Footnote

Meaning “Salvation; Deliverance.” Heb., Hoh·sheʹaʽ. Hosea is the first of the 12 “Minor Prophets” whose prophecies the Hebrews group together as one book called “The Twelve,” namely, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi.