Hosea 3:3

For me] i.e. as my property. For another man] RV 'any man's wife.' For awhile Gomer was to live as though unmarried.

4. Gomer's isolation is the symbol of that of exiled Israel, deprived of political organisation and religious services. Sacrifice, etc.] cp. Hosea 2:11. All forms of religious symbolism are included in this v. Image] RV 'pillar.' A religious symbol, probably borrowed from the Canaanites. Ephod] The word is most frequently used of the high priest's dress, but in Judges 8:27 of a golden or gold-plated image set up by Gideon, and that would appear to be the meaning here. Teraphim] small household images, probably something like Roman Lares: see Genesis 31:34; Jeremiah 17:5, etc. Their use was probably general in early times. Even David did not discard them in his early life (1 Samuel 19:13.), and they were in use at the time of Josiah's reformation in Judah (2 Kings 23:24).