She conceived again, and bore a daughter. Then he said to him, "Call her name Lo-Ruhamah{Lo-Ruhamah means "not loved."}; for I will no longer have mercy on the house of Israel, that I should in any way pardon them.
"Call her ...  Lo-ruhamah ..." This name means "unpitied," or "no pity," leading to the deduction that Gomer herself refused to bestow a mother's love upon her infant daughter.  Myers rejected these commonly understood meanings of the name saying, "They are a weak rendering of the Hebrew which means unloved, or disliked."[22]