Now when she had weaned Lo–ruhamah, she conceived, and bare a son.
Now when she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she conceived, and bare a son.
And she weaneth Lo-Ruhamah, and conceiveth, and beareth a son;
And she weaned Lo-ruhamah; and she conceived and bore a son;
Hosea — A prophet commanded to marry an unfaithful wife — his marriage becomes the sermon. Fourteen chapters on covenant unfaithfulness and a love that will not let Israel go.
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"And she that was without mercy hath taken him away and conceived and brought forth a son. And he said: Call his name, Not my people: for you are not my people, and I will not be yours. " (The Septuagint likewise) And he who was called the seed of God, turned into a woman and, on account of the weakness of his strength and the offence against God, was led captive, not mentioned as having been weaned, but as having been weaned: for he had already lost his strength as a man.
Jerome· Commentary on Hosea 1:8-9, 420patristic
Now when she had weaned Loruhamah,.... That is, when Gomer had weaned her daughter of this name, Hos 1:
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
Now when she had weaned ... - Eastern women very commonly nursed their children two, or even three (2 Macc. 7:27) years. The weaning then of the child portrays a certain interval of time between these two degrees of chastisement; but after this reprieve, the last and final judgment pictured here was to set in irreversibly.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)evangelical
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So the child grew and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
