Hosea 1:9

Then said God, Call his name Loammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
said	וַיֹּ֕אמֶר vai.Yo.mer	H559	to say (used with great latitude) · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
Call	קְרָ֥א ke.Ra'	H7121	to call out to (i.e. properly · verb, qal imperative, 2nd person masculine singular
name	שְׁמ֖וֹ she.Mo	H8034	an appellation · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
Lo-ammi	לֹ֣א lo'	H3818	Lo-Ammi · proper noun, a man's name
people	עַמִּ֔י 'a.Mi	H5971	a people (as a congregated unit) · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Jeremiah 15:1 Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight,…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Hosea 1:8–end

We have here a prediction, I. Of the rejection of Israel for a time, which is signified by the name of another child that Hosea had by his adulterous spouse, Hos 1:8, Hos 1:9. And still we must observe that those children whose names carried these direful omens in them to Israel were all children of whoredoms (Hos 1:2), all born of the harlot that Hosea married, to intimate that the ruin of Israel was the natural product of the sin of Israel. If they had not first revolted from God, they would never have been rejected by him; God never leaves any till they first leave him. Here is, 1. The birth of this child: When she had weaned her daughter, she conceived and bore a son. Notice is taken of…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Hosea 1:9

Lo-Ammi--once "My people," but henceforth not so (Eze 16:8). The intervals between the marriage and the successive births of the three children, imply that three successive generations are intended. Jezreel, the first child, represents the dynasty of Jeroboam I and his successors, ending with Jehu's shedding the blood of Jeroboam's line in Jezreel; it was there that Jezebel was slain, in vengeance for Naboth's blood shed in the same Jezreel (Kg1 16:1; Kg2 9:21, Kg2 9:30). The scenes of Jezreel were to be enacted over again on Jehu's degenerate race. At Jezreel Assyria routed Israel [JEROME]. The child's name associates past sins, intermediate punishments, and final overthrow. Lo-ruhamah ("no…

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John Gill on Hosea 1:9

Then said God, call his name Loammi,.... Which Aben Ezra interprets of the children of the ten tribes horn in captivity, who never returned; but it rather signifies the ten tribes themselves, who were carried captive and had this name given them for the reason following: for ye are not my people; though he had chosen them to be his people above all people, and had distinguished them from others by various blessings and privileges; yet they did not behave as such to him; they did not serve, obey, and worship him, but the calves at Dan and Bethel; and therefore did not deserve the name of his people: hence he says, and I will not be your or "yours" (a); that is, as we supply it, and so Aben…

The Church Fathers

"For he proclaims peace to his people, and to his faithful ones, and to those who turn to him from their hearts." I note here a threefold classification: his people, his loyal servants, and those who come back to him in hope. He proclaims peace to his people, not to the Jews of whom in Hosea he says, "You are not my people."
— Jerome, HOMILIES ON THE PSALMS, ALTERNATE SERIES 64

For this reason, our God spoke elsewhere about the Hebrew people to the prophet, saying, "Call his name Not Beloved," and again to the Jews, "You are not my people, and I am not your God." But he himself showed clearly elsewhere why he said this about them, for he said, "They have forsaken the Lord, the vein of living waters," and again, "For they have cast away the word of the Lord, and there is no wisdom in them."
— Salvian the Presbyter, THE GOVERNANCE OF GOD 4:1

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Dictionary and topics

Lo-ammi — Not my people, a symbolical name given by God’s command to Hosea’s second son in token of Jehovah’s rejection of his people (Hos. 1:9, 10), his treatment of them as a foreign people. This Hebrew word…
Loammi — (not my people), the figurative name given by the prophet Hosea to his second son by Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, (Hosea 1:9) to denote the rejection of the kingdom of Israel by Jehovah. Its…
Adoption · SPIRITUAL — SPIRITUAL
Children · Were named: Often by God — Were named: Often by God
Israel, Prophecies Concerning · .Of — .Of
Lo-Ammi · A symboli — A symboli
Name · SYMBOLI — SYMBOLI
Prophets · Frequently in their actions, &c were made signs to the people — Frequently in their actions, &c were made signs to the people

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Hosea 1:9

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Hosea 1:8–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Hosea 1:9

John Gill on Hosea 1:9

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Hosea 1:9

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Hosea 1:8–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Hosea 1:9

John Gill on Hosea 1:9

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

John Calvin on Hosea 1:8-9

Keil & Delitzsch on Hosea 1:8-9

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Hosea 1:9

Rashi on Hosea 1:8