Strong's Hebrew: 1586. גֹּ֫מֶר (Gomer) -- a son of Japheth, also his desc., also the wife of Hosea

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Gomer: a son of Japheth, also his desc., also the wife of Hosea

Original Word: גֹּ֫מֶר
Part of Speech: proper name; masculine a.; feminine
Transliteration: Gomer
Phonetic Spelling: (go'-mer)
Short Definition: Gomer

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
from gamar
Definition
a son of Japheth, also his desc., also the wife of Hosea
NASB Translation
Gomer (6).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

גֹּ֫מָר proper name

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 27:11 q. 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 245 f.} also Len^{Or.ii. 1, 332 ff.}

2. feminine wife of Hosea, Hosea 1:3.

Strong's

Gomer

From gamar; completion; Gomer, the name of a son of Japheth and of his descendants; also of a Hebrewess -- Gomer.

see HEBREW gamar