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No Mercy

לֹא רֻחָ֫מָהStrong’s H3819

lo ruchamah (lo ru-cha-mah)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Lo ruchamah is the Hebrew word usually translated “lo-” and “ruhamah”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“And she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And God said unto him, Call her name Loruhamah: for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel; but I will utterly take them away.”
Hosea 1:6 KJV
Meaning
  1. A woman living at the time of Divided Monarchy, first mentioned at Hos.1.6
How it's translated
  • lo- 2
  • ruhamah 2

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Hosea 2

1 book in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

לֹא רֻחָ֫מָה lo ruchamah · No Mercy

A woman living at the time of Divided Monarchy, first mentioned at Hos.1.6; daughter of: Hosea (H1954J) and Gomer (H1586H); sister of: Jezreel (H3157K), Lo-ammi lo am.mi (לֹא עַמִּי "Not My People" H3818)) § Lo-ruhamah = "no mercy" (Pual) symbolic name given by the prophet Hosea to his daughter

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

  1. “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.