BIBLE DICTIONARY + WORD STUDY
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HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H1691
div.la.yim — Diblaim
A man living at the time of Divided Monarchy, only mentioned at Hos.1.3; father of: Gomer (H1586H) § Diblaim = "two cakes" the father of Hosea's wife Gomer
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →Doubled cakes, the mother of Gomer, who was Hosea’s wife (Hos. 1:3).
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
