Hosea 2:1

Hosea 2:1

Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah.

a. NLT: In that day you will call your brothers Ammi—‘My people.’ And you will call your sisters Ruhamah—‘The ones I love

b. NIV: “Say of your brothers, ‘My people,’ and of your sisters, ‘My loved one.’

c. YLT: 'Say ye to your brethren -- Ammi, And to your sisters -- Ruhamah.

d. Amplified Bible Classic: [Hosea], say to your brethren, Ammi [or You-are-my-people], and to your sisters, Ruhamah [or You-have-been-pitied-and-have-obtained-mercy].

e. Septuagint: Say to your brother, My people, and to your sister, Pitied.

f. Stone Edition Torah/Prophets/Writings: Say to your brothers, ‘Ammi” (My People) and your sisters, ‘Ruhamah’ (Pitied’.

1. “Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah.”

a. Say [559 * 'amar aw-mar'] [Strong: a primitive root; to say (used with great latitude):--answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.]

b. unto your brethren [251 * 'ach awkh] [Strong: a primitive word; a brother (used in the widest sense of literal relationship and metaphorical affinity or resemblance (like 1)):--another, brother(-ly); kindred, like, other.]

c. Ammi [5971 * `am am] [Strong: from 6004; a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock:--folk, men, nation, people.]

d. and to your sisters [269 * 'achowth aw-khoth'] [Strong: irregular feminine of 251; a sister (used very widely (like 250), literally and figuratively):--(an-)other, sister, together.]

e. Ruhamah [7355 * racham raw-kham'] [Strong: a primitive root; to fondle; by implication, to love, especially to compassionate:--have compassion (on, upon), love, (find, have, obtain, shew) mercy(-iful, on, upon), (have) pity, Ruhamah, X surely.]

1). The previous two verses speak of the restoration of Israel, beginning with the calling of the Gentiles

a). Hosea 1:10 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.

Hosea 1:11 Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel.

2). In light of the prophetic reality, Hosea 2:1 appears to be God calling those things that are not as though they were.

a). Romans 4:17 (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.