Hos 11:3 | NETfull | STEP | Yet it was I who led Ephraim, I took them by the arm; but they did not acknowledge that I had healed them.

Hosea 11:3

3 Yet it was I who led ^{▼▼ Or “taught Ephraim to walk” (so ASV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV). The verb תִרְגַּלְתִּי (tirgalti, “I taught [him] to walk, I led [him]”; Tiphil perfect 1st person common singular from רָגַל, ragal, “to walk”) is an unusual verb stem: the Tiphil (properly Taphel) is attested three times in Biblical Hebrew (Hos 11:3; Jer 12:5; 22:15) and once in Biblical Aramaic (Ezra 4:7; see GKC 153 #55.h).} Ephraim,
I took them by the arm;
but they did not acknowledge
that I had healed them. ^{▼▼ Or “that it was I who had healed them” (NIV, NLT similar).}