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# גֹּמֶר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1586

**Gomer** — used 5 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Gomer [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1586/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גֹּ֫מֶר: n.pr. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1586/#m2)

**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.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[were\] Gomer (2); of Gomer (2); Gomer (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 10:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.3/#tree)

וּבְנֵ֖י גֹּ֑מֶר אַשְׁכֲּנַ֥ז וְרִיפַ֖ת וְתֹגַרְמָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.Gomer \[were\].Ashkenaz and Riphath and Togarmah

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.

[1 Chronicles 1:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.6/#tree)

וּבְנֵ֖י גֹּ֑מֶר אַשְׁכֲּנַ֥ז וְדִיפַ֖ת וְתוֹגַרְמָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.Gomer \[were\].Ashkenaz and Diphath and Togarmah

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, and Diphath, and Togarmah.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1586.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1586/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).