Lo-Ammi

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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.

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