Hosea 1:8
in Hosea 1After she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, Gomer conceived and gave birth to a son.
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ASV
Now when she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she conceived, and bare a son.
KJV
Now when she had weaned Lo–ruhamah, she conceived, and bare a son.
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This verse in Hosea 1
Commentary
5 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
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.
This site's exposition
Now when she had weaned Lo–ruhamah
on Hosea 1:8-9
The weaning notice marks time between the second child and the third, whose name completes the sentence begun in the first two, not my people, undoing at a stroke the covenant formula given at the exodus, ye shall be my people and I will be your God, and setting Israel formally outside the relation Sinai had established. The commentators note the weight of I will not be your God set against the covenant name itself, the Lord unsaying his own word to a people who had unsaid theirs first. The three children stand together as a sentence read aloud over the northern kingdom, judgment and its ground both named before a word of hope interrupts it.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
"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.
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
Now when she had weaned Loruhamah,.... That is, when Gomer had weaned her daughter of this name, Hos 1:
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
weaned--said to complete the symbolical picture, not having any special signification as to Israel [HENDERSON]. Israel was bereft of all the privileges which were as needful to them as milk is to infants (compare Ps 131:2; Israel was not suddenly, but gradually cast off;
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The words behind it
7 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַתִּגְמֹ֖ל | vatigmol | and she weaned | H1580 → | |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| לֹ֣א | lo' | Lo- | H3819 → | 4 times |
| רֻחָ֑מָה | ruchamah | Ruhamah | H3819 → | 4 times |
| וַתַּ֖הַר | vatahar | and she conceived | H2029 → | 43 times |
| וַתֵּ֥לֶד | vateled | and she bore | H3205 → | 496 times |
| בֵּֽן׃ | ben | a son | H1121 → | 4930 times |
וַתִּגְמֹ֖לand she weaned
vatigmolH1580 →
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
לֹ֣אLo-
lo'H3819 →4 times
רֻחָ֑מָהRuhamah
ruchamahH3819 →4 times
וַתַּ֖הַרand she conceived
vataharH2029 →43 times
וַתֵּ֥לֶדand she bore
vateledH3205 →496 times
בֵּֽן׃a son
benH1121 →4930 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
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About Hosea
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Carl Friedrich Keil, The Twelve Minor Prophets; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Hosea 1:8-9 and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).