Identifications of Gomer Gomer son of Japhet and his three sons comprise four groups since Gomer is also a group in his own right. This is similar arrangement to that of the Canaan, Mitsraim, and other genealogies mentioned in the Bible. Rashi commented that by Afriki the Mountains of darkness were intended. This is usually understood to mean the Caucasus. Alternative identifications for "Germaniah" are "Mannae" in Armenia and Germanikey in the Bosporus area.
A connection with the European country of Germany was probably also intended. This does not mean that everyone in those regions were related to Gomer but rather that descendants of Gomer had been there. The Cimmerians at a later stage did invade these regions whence they moved further westward. However, the later Christian writer Hippolytus of Rome in c.
The Cimbri were a tribe settled in Denmark ca. The NASB stands virtually alone among English versions in including Rosh in verse three, a name that has sometimes been identified with Russia because of the sound similarity. The ancient Greek Septuagint also transliterated the Hebrew term as a name Ros , but the Latin Vulgate, the Syriac Peshitta , and the Aramaic Targum Jonathan all interpreted the word as part of the descriptor chief of Gog.
Even if the Hebrew does imply the name of a country called Rosh, it is by no means certain that it has to represent modern Russia. Sometimes sound similarities can be accidental.
While Rosh occurs as the name of one of the sons of Benjamin [Gen. Gomer v. Beth-Togarmah also appears to represent an area of northeast Asia Minor. In the seventh century B. 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. Son of Japheth Genesis ; 1 Chronicles According to tractate Yoma , in the Talmud , Gomer is identified as the ancestor of the Gomermians, modern Germans. Some have identified the children of Ashkenaz with the Scythians Assyrian Ishkuza. However, in Hebrew the word Askhenaz designates the region of middle Europe now known as Germany. Irish Genealogy traces itself to Ibath, son of Gomer thought to be a form of Riphath.
Ancient Armenian and Georgian chronicles lists Togarmah as the ancestor of both people who originally inhabited the land between two Back and Caspian Seas and between two inaccessible mountains, Mount Elbrus and Mount Ararat respectively. According to Khazar records, Togarmah is regarded as the ancestor of the Turkic-speaking peoples. Gomer is also the name of the adulterous wife of the prophet Hosea, mentioned in the Hebrew Bible 's Book of Hosea. Some analysts [ who?
The relationship between Hosea and Gomer has been posited to be a parallel to the relationship between God and Israel. Even though Gomer runs away from Hosea and sleeps with another man, he loves her anyway and forgives her.
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