Hosea 1:6

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And [Jehovah] said unto him, Call her name Lo-ruhamah; for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel, that I should in any wise pardon them.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַתַּ֤הַר עוֹד֙ וַתֵּ֣לֶד בַּ֔ת וַיֹּ֣אמֶר ל֔וֹ קְרָ֥א שְׁמָ֖הּ לֹ֣א רֻחָ֑מָה כִּי֩ לֹ֨א אוֹסִ֜יף ע֗וֹד אֲרַחֵם֙ אֶת־בֵּ֣ית יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל כִּֽי־נָשֹׂ֥א אֶשָּׂ֖א לָהֶֽם׃

Transliteration

And-tahar ʿôd and-tēled bat and-yōʾmer to-him qərāʾ šəmāh Lōʾ Ruḥāmāh for not ʾôsîp ʿôd ʾăraḥēm ʾet-bêt Yiśrāʾēl for-nāśōʾ ʾeśśāʾ to-them.

Grammar Details

*tahar*: qal imperfect consecutive, 3rd person feminine singular - and she conceived
*ʿôd*: adverb - again/still/yet
*tēled*: qal imperfect consecutive, 3rd person feminine singular - and she bore
*bat*: feminine singular noun - daughter
*yōʾmer*: qal imperfect consecutive, 3rd person masculine singular - and he said
*qərāʾ*: qal imperative, masculine singular - call
*šəmāh*: masculine singular noun with 3fs suffix - her name
*Lōʾ Ruḥāmāh*: proper noun - Lo-Ruhamah (Not Pitied)
*ʾôsîp*: hiphil imperfect, 1st person singular - I will add
*ʾăraḥēm*: piel imperfect, 1st person singular - I will have mercy/compassion
*bêt*: construct state, masculine singular - house of
*Yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
*nāśōʾ*: qal infinitive absolute - lifting/forgiving
*ʾeśśāʾ*: qal imperfect, 1st person singular - I will lift/forgive

Word Meanings

*Lōʾ Ruḥāmāh*: Not Pitied/Not Having Obtained Mercy
*nāśōʾ ʾeśśāʾ*: I will surely forgive/I will completely take away/I will utterly pardon

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Referenced Verses

2 Kgs 17:6 : 6 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away unto Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
Hos 2:4 : 4 Yea, upon her children will I have no mercy; for they are children of whoredom;
Hos 2:23 : 23 And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them that were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, [Thou art] my God.
1 Pet 2:10 : 10 who in time past were no people, but now are the people of God: who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
Hos 9:15-17 : 15 All their wickedness is in Gilgal; for there I hated them: because of the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of my house; I will love them no more; all their princes are revolters. 16 Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay the beloved fruit of their womb. 17 My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations.
2 Kgs 17:23-41 : 23 until Jehovah removed Israel out of his sight, as he spake by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day. 24 And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Avva, and from Hamath and Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel; and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof. 25 And so it was, at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they feared not Jehovah: therefore Jehovah sent lions among them, which killed some of them. 26 Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations which thou hast carried away, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the law of the god of the land: therefore he hath sent lions among them, and, behold, they slay them, because they know not the law of the god of the land. 27 Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry thither one of the priests whom ye brought from thence; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the law of the god of the land. 28 So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Beth-el, and taught them how they should fear Jehovah. 29 Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt. 30 And the men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima, 31 and the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sepharvites burnt their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim. 32 So they feared Jehovah, and made unto them from among themselves priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places. 33 They feared Jehovah, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations from among whom they had been carried away. 34 Unto this day they do after the former manner: they fear not Jehovah, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law or after the commandment which Jehovah commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel; 35 with whom Jehovah had made a covenant, and charged them, saying, Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them: 36 but Jehovah, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and with an outstretched arm, him shall ye fear, and unto him shall ye bow yourselves, and to him shall ye sacrifice: 37 and the statutes and the ordinances, and the law and the commandment, which he wrote for you, ye shall observe to do for evermore; and ye shall not fear other gods: 38 and the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not forget; neither shall ye fear other gods: 39 but Jehovah your God shall ye fear; and he will deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies. 40 Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner. 41 So these nations feared Jehovah, and served their graven images; their children likewise, and their children's children, as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.
Isa 27:11 : 11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off; the women shall come, and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have compassion upon them, and he that formed them will show them no favor.

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