Hosea 1:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; which conceived, and bare him a son.

Hosea 1:3 —

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Isaiah 8:1-3
Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz. …

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Backsliders Call Church Converts Diblaim Dowry Forgetting God Gomer

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 2-7)

These words, The beginning of the word of the Lord by Hosea, may refer either, 1. To that glorious set of prophets which was raised up about this time. About this time there lived and prophesied Joel, Amos, Micah, Jonah, Obadiah, and Isaiah; but Hosea was the first of them that foretold the destruction of Israel; the beginning of this word of the Lord was by him. We read in the history of this Jer…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 3)

3. Gomer ... daughter of Diblaim--symbolical names; literally, “completion, daughter of grape cakes”; the dual expressing the double layers in which these dainties were baked. So, one completely given up to sensuality. Maurer explains “Gomer” as literally, “a burning coal.” Compare Pr 6:27, 29, as to an adulteress; Job 31:9, 12.