The Meaning of Hosea 1:9 Explained

Hosea 1:9

KJV: Then said God, Call his name Loammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God.

YLT: and He saith, 'Call his name Lo-Ammi, for ye are not My people, and I am not for you;

Darby: and he said, Call his name Lo-ammi; for ye are not my people, and I will not be for you.

ASV: And Jehovah'said, Call his name Lo-ammi; for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God .

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Then said  [God], Call  his name  Loammi:  for ye [are] not my people,  and I will not be your [God]. 

What does Hosea 1:9 Mean?

Study Notes

my people
"My people" is an expression used in the O.T. exclusively of Israel the nation. It is never used of the patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Matthew 2:6 .

Context Summary

Hosea 1:1-11 - God Gathers The Outcast
The story of Hosea is a pathetic one. He felt impressed that it was his duty to take as wife one whose earlier life had been unchaste. From this marriage resulted three children, the names of whom are terribly significant. They are as follows:-God will scatter; Not an object of favor; and Once my people, but not so now. Here is the history of many a soul. In spite of all God's tender love, we may wander from Him into the path of sin.
The chapter closes with brighter prognostications. In part, these latter verses were fulfilled by the return from Babylon, and they will be fulfilled in literal fulness someday-probably sooner than we have been wont to suppose. It is good to lay the emphasis on In the place"¦ there. How often we are taken back to the very circumstances in which we appear to have failed most conspicuously, in order that there we may receive the crowning blessing of our life, Hosea 1:10. Leave God to vindicate you. He will bring you from the land of the enemy, and extort, this confession from the mouth of your critics and foes, Hosea 1:10. [source]

Chapter Summary: Hosea 1

1  Hosea, to show God's judgment for spiritual unfaithfulness, takes Gomer,
4  and has by her Jezreel;
6  Loruhamah;
8  and Lo-Ammi
10  The restoration of Judah and Israel under one head

What do the individual words in Hosea 1:9 mean?

And [God] said Call his name Lo-ammi for you [are] not My people and I and not will be your [God] to -
וַיֹּ֕אמֶר קְרָ֥א שְׁמ֖וֹ לֹ֣א עַמִּ֑י כִּ֤י אַתֶּם֙ לֹ֣א עַמִּ֔י וְאָנֹכִ֖י לֹֽא־ אֶהְיֶ֥ה לָכֶֽם ס

וַיֹּ֕אמֶר  And  [God]  said 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: אָמַר 
Sense: to say, speak, utter.
קְרָ֥א  Call 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperative, masculine singular
Root: קָרָא  
Sense: to call, call out, recite, read, cry out, proclaim.
שְׁמ֖וֹ  his  name 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct, third person masculine singular
Root: שֵׁם  
Sense: name.
לֹ֣א  Lo-ammi 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
כִּ֤י  you  [are] 
Parse: Pronoun, second person masculine plural
Root: כִּי 
Sense: that, for, because, when, as though, as, because that, but, then, certainly, except, surely, since.
לֹ֣א  My  people 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct, first person common singular
Root: הֲלֹא 
Sense: not, no.
עַמִּ֔י  and  I 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Pronoun, first person common singular
Root: עַם 
Sense: nation, people.
וְאָנֹכִ֖י  and  not 
Parse: Adverb, Negative particle
Root: אָנׄכִי  
Sense: I (first pers.
לֹֽא־  will  be 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, first person common singular
Root: הֲלֹא 
Sense: not, no.
אֶהְיֶ֥ה  your  [God] 
Parse: Preposition, second person masculine plural
Root: אֶהְיֶה 
Sense: to be, become, come to pass, exist, happen, fall out.
ס  - 
Parse:

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