Hosea 6:3
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
So let us know— let us press on to know the LORD. As surely as the sun rises, He will appear; He will come to us like the rain, like the spring showers that water the earth.

Young's Literal Translation
And we know—we pursue to know Jehovah, As the dawn prepared is His going forth, And He cometh in as a shower to us, As gathered rain—sprinkling earth.’

King James Bible
Then shall we know, [if] we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter [and] former rain unto the earth.

Hebrew
So let us know—
וְנֵדְעָ֣ה (wə·nê·ḏə·‘āh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Imperfect Cohortative - first person common plural
Strong's 3045: To know

let us press
נִרְדְּפָ֗ה (nir·də·p̄āh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect Cohortative - first person common plural
Strong's 7291: To pursue, chase, persecute

on to know
לָדַ֙עַת֙ (lā·ḏa·‘aṯ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 3045: To know

the LORD.
יְהוָ֔ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

As surely as
נָכ֣וֹן (nā·ḵō·wn)
Verb - Nifal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 3559: To be erect

the sun rises,
כְּשַׁ֖חַר (kə·ša·ḥar)
Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7837: Dawn

He will appear;
מֽוֹצָא֑וֹ (mō·w·ṣā·’ōw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 4161: A place or act of going forth, issue, export, source, spring

He will come
וְיָב֤וֹא (wə·yā·ḇō·w)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go

to us
לָ֔נוּ (lā·nū)
Preposition | first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew

like the rain,
כַגֶּ֙שֶׁם֙ (ḵag·ge·šem)
Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1653: Rain, shower

like the spring showers
כְּמַלְק֖וֹשׁ (kə·mal·qō·wōš)
Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4456: The spring rain, eloquence

that water
י֥וֹרֶה (yō·w·reh)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3138: Sprinkling, a sprinkling

the earth.
אָֽרֶץ׃ (’ā·reṣ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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