Hosea 1:8
After she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, Gomer conceived and gave birth to a son.
BSB
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.
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.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
