[632] Uncertain.
[633] נשיא for נשא.
[634] Read with Ewald כתבנתם. LXX. read כתמונת.
[635] Here the LXX. makes the insertion noted on pp. [203], [226].
[636] So LXX., רעיתיך.
[637] Read וֶאֱהִי.
[638] אשׁור, usually taken as first fut. of שור, to lurk. But there is a root of common use in Arabic, sar, to spring up suddenly, of wine into the head or of a lion on its prey; sawâr, "the springer," is one of the Arabic names for lion.
[639] We shall treat this passage later in connection with Hosea's doctrine of the knowledge of God: see pp. [330] f.
[640] After the LXX.
[641] Read with Houtsma וכל שריך וישפטוך.