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title: גֹּמֶר — Gomer · The Tanakh dictionary
description: גֹּמֶר (lemma:גֹּמֶר), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Gomer. BDB 1906: n.pr. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# גֹּמֶר

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«גֹּמֶר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Gomer** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** lemma:גֹּמֶר · **BDB:** גֹּ֫מֶר

### Glosses

Gomer (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Gomer [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/lemma_3a_5d2_5b9_5bc_5de_5b6_5e8/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/lemma_3a_5d2_5b9_5bc_5de_5b6_5e8/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr. m. a. son of Japhet Gn 10:2, 3 = 1 Ch 1:5, 6; Ez 38:6; LagOnom. Sacr. 2, 95, 2nd ed. 367, v. BN 77 proposes גמרים for גמדים Ez 27:11 q.v.; he identif. גֹּמֵר with Cappadocia (cf. 𝔗 Ez 27:11, KiepLb. d. alt. Geogr. 91) = Armen. Gamiṛ —χ (with pl. ending) v. also LagArm. Stud. 32 § 448; cf. further Assyrian Gimirrai, SchrKG 157 ff. DlPa 245 f. also LenOr. ii. 1, 332 ff. f. wife of Hosea, Ho 1:3.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «גֹּמֶר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/lemma_3a_5d2_5b9_5bc_5de_5b6_5e8/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Hosea 1:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.1.3/)

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וַיֵּ֙לֶךְ֙ וַיִּקַּ֔ח אֶת־גֹּ֖מֶר בַּת־דִּבְלָ֑יִם וַתַּ֥הַר וַתֵּֽלֶד־ל֖וֹ בֵּֽן׃

*Word for word:* and he.went and he.took (et) Gomer the.daughter of.Diblaim and she.conceived and she.bore to him a.son

*JPS 1917:* So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; and she conceived, and bore him a son.

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