and an adulteress, as Jehovah loves the sons of Israel, and they took to other gods and love raisin-cakes. 2 And I shall buy her to me for fifteen of silver, and an homer of barley, and a measure of barley: 3 And saying to her, Many days thou shalt well with me; and thou shalt not commit fornication, and thou shalt not be for a man: and also I am for thee.

Cross References

Leviticus 27:16

And if from the field of his possession a man shall consecrate to Jehovah, and thy estimation was according to its seed: the seed of an omer of barley, at fifty shekels of silver.

Ezekiel 45:11

The ephah and the bath shall be one measure, for the bath to lift up the tenth of the homer, and the ephah the tenth of the homer: to the homer shall it be from its measure.

Genesis 31:41

Here to me twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy sheep; and thou wilt change my hire ten portions.

Genesis 34:12

Increase to me greatly the dowry and gift, and I will give according to that ye shall say to me; and ye shall give to me this maiden for a wife.

Exodus 22:17

If her father refusing shall refuse to give her to him, he shall weigh the silver according to the dowry of virgins.

1 Samuel 18:25

And Saul will say, Thus shall ye say to David, No delight to the king in a dowry, but in a hundred uncircumcisions of the rovers to be avenged of the king's enemies. And Saul purposed to cause David to fall into the hand of the rovers.

Isaiah 5:10

For ten measures of a vineyard shall make one bath, and the seed of an omer shall make an ephah.

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