Not pitied, the name of the prophet Hosea’s first daughter, a type of Jehovah’s temporary rejection of his people (Hos. 1:6; 2:23).
Lo-Ruhamah
A prophet’s household became a message. In Hosea 1, God tells the prophet to name his daughter Loruhamah, and the reason is stated without softening: “for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel.” The name is heard as a verdict. Yet the very next verse turns toward Judah: “I will have mercy upon the house of Judah.” Scripture does not leave the name there, and later in Hosea the picture shifts. This short passage shows a hard word and a narrow mercy side by side, and it rewards reading in its place at the start of Hosea.
3 verses
Hosea
Hosea 1:6
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 1:7
But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by the LORD their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.
Hosea 1:8
Now when she had weaned Loruhamah, she conceived, and bare a son.
From Easton's Bible Dictionary
Matthew George Easton, 1897
From Smith's Bible Dictionary
William Smith, 1884
(the uncompassionated), the name of the daughter of Hosea the prophet, given to denote the utterly ruined condition of the kingdom of Israel. (Hosea 1:6)