What Does Genesis 10:3 Mean in the King James?
And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
Gomer’s name resonates with completion, yet the verse shows a line opening into three more names.
THE MEANING
This verse places Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah within Gomer’s line. Belonging appears as a chain, with each generation named in relation to the one before it.
THE ROOT
גֹּמֶר
Gomer
GROWS FROM
גמר
To complete or bring to an end.
Gomer is commonly associated with גמר, the Hebrew root for completion. Here, a name resonating with completion is followed by three names that open the next generation; the resonance does not mean the lineage ends here.
ALSO GROWS
gāmar: To complete; to bring to an end.
גָּמַר
This verb makes the root’s action explicit: bringing something to completion.
yigmor: He will complete; he will perfect.
יִגְמֹר
The same root appears in Psalm 138:8, where the LORD will “perfect” what concerns the speaker.
THE PATTERN
Scripture makes lineage visible by naming who comes from whom.
And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:Now these are the generations of Pharez: Pharez begat Hezron,The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.THE THREAD
The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands.Gomer is associated with גמר (gāmar, to complete), the root behind “perfect” here. The same consonants that resonate in a name become an explicit action: the LORD completes what concerns the speaker.
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