Lo-ammi
Mentioned in 784 BC traditional (Jones)
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 is rendered by “not my people” in ver. 10; 2:23.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).
- Father
- Hosea
- Mother
- Gomer
- Siblings
- Jezreel, Lo-ruhamah
- Tagged in
- 1 verse
- Mentioned in the era of the Kingdom, 1050–587 BC.
Computed from the data. Years are traditional (Jones).
Family
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Timeline
The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, 809–759 BC, is drawn below at a larger scale around these mentions, with 4 contemporaries. Years are traditional (Jones), shown as recorded, not as settled fact.
Mentions
1 tagged verse in 1 book. Select a book to read its verses.
The name in each translation
| Text | Occurrences of each name |
|---|---|
| BSB | Lo-ammi 1 |
| KJV | Lo-ammi 0 |
| ASV | Lo-ammi 1 |
Whole-word, case-sensitive count of the name string (regex \bName\b, so possessives like "Abraham's" count) across the whole Bible text of each translation; this counts the string, not the person, so other people who share the name are included and pronoun references are not. How Begat counts
Every verse
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Hosea1 verse
- 1:9
And the LORD said, “Name him Lo-ammi, for you are not My people, and I am not your God.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary
The full entry, public domain, as printed in 1897.
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 is rendered by “not my people” in ver. 10; 2:23.