The people will dwell securely in their land under the leadership of a king whose symbolic name will be «the Lord is our righteousness» (Jer. (religion-online.org)
Hosea understands himself to be called to take as wife a woman of ill repute — a whore, an adulteress — by whom he fathers three children with symbolic names: the Punished One (Jezreel), No Mercy (Lo Ruuhamah), and Not My People (Lo Ammi)(1:6 — 9). (religion-online.org)
This Hosea does; and to the three children now born to Gomer he gives symbolic names, making them living oracles of indictment in the community: (religion-online.org)