- verses
- 2
- first named
- Hosea 1:6
- last named
- Hosea 1:8
- period
- Divided Monarchy
- role
- Woman
Description
Who was Lo-ruhamah?
Lo-ruhamah was the symbolic name given to the daughter of the prophet Hosea and his wife Gomer (Hos.1.6). The name Lo-ruhamah means "not pitied" or "not shown mercy" in Hebrew. This name, along with the names of Hosea's other children, Jezreel and Lo-ammi, was used by God to convey a message to the people of Israel. The name Lo-ruhamah symbolized God's decision to withdraw His mercy and compassion from Israel due to their persistent unfaithfulness (Hos.1.6). God declared that He would no longer show love to the house of Israel or forgive them (Hos.1.6,8). This message was part of Hosea's prophecy, which called the Israelites to repentance and warned of the consequences of their disobedience. The symbolic names of Hosea's children served as a powerful visual reminder of God's judgment and the broken relationship between God and His people.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
Places
Where this happens
A person is placed by the events they take part in, and an event has to clear three things to place them: it must say where it happened, that place must be one the gazetteer can put a coordinate on, and the verse must report it rather than foretell, command or ask it. Nothing anchored here clears all three. Where the text names a setting no gazetteer surveys — a vineyard, a palace, a plot of ground — it is left off rather than guessed at; where a place is named only in a prophecy, the map does not draw what was said to be coming as though it had happened; and a place reached only through a relation is not inherited, because standing beside somebody is not being somewhere.
No verse Atlas has read as a report puts this person anywhere.
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Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 2, across 1 book.
Onward
Where this page goes
Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
Where they appear
Chapter by chapter
Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
Sources