Hosea or Hoshea or Oshea = "salvation"<OL TYPE="1"><LI>family name of Joshua, the son of Nun<LI>the 19th and last king of the northern kingdom of Israel<LI>son of Beeri, and the first of the minor prophets; prophet to the northern kingdom of Israel in the reign of Jeroboam II<LI>a son of Azaziah, a chief of Ephraim in the time of David<LI>an Israelite chief who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah</OL>