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Strong's #1586 - גֹּמֶר
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Gomer = “complete”
1) the eldest son of Japheth and grandson of Noah; the progenitor of the early Cimmerians and other branches of the Celtic family (noun proper masculine)
2) the unfaithful wife of the prophet Hosea; Hosea’s relationship with her was symbolic of God’s relationship with wayward Israel (noun proper feminine)
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1.masculine a. son of Japhet Genesis 10:2,3= 1 Chronicles 1:5,6; Ezekiel 38:6; Lag Onom. Sacr. 2,95, 2nd ed. 367, see BN 77 proposes גמרים for גמדים Ezekiel 27:11q. v.; he identification גֹּמֶר with Cappadocia (compare ᵑ7 Ezekiel 27:11, Kiep Lb. d. alt. Geogr. 91) = Armenian Gamir -χ (with plural ending) see also Lag Arm. Stud. 32 § 448; compare further Assyrian Gimirrai, Schr KG 157 ff. Dl Pa 245f. also Len Or.ii. 1,332ff.
2. feminine wife of Hosea, Hosea 1:3.
גֹּמֶר Gomer, pr.n.
(1) of a northern people sprung from Japhet (Genesis 10:2), from whom Togarmah (or the Armenians) is said to be descended (Genesis 10:3), and who in the army of Magog are mentioned with Togarmah (Ezekiel 38:6). This is probably to be understood of the Cimerii (Κιμμέριοι) inhabiting the Tauric Chersonese and the region near the Don and Danube; remarkable for their incursions into Asia-Minor in the sixth century before Christ (Herod. i. 6, 15, 103; iv. 1, 11, 12). The Arabians, by a transposition of the letters, call the people of this region قِرِم, whence now Krim is used from the Tauric Chersonese and بحر القرم the Cimmerian sea, is used of the Euxine Sea. Wahl (Altes und neues Asien, i. p. 274) compares Gamir, which amongst the Armenians was the name of Cappadocia.
(2) the wife of Hosea the prophet, a harlot, Hosea 1:3. (Appell. i.q. جَمْرُ, coals.)
