not my people, a symbolical name given by God's command to Hosea's second son in token of Jehovah's rejection of his people ( Hosea 1:9 Hosea 1:10 ), his treatment of them as a foreign people. This Hebrew word is rendered by "not my people" in ver. 10; 2:23 .

These dictionary topics are from
M.G. Easton M.A., D.D., Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Third Edition,
published by Thomas Nelson, 1897. Public Domain, copy freely.