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Encyclopedia Britannica



GOMER

This article appears in Volume V12, Page 229 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GOA-GRA
GOMER , the biblical name of a race appearing in the table of nations (Gen. x. 2), as the " eldest son " of
Japheth
  and the " father " of Ashkenaz, Riphath and Togarmah; and in Ezek. xxxviii. 6 as a companion of " the
house
  of Togarmah in the uttermost parts of the north," and an ally of Gog; both Gomer and Togarmah being credited with " hordes," 1 E.V., i.e. " bands " or " armies." The " sons " of Gomer are probably tribes of north-
east
  Asia
Minor
  and Armenia, and Gomer is identified with the Cimmerians. These are referred to in cuneiform
inscriptions
  under the Assyrian name gimmira (gimirrai) as raiding Asia
Minor
  from the north and north-
east
  of the Black
1 rig! Agaph, a word peculiar to Ezekiel, Clarendon Press Heb. Lex.
Sea, and overrunning
Lydia
  in the 7th century B. c. (see CIaiMERII,
SCYTHIA
 ,
LYDIA
 ). They do not seem to have made any permanent settlements, unless some such are indicated by the fact that the Armenians called Cappadocia Gamir. It is, however, suggested that this name is borrowed from the Old Testament.'
The name Gomer (Gomer bath Diblaim) was also borne by the unfaithful wife of Hosea, whom he pardoned and took back (Hosea i. 3). Hosea uses these incidents as symbolic of the sin,
punishment
  and redemption of
Israel
 , but there is no need to regard Gomer as a purely imaginary person. (W. H. BE.)


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