Hosea 11:3
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And I was like a foster father to Ephraim, I carried them in my arms: and they knew not that I healed them.

taught.

Exodus 19:4 You have seen what I have done to the Egyptians, how I have carried you upon the wings of eagles, and have taken you to myself.

Numbers 11:11,12 And he said to the Lord: Why hast thou afflicted thy servant? Wherefore do I not find favour before thee? And why hast thou laid the weight of all this people upon me? . . .

Deuteronomy 1:31 And in the wilderness (as thou hast seen) the Lord thy God hath carried thee, as a man is wont to carry his little son, all the way that you have come, until you came to this place.

Deuteronomy 8:2 And thou shalt remember all the way through which the Lord thy God hath brought thee for forty years through the desert, to afflict thee and to prove thee, and that the things that were known in thy heart might be made known, whether thou wouldst keep his commandments or no.

Deuteronomy 32:10-12 He found him in a desert land, in a place of horror, and of vast wilderness: he led him about, and taught him: and he kept him as the apple of his eye. . . .

Isaiah 46:3 They are consumed, and are broken together: they could not save him that carried them, and they themselves shall go into captivity.

Isaiah 63:9 In all their affliction he was not troubled, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love, and in his mercy he redeemed them, and he carried them and lifted them up all the days of old.

Acts 13:18 And for the space of forty years endured their manners in the desert:

I healed.

Hosea 2:8 And she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver, and gold, which they have used in the service of Baal.

Hosea 7:1 When I would have healed Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria, for they have committed falsehood, and the thief is come in to steal, the robber is without.

Hosea 14:4 I will heal their breaches, I will love them freely: for my wrath is turned away from them.

Exodus 15:26 Saying: If thou wilt hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and do what is right before him, and obey his commandments, and keep all his precepts, none of the evils that I laid upon Egypt, will I bring upon thee: for I am the Lord thy healer.

Exodus 23:25 And you shall serve the Lord your God, that I may bless your bread and your waters, and may take away sickness from the midst of thee.

Isaiah 1:2 Hear, O ye heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the Lord hath spoken. I have brought up children, and exalted them: but they have despised me.

Isaiah 30:26 And the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days: in the day when the Lord shall bind up the wound of his people, and shall heal the stroke of their wound.

Jeremiah 8:22 Is there no balm in Galaad? or is there no physician there? Why then is not the wound of the daughter of my people closed?

Jeremiah 30:17 For I will close up thy scar, and will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord. Because they have called thee, O Sion, an outcast: This is she that hath none to seek after her.

Context
Out of Egypt I Called my Son
2As they called them, they went away from before their face: they offered victims to Baalim, and sacrificed to idols. 3And I was like a foster father to Ephraim, I carried them in my arms: and they knew not that I healed them.4I will draw them with the cords of Adam, with the bands of love: and I will be to them as one that taketh off the yoke on their jaws: and I put his meat to him that he might eat.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 1:31
And in the wilderness (as thou hast seen) the Lord thy God hath carried thee, as a man is wont to carry his little son, all the way that you have come, until you came to this place.

Deuteronomy 32:10
He found him in a desert land, in a place of horror, and of vast wilderness: he led him about, and taught him: and he kept him as the apple of his eye.

Deuteronomy 32:11
As the eagle enticing her young to fly, and hovering over them, he spread his wings, and hath taken him and carried him on his shoulders.

Psalm 107:20
He sent his word, and healed them: and delivered them from their destructions.

Jeremiah 30:17
For I will close up thy scar, and will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord. Because they have called thee, O Sion, an outcast: This is she that hath none to seek after her.

Lexicon
It was I
וְאָנֹכִ֤י (wə·’ā·nō·ḵî)
Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 595: I

who taught Ephraim
לְאֶפְרַ֔יִם (lə·’ep̄·ra·yim)
Preposition-l | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 669: Ephraim -- a son of Joseph, also his descendants and their territory

to walk,
תִרְגַּ֙לְתִּי֙ (ṯir·gal·tî)
Verb - Tiftl - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 7270: To walk along, to reconnoiter, to be a, tale-bearer, to lead about

taking
קָחָ֖ם (qā·ḥām)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3947: To take

them in
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 5921: Above, over, upon, against

My arms,
זְרֽוֹעֹתָ֑יו (zə·rō·w·‘ō·ṯāw)
Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2220: The arm, the foreleg, force

but they never
וְלֹ֥א (wə·lō)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no

realized
יָדְע֖וּ (yā·ḏə·‘ū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 3045: To know

that it was I
כִּ֥י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

who healed them.
רְפָאתִֽים׃ (rə·p̄ā·ṯîm)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7495: To mend, to cure


Additional Translations
It was I who taught Ephraim to walk, taking them in My arms, but they never realized that it was I who healed them.I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them.

Yet I taught Ephraim to walk; I took them on my arms; but they knew not that I healed them.

Yet I bound the feet of Ephraim, I took him on my arm; but they knew not that I healed them.

And I it was that taught Ephraim to walk, -- He took them upon his arms, -- but they knew not that I healed them.

Yet I taught Ephraim to go; I took them on my arms; but they knew not that I healed them.

I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them.

Yet I taught Ephraim to walk. I took them by his arms; but they didn't know that I healed them.

And I have caused Ephraim to go on foot, Taking them by their arms, And they have not known that I strengthened them.
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