translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: HOS

label: NET study note

text: The negative particle לאֹ ( lo ’, “no, not”) and the root רָחַם ( rakham , “compassion”) are repeated in 1:6 , creating a wordplay between the name Lo-Ruhamah (literally “No-Pity”) and the announcement of divine judgment, “I will no longer have pity on the nation of Israel.”


text: These military weapons are examples of the metonymy of adjunct (the specific weapons named) for subject (warfare).


text: Beginning with 1:10 , the verse numbers through 2:23 in the English Bible differ by two from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text ( BHS ), with 1:10 ET = 2:1 HT, 1:11 ET = 2:2 HT, 2:1 ET = 2:3 HT, etc., through 2:23 ET = 2:25 HT. Beginning with 3:1 the verse numbers in the English Bible and the Hebrew Bible are again the same.