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Gomer (gō`mər), in the Bible. 1 Wife of the prophet Hosea Hosea (hōzē`ə, –zā`ə), prophetic book of the Bible. 2 Son of Japheth and eponym of a people, probably the Cimmerians. Gomer Hosea’s wanton wife. [O.T.: Hosea 1:1–3] See : Promiscuity |
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As for me, I tromp, focusing and unfocusing, looking and not looking, through last autumn's leaves flattened by the winter's snow, and I find myself thinking of the line from Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood about Bessie Bighead watching for Gomer Owen, "who kissed her once by the pig-sty when she wasn't looking and never kissed her again although she was looking all the time. In 1871, after fifteen years of lackluster progress, the UBC's prospects in coastal Sierra Leone took a dramatic turn for the better with the appointment to the mission of an African-American couple, Joseph and Mary Gomer (Fig. It was heard in the ear of the prophet Hosea through his faithful marriage to his unfaithful wife Gomer (Hosea 1-3). |
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