יְחַיֵּ֖נוּ (yə·ḥay·yê·nū) in Hosea 6:2: Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | first person common plural
יְחַיֵּ֖נוּ (yə·ḥay·yê·nū) in Hosea 6:2
Source Word
Hosea 6:2 row 2 aligns H2421 with He will revive us between the call to return and the purpose that we may live in his presence.
How The Form Affects Interpretation
He will revive us keeps the Lord as the expected giver of renewed life and the community as its dependent recipient. He represents the clause's masculine singular agent, while us directly renders the first-person plural suffix; the timing phrases govern the sequence.
How To Communicate It
Read the plural appeal beginning in verse 1, identify the Lord as agent and us as recipient, then include the divine critique in verse 4 when assessing the speakers' response.
What Not To Say
- Grammatical form should serve context, not override it.
- Do not isolate the timing phrases into prediction arithmetic or treat grammatical agency as proof that the people's professed return is complete.
- The imperfect receives future force from the surrounding promise-like speech.
- The form does not establish a precise prophetic calendar, prove the depth of the speakers' repentance, or carry a later resurrection claim by morphology alone.
What Does The Label Mean?
Hebrew-verb
Verb
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | first person common plural
Piel
Imperf
Third
Masculine
Singular
Not applicable
First person common plural
The Piel imperfect presents a masculine singular agent, identified by the surrounding return-to-the-Lord speech as the Lord, and the first-person common plural suffix marks the speaking community as those revived.
The form assigns reviving agency to the Lord and gathers the speakers into the plural object us before the parallel promise that he will raise us up.
What The Form Does In This Verse
The community's call to return to the Lord after acknowledging that he has torn and will heal
The two-day and third-day sequence that expresses hoped-for restoration so the people may live in the Lord's presence
The form assigns reviving agency to the Lord and gathers the speakers into the plural object us before the parallel promise that he will raise us up.
The form does not establish a precise prophetic calendar, prove the depth of the speakers' repentance, or carry a later resurrection claim by morphology alone.
How Much The Form Matters Here
High: The form makes renewed communal life dependent on the Lord and directs that life toward his presence.
The Piel imperfect presents a masculine singular agent, identified by the surrounding return-to-the-Lord speech as the Lord, and the first-person common plural suffix marks the speaking community as those revived.. The form assigns reviving agency to the Lord and gathers the speakers into the plural object us before the parallel promise that he will raise us up.. Attached to the community's call to return to the Lord after acknowledging that he has torn and will heal. Governed by the two-day and third-day sequence that expresses hoped-for restoration so the people may live in the Lord's presence. The form does not establish a precise prophetic calendar, prove the depth of the speakers' repentance, or carry a later resurrection claim by morphology alone.
Who revives whom in Hosea 6:2, and toward what end? The community expects the Lord to revive and raise them so they may live in his presence.
Direct: He represents the clause's masculine singular agent, while us directly renders the first-person plural suffix; the timing phrases govern the sequence.
The imperfect receives future force from the surrounding promise-like speech. The two-day and third-day expressions communicate a swift restoration sequence without the morphology supplying a precise calendar.
V-Piel-Imperf-3ms | 1cp at Hosea 6:2 treated as the whole interpretation: Do not isolate the timing phrases into prediction arithmetic or treat grammatical agency as proof that the people's professed return is complete. after two days and on the third day converted into an exact end-times schedule or treated as proof of sincere repentance: Keep "He will revive us" connected to יְחַיֵּ֖נוּ, row 2, and the full Hosea 6:2 clause.
How The Interpretation Is Derived
Hosea 6:2 row 2 aligns H2421 with He will revive us between the call to return and the purpose that we may live in his presence.
This row 2 H2421 witness concerns communal restoration before the Lord, distinct from Habakkuk's imperative prayer and Nathan's description of raising a lamb.
The Piel imperfect presents a masculine singular agent, identified by the surrounding return-to-the-Lord speech as the Lord, and the first-person common plural suffix marks the speaking community as those revived.
Hosea 6:1-3 voices a communal resolve to return to the Lord in hope of healing, renewed life, and restored presence, while the following divine response exposes the instability of their love.
The short restoration sequence belongs first to Hosea's call and the Lord's covenant dealings with Israel; any broader canonical connection must retain that setting and the critique that follows.
Read the plural appeal beginning in verse 1, identify the Lord as agent and us as recipient, then include the divine critique in verse 4 when assessing the speakers' response.
Do not isolate the timing phrases into prediction arithmetic or treat grammatical agency as proof that the people's professed return is complete.