Hosea 1:3
New International Version
So he married Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.

New Living Translation
So Hosea married Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, and she became pregnant and gave Hosea a son.

English Standard Version
So he went and took Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.

Berean Standard Bible
So Hosea went and married Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.

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

New King James Version
So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.

New American Standard Bible
So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.

NASB 1995
So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.

NASB 1977
So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.

Legacy Standard Bible
So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and gave birth to a son for him.

Amplified Bible
So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.

Christian Standard Bible
So he went and married Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
So he went and married Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.

American Standard Version
So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; and she conceived, and bare him a son.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And he went on and he took to him Gomer daughter of Deblim and she conceived and she bore to him a son

Brenton Septuagint Translation
So he went and took Gomer, daughter of Debelaim; and she conceived, and bore him a son.

Contemporary English Version
So I married Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, and we had a son.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So he went, and took Gomer the daughter of Debelaim: and she conceived and bore him a son.

English Revised Version
So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; and she conceived, and bare him a son.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
So Hosea married Gomer, daughter of Diblaim. She became pregnant and had a son.

Good News Translation
So Hosea married a woman named Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim. After the birth of their first child, a son,

International Standard Version
So he went out and married Diblaim's daughter Gomer. She conceived with him and gave birth to a son.

JPS Tanakh 1917
So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; and she conceived, and bore him a son.

Literal Standard Version
And he goes and takes Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceives and bears a son to him;

Majority Standard Bible
So Hosea went and married Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.

New American Bible
So he went and took Gomer, daughter of Diblaim; and she conceived and bore him a son.

NET Bible
So Hosea married Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim. Then she conceived and gave birth to a son for him.

New Revised Standard Version
So he went and took Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.

New Heart English Bible
So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; and she conceived, and bore him a son.

Webster's Bible Translation
So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; who conceived, and bore him a son.

World English Bible
So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; and she conceived, and bore him a son.

Young's Literal Translation
And he goeth and taketh Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceiveth and beareth to him a son;

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Context
Hosea's Wife and Children
2When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, He told him, “Go, take a prostitute as your wife and have children of adultery, because this land is flagrantly prostituting itself by departing from the LORD.” 3So Hosea went and married Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son. 4Then the LORD said to Hosea, “Name him Jezreel, for soon I will bring the bloodshed of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and I will put an end to the kingdom of Israel.…

Cross References
Genesis 4:1
And Adam had relations with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain. "With the help of the LORD I have brought forth a man," she said.

Ezekiel 23:4
The older was named Oholah, and her sister was named Oholibah. They became Mine and gave birth to sons and daughters. As for their identities, Oholah is Samaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem.


Treasury of Scripture

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

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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Hosea 1
1. Hosea, to show God's judgment for spiritual unfaithfulness, takes Gomer,
4. and has by her Jezreel;
6. Loruhamah;
8. and Lo-Ammi.
10. The restoration of Judah and Israel under one head.














(3) Gomer the daughter of Diblaim.--Gomer means complete, or perfect, but whether in external beauty or in wickedness of character is not easy to determine.

Verse 3. - So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; which conceived, and bare him a son. Kimchi conjectures that "Gomer was the name of a harlot well known at that time;" he also explains the name, according to his view of its symbolic import, as follows: "Gomer has the meaning of completion;" as if the prophet said, He will fully execute on them the punishment of their transgressions that he may forgive their iniquity." The names of the children born to the prophet are significant and symbolical; and their symbolic significance is explained. The names mentioned in this verse are also significant, though their significance is not expressly stated, as in the former case; the cause of the omission being the fact that these names were not, like the others, now received for the first time, but simply retained. Gomer denotes "completion" or" consummation," from a verbal root signifying "to perfect" or "come to an end; and Diblaim is the dual of deblelah, the plural being debhelim, from the verb dabhal, to press together into a mass, especially a round mass. The meaning of the word, then, is "two cakes," that is, of dried figs pressed together in lumps. It may be observed, in passing, that the Greek παλάθη seems to come from the Aramaic form debhalta, by the omission of the initial daleth. But what is the mystic meaning which the prophet veils under the two names Consummation and Compressed fig-cakes (cakes of compressed figs)? The one may hint not obscurely consummation in sin and in the suffering which is the ultimate consequence of sin; while the other may imply the sweetness of sensual indulgences, especially such as idolatrous celebrants were prone to. If, then, the symbolical interpretation of these names be allowable, we may accept that given by Jerome. He says, "Out of Israel is taken typically by Hosea a wife consummated in fornication, and a perfect daughter of pleasure which seems sweet and pleasant to those who enjoy it." There is, moreover, an obvious appropriateness in the names thus symbolically understood. The prophet, whose name signifies "salvation," marries a woman who was a daughter of plea. sure and a votary of sin; this alliance represents the relation into which Jehovah, with his saving power, had mercifully taken Israel; but that people, unmindful and unthankful for such mercy, and intent on the indulgence of a sinful course, went from bad to worse in apostasy and idolatry till God at length left them in their impenitence and abandoned them to their fate. The conception and birth of Gomer's son to the prophet, though several authorities omit "him," give no countenance to the idea of the child being supposititious; and so far there seems to be some confirmation of the opinion of Keil referred to under ver. 2.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
So [Hosea] went
וַיֵּ֙לֶךְ֙ (way·yê·leḵ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk

and married
וַיִּקַּ֔ח (way·yiq·qaḥ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3947: To take

Gomer
גֹּ֖מֶר (gō·mer)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 1586: Gomer -- a son of Japheth, also his descendants, also the wife of Hosea

daughter
בַּת־ (baṯ-)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 1323: A daughter

of Diblaim,
דִּבְלָ֑יִם (diḇ·lā·yim)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 1691: Diblaim -- the father-in-law of Hosea

and she conceived
וַתַּ֥הַר (wat·ta·har)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 2029: To conceive, become pregnant

and bore
וַתֵּֽלֶד־ (wat·tê·leḏ-)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 3205: To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage

him
ל֖וֹ (lōw)
Preposition | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew

a son.
בֵּֽן׃ (bên)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1121: A son


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