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lo-ammi in Easton's Bible Dictionary

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.

lo-ammi in Smith's Bible Dictionary

(not my people), the figurative name given by the prophet Hosea to his second son by Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, #Ho 1:9| to denote the rejection of the kingdom of Israel by Jehovah. Its significance is explained in vs. 9,10

lo-ammi in Schaff's Bible Dictionary

LO-AM'MI (not my people), the name applied symbolically to the son of the prophet Hosea. representing Israel. Hos 1:9. See Lo-Ruhamah.

lo-ammi in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Lo Ammi = not My people. Jezreel, Lo-ruhamah (= not loved), and Loammi are the three children of the prophet Hosea’s wife, Gomer, taken by God’s command. "Jezreel" symbolised the coming destruction of Jehu’s line, as Jehu had destroyed that of Ahab of Jezreel; also that as Jezreel means both God sows and God scatters, so God will yet sow Israel whom He now scatters (Hosea 1:4-6,9,10,11), "great shall be the day of Jezreel," i.e. great shall be the day when they shall be God’s seed planted in their own land by God (Jeremiah 24:6; 31:28; 32:41; Amos 9:15; Hosea 2:23). "I will sow her (Jezreel, the sown one, Hosea 2:22) unto ... Me in the earth." Not only Judaea, but the whole earth shall be the seed plot wherein Gentile nations shall be the spiritual growth of the Jewish seed sown everywhere (Micah 5:7; Romans 11:12,15; Zechariah 10:9). Loruhamah, changed into Ruhama, means that He will first withdraw His "loving mercy" and at last restore it. And Loammi, changed into Ammi, that He will make Israel, now "not His people" owing to apostasy, to become again "His people." The three children symbolize successive generations: Jezreel (1) represents the dynasty of Jeroboam I, ending with Jehu’s shedding the blood of the last of the line at Jezreel; Lo-ruhamah (2), a daughter, represents the effeminate period which followed; Lo-ammi, a son, represents Jeroboam II’s vigorous dynasty, which however brought no revival of religion; still Israel was not God’s people really, and so should be no longer so in name but cast away.