Hosea 1:3

Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim Various attempts have been made to extract a meaning from these names, which by its appropriateness to the circumstances of the Israelites might favour the view that the events related are fictitious and not real. Gomer may plausibly be interpreted -perfection" (i.e. consummate in wickedness), and Diblaim -cakes of figs" (i.e. the sweetness of sin). Rahmer has pointed out this view in the Talmud (see Frankel's Monatsschrift, xiv. 216 foll.), so that St Jerome's similar explanation must have come from his Jewish teacher. But the fact that the children of Hosea (like those of Isaiah) have names which are obviously symbolic does not justify us in forcing an allusion out of the name of the mother. It has been suggested, but the view is not borne out by usage, that Diblaim is the name of Gomer's birthplace; Diblathaim was a Moabitish town (see Jeremiah 48:22 and Moabite Stone l. 30). The termination is that of the dual.

bare him a son i.e. bare a son, whom for the mother's sake he recognized.