Gomer

Gomer Scripture - Ezekiel 38:6

Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: [and] many people with thee....

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Gomer Scripture - Genesis 10:2

The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras....

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Gomer Scripture - Hosea 1:3

So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; which conceived, and bare him a son....

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Gomer in Wikipedia

(גֹּמֶר, Standard Hebrew Gómer, Tiberian Hebrew Gōmer, pronounced [ɡoˈmeʁ]) is the eldest son of Japheth (and therefore of the Japhetic line), and father of Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah, according to the "Table of Nations" in the Hebrew Bible. (Genesis 10). The eponymous Gomer, "standing for the whole family," as the compilers of the Jewish...

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Gomer in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

1. Japhet's oldest; son; father of Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah (Genesis 10:2-3). A warlike ally of Magog (Scythia) Gog (Ezekiel 38:6), coming from the N. The Cimmerians warred in northwestern Asia from 670 to 570 B.C. Originally dwelling in what is now southern Russia, the Ukraine (the Crimea betrays their name, the Cimmerian Bosphorus); t...

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Gomer in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

go'-mer (gomer): Given in Gen 10:2 f; 1 Ch 1:5 f as a son of Japheth. The name evidently designates the people called Gimirra by the Assyrians, Kimmerians by the Greeks. They were a barbaric horde of Aryans who in the 7th century BC left their abode in what is now Southern Russia and poured. through the Caucasus into Western Asia, causing...

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Gomer in Naves Topical Bible

-1. Son of Japheth Ge 10:2,3; 1Ch 1:5,6 -2. A people descended from Gomer Eze 38:6 -3. Wife (concubine?) of Hosea Ho 1:3...

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Gomer in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(perfect). 1. The eldest son of Japheth, Ge 10:2,3 the progenitor of the early Cimmerians, of the later Cimbri and the other branches of the Celtic family, and of the modern Gael and Cymri. 2. The wife of Hosea. Ho 1:3...

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Gomer in Easton's Bible Dictionary

complete; vanishing. (1.) The daughter of Diblaim, who (probably in vision only) became the wife of Hosea (1:3). (2.) The eldest son of Japheth, and father of Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah (Gen. 10:2, 3), whose descendants formed the principal branch of the population of South- eastern Europe. He is generally regarded as the ancestor of t...

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