Lexical Summary Gomer: a son of Japheth, also his desc., also the wife of Hosea Original Word: גֹּמֶרTransliteration: Gomer Phonetic Spelling: (go'-mer) Part of Speech: proper name; masculine a.; feminine Short Definition: a son of Japheth, also his desc., also the wife of Hosea Meaning: Gomer -- a son of Japheth, also his descendants, also the wife of Hosea Strong's Concordance Gomer From gamar; completion; Gomer, the name of a son of Japheth and of his descendants; also of a Hebrewess -- Gomer. see HEBREW gamar Brown-Driver-Briggs H1586. Gomer גֹּ֫מָר proper name 1.masculine a. son of Japhet Genesis 10:2-3,= 1 Chronicles 1:5-6, Ezekiel 38:6; LagOnom. Sacr. 2, 95, 2nd ed. 367, see BN 77 proposes גמרים for גמדים 27:11 q. v.; he identification גֹּמֶר with Cappadocia (compare ᵑ7 27:11, KiepLb. d. alt. Geogr. 91) = Armenian Gamir -χ (with plural ending) see also LagArm. Stud. 32 § 448; compare further Assyrian Gimirrai, SchrKG 157 ff. DlPa 245 f. also LenOr.ii. 1, 332 ff. 2. feminine wife of Hosea, Hosea 1:3. |