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And he said:וַיֹּאמֶרCallקְרָאhis nameשְׁמוֹLo-ammi,לֹא עַמִּיforכִּיyou areאַתֶּםnotלֹאmy people,עַמִּיand I,וְאָנֹכִיI will notלֹאbeאֶהְיֶהyours.לָכֶם
Hosea 1:9
Study it in the app“And he said: Call his name Lo-ammi, for you are not my people, and I, I will not be yours.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Hosea 1:9, word by word
- And he saidיֹּאמֶרyomer
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomer” appears- Callקְרָאkera
name
To give someone a name.
Where else “kera” appears- his nameשְׁמshem
name
The word by which a person, place or thing is called and recognized.
Where else “shem” appears- Lo-ammiלֹאlo
Lo-ammi
"Lo-ammi": "Not my people"; the name given to Hosea's third child, a sign of the broken relationship between YHWH and Israel.
Where else “lo” appears- my peopleעַמִּami
Ammi
Israel, YHWH's people: "my people".
Where else “ami” appears- beאֶהְיֶהehye
be
To be: "I will be their Elohim".
Where else “ehye” appears
Translation note
“Lo-ammi” means “Not my people.” “I will not be”: in Hebrew it is ehyeh, the same word as “I am” in Exodus 3:14.
The context
8And she weaned Lo-ruhamah, and she conceived and bore a son.
9 · This verse (above)
10Yet the number of the children of Israel will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted; and it will happen that in the place where it was said to them, “You are not my people,” it will be said to them, “Children of the living El.”