Not My People
לֹא עַמִּיStrong’s H3818lo ammi (lo am-mi)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Lo ammi is the Hebrew word usually translated “lo-” and “ammi”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Then said God, Call his name Loammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God.”
Meaning
- A man living at the time of Divided Monarchy, only mentioned at Hos.1.9
How it's translated
- lo- 1
- ammi 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Hosea 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
לֹא עַמִּי lo ammi · Not My People
A man living at the time of Divided Monarchy, only mentioned at Hos.1.9; son of: Hosea (H1954J) and Gomer (H1586H); brother of: Jezreel (H3157K), Lo-ruhamah (H3819) § Lo-ammi = "not my people" symbolic name given by the prophet Hosea to his second son by Gomer
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “lo” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LO, exclamation
- “LO, here is Christ” Matthew 24:23“LO, we turn to the Gentiles” Acts 13:46
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.