Hos 13:7-8 | JFB | e4.org | 7. ( ). leopard —The Hebrew comes from a root meaning "spotted" (compare ). Leopards lurk in thickets and thence spring on their victims. observe —that is, lie in wait for them. Several manuscripts, the Septuagint, Vulgate, Syriac, and Arabic read, by a slight change of the Hebrew vowel pointing, "by the way of Assyria, " a region abounding in leopards and lions. English Version is better.

‏ Hosea 13:7-8

leopard—The Hebrew comes from a root meaning "spotted" (compare Jer 13:23). Leopards lurk in thickets and thence spring on their victims.

observe—that is, lie in wait for them. Several manuscripts, the Septuagint, Vulgate, Syriac, and Arabic read, by a slight change of the Hebrew vowel pointing, "by the way of Assyria," a region abounding in leopards and lions. English Version is better.

8. "Writers on the natures of beasts say that none is more savage than a she bear, when bereaved of her whelps" [JEROME].

caul of . . . heart—the membrane enclosing it: the pericardium.

there—"by the way" (Ho 13:7).