{"def":{"lit":"salvation","short":"Hoshea, the name of five Israelites","long":["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"]},"deriv":"from H3467; deliverer","pronun":{"ipa":"hoˈʃe.ɑʕ","ipa_mod":"ho̞wˈʃe.ɑʕ","sbl":"hôšēaʿ","dic":"hoh-SHAY-ah","dic_mod":"hoh-SHAY-ah"}}