- verses
- 1
- first named
- Hosea 1:3
- last named
- Hosea 1:3
- period
- Divided Monarchy
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Diblaim?
Diblaim is mentioned in Hos.1.3 as the father of Gomer, the woman whom the prophet Hosea married at the Lord's command. The verse states, "So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son."
The name Diblaim is not mentioned elsewhere in the Bible, and no further information is provided about him. His inclusion in the text serves primarily to identify Gomer and to emphasize that Hosea's marriage to her was a real, historical event.
Hosea's marriage to Gomer was intended to be a symbolic representation of God's relationship with Israel. Just as Gomer was unfaithful to Hosea, Israel had been unfaithful to God by worshipping other gods and breaking their covenant with Him. Through this marriage, God instructed Hosea to demonstrate His unwavering love and commitment to His people, despite their unfaithfulness.
The children born to Hosea and Gomer were also given symbolic names that conveyed God's messages of judgment and restoration for Israel. While Diblaim is not a central figure in this narrative, his mention helps to ground the account in a specific historical and familial context.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
Places
Where this happens
A person is placed by the events they take part in, and an event has to clear three things to place them: it must say where it happened, that place must be one the gazetteer can put a coordinate on, and the verse must report it rather than foretell, command or ask it. Nothing anchored here clears all three. Where the text names a setting no gazetteer surveys — a vineyard, a palace, a plot of ground — it is left off rather than guessed at; where a place is named only in a prophecy, the map does not draw what was said to be coming as though it had happened; and a place reached only through a relation is not inherited, because standing beside somebody is not being somewhere.
No verse Atlas has read as a report puts this person anywhere.
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The pattern
Where Diblaim is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
1 verse across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. Named in Hosea (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — one, across 1 book.
Onward
Where this page goes
Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
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