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gomer |
5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Gomer \Go"mer\, n. A Hebrew measure. See {Homer}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Gomer \Go"mer\, n. (Gun.) A conical chamber at the breech of the bore in heavy ordnance, especially in mortars; -- named after the inventor. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Homer \Ho"mer\, n. [Heb. kh[=o]mer.] A Hebrew measure containing, as a liquid measure, ten baths, equivalent to fifty-five gallons, two quarts, one pint; and as a dry measure, ten ephahs, equivalent to six bushels, two pecks, four quarts. [Written also {chomer}, {gomer}.] From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Gomer 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 the Celtae and the Cimmerii who in early times settled to the north of the Black Sea, and gave their name to the Crimea, the ancient Chersonesus Taurica Traces of their presence are found in the names Cimmerian Bosphorus, Cimmerian Isthmus, etc In the seventh century B.C. they were driven out of their original seat by the Scythians, and overran western Asia Minor, whence they were afterwards expelled. They subsequently reappear in the times of the Romans as the Cimbri of the north and west of Europe, whence they crossed to the British Isles, where their descendants are still found in the Gaels and Cymry. Thus the whole Celtic race may be regarded as descended from Gomer. From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: Gomer, to finish; complete
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