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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, Hos 1:10), his treatment of them as a foreign people. This Hebrew word is rendered by “not my people” in ver. 10; Hos 2:23.
Named in the Bible
1 verse
- Hosea 1:9 Then said God, Call his name Loammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
