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H3467; deliverer; Hoshea, the name of five Israelites:--Hosea, Hoshea, Oshea.
Hosea or Hoshea or Oshea = "salvation"
- family name of Joshua, the son of Nun
- the 19th and last king of the northern kingdom of Israel
- son of Beeri, and the first of the minor prophets; prophet to the northern kingdom of Israel in the reign of Jeroboam II
- a son of Azaziah, a chief of Ephraim in the time of David
- an Israelite chief who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah
