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Meaning and etymology of the name Ammi
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Ammi 
The name Ammi occurs only once in the Bible, as a symbolic name given to the male population of Israel; the female population is called Ruhamah (Hosea 2:1). These two names arise as responses to the names of the children of Hosea and Gomer, named Lo-Ammi and Lo-Ruhamah (Hosea 1:6).
The name Ammi comes from the unused and assumed root  ('am). Because it isn't used in the Bible we don't know what it might have meant, but cognate verbs mean to be comprehensive or include. And it yields some derivatives that have the common meaning of togetherness:
• The preposition  (im), meaning 'with' in a wide variety of senses.
• The word  (me'im), meaning from, with or beside in a wide variety of senses;
• The feminine juxtaposition  ('umma), meaning against, beside.
But our root also yields the following, less abstract words:
• The masculine noun ('am), meaning a people in ways ranging from pretty much all mankind (Genesis 11:6) to a specific nation (Exodus 1:20) to the population of a town (Genesis 19:4). It sometimes occurs to differentiate between common folks and their leader (Leviticus 4:27), or to indicate people in general (Genesis 50:20) or simply general public, as in Jeremiah 17:19, where the prophet speaks of the Gate of the People.;
• The masculine noun ('am), meaning (paternal) kinsman. This word occurs mostly in plural, and is commonly translated simply with people or my people (Genesis 49:29, Numbers 27:13).
The word postfixed with the letter yod forms the compound meaning either my people (kinsman) or people (kinsman) of.
In the book of Hosea, the name Ammi probably means My People.
Other names that contain the word 'am are
Amalek,
Amasa,
Ammiel,
Ammihud,
Ammihur,
Amminadab,
Ammishaddai,
Ammizabad,
Ammon,
Amram,
Balaam,
Ben-ammi,
Bileam,
Gomorrah,
Ibleam,
Immanuel,
Ithream,
Jashobeam,
Jeroboam,
Lo-Ammi,
Rehoboam and
Ummah.
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