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NASB | Hosea 1:3 So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Hosea 1:3 So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son. |
Bible Question: can you please tell me more history on Gomer the woman and her mother Diblaim? |
Bible Answer: I believe that Diblaim was a place, not a person. Sort of like calling me an American son does not mean that my father was America. Here is what John Gill said regarding this verse: In the course of prophesying he made mention of this person, who was a notorious common strumpet; and suggested hereby that they were just like her; or these were fictitious names he used to represent their case by Gomer signifies both "consummation" and "consumption"; and this harlot is so called, because of her consummate beauty, and her being completely mistress of all the tricks of one; or, being consummately wicked, a perfect whore, common to all; and because her ruin and destruction, persisting in such practices, were inevitable, and so a fit emblem of the present and future condition of Israel. Diblaim may be considered either as the name of a man, a word of the same form with Ephraim; or of a woman, the mother of Gomer; or else of a place, the wilderness of Diblath, Eze 6:14 and signifies "a cake of dried figs"; which, in that country, was reckoned delicious eating; and so denotes, either that both the sin and ruin of this people were owing to their luxury, or indulging themselves in carnal pleasures, through the great affluence they were possessed of; or that their original was from a wilderness, and for their sins should be reduced to a desolate state again. In Him, Doc |
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