Lo-Ammi
Lo-Ammi is the youngest son of the prophet Hosea in the Old Testament .
etymology
The Hebrew name לֹ֣א עַמִּ֔י lo ammi is a nominal sentence. It means "not my people". The name indicates YHWH's intention to turn away from his people. It forms an antithesis to the covenant formula from Ex 6.7 EU : "I want to accept you as my people and want to be your God"
In the Septuagint the name is rendered with οὐ-λαόσ-μου u-laos-mu , which translated has the same meaning.
Biblical report
YHWH instructs Hosea to marry a cult whore and to father children. This act of signs is intended to make it clear that the people have left YHWH and have become a prostitute ( Hos 1,2 EU ). Hosea obeys YHWH's instructions and marries Gomer, Diblajim's daughter. She bears him three children: the son Jezreel, the daughter Lo-Ruhama and the son Lo-Ammi ( Hos 1,4-9 EU ).
This name is taken up in the words of salvation Hos 2,1-3 EU and Hos 2,18-25 EU . In Hos 2,3 EU there is a renaming from Lo-Ammi (“Not my people”) to Ammi (“My people”). In Hos 2.25 EU , YHWH speaks to Lo-Ammi (“Not my people”) “You are my people!”
An allusion to this name can be found in Rom 9,25-26 EU , where it says: “I will call that my people who were not my people, and my beloved who were not my beloved. And it should happen: Instead of being said to them: 'You are not my people', they are to be called children of the living God. ”The name is thus interpreted here to refer to the beginning mission of non-Jews.
literature
- Heinz-Dieter Neef: Lo-Ammi. In: Michaela Bauks, Klaus Koenen, Stefan Alkier (Eds.): The Scientific Biblical Lexicon on the Internet (WiBiLex), Stuttgart 2006 ff.