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דבלים״, דבה רעה בת דבה רעה. ושמואל אמר: שמתוקה בפי הכל כדבלה. ורבי יוחנן אמר: שהכל דשין בה כדבלה.
Diblaim”; the name Diblaim can be taken as the dual form of the word dibba, ill repute. It suggests that she was a woman of ill repute, daughter of a woman of ill repute. And Shmuel said: The name Diblaim is the plural of the word deveila, a cake of pressed figs, indicating that she was as sweet as a cake of pressed figs, and therefore everyone used her services. R' Yoḥanan, based on a similar derivation, said the name signifies that everyone would tread [dashin] upon her, a euphemism for sex, like a cake of pressed figs.
דבר אחר: ״גומר״, אמר רבי יהודה: שבקשו לגמר ממונן של ישראל בימיה, רבי יוחנן אמר: בזזו וגמרו, שנאמר: ״כי אבדם מלך ארם וישמם כעפר לדש״.
Alternatively, with regard to the name Gomer, Rav Yehuda said: The name can be understood as deriving from the root gamar, to finish. It alludes to the fact that the non-Jews sought to finish the money of the Jewish people in her days. R' Yoḥanan said: They did not just seek to do so, but were successful. They plundered and finished it, as it is stated: “For the king of Aram destroyed them and made them like the dust in threshing” (II Kings 13:7).
״ותהר ותלד לו בן ויאמר ה׳ אליו קרא שמו יזרעאל כי עוד מעט ופקדתי את דמי יזרעאל על בית יהוא והשבתי ממלכות בית ישראל ותהר עוד ותלד בת ויאמר לו קרא שמה לא רחמה כי לא אוסיף עוד ארחם את בית ישראל כי נשא אשא להם ותהר ותלד בן ויאמר (ה׳ אליו) קרא שמו לא עמי כי אתם לא עמי ואנכי לא אהיה לכם״,
The passage in Hosea continues: “And she conceived, and bore him a son. And YHWH said to him: Call his name Jezreel; for soon I will visit the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will obliterate the kingdom of the house of Israel…And she conceived again, and bore a daughter. And He said to him: Call her name Lo-ruhamah, for I will no more have compassion upon the house of Israel that I should bear them…And she conceived, and bore a son. And He said: Call his name Lo-ammi; for you are not My people, and I will not be yours” (Hosea 1:3–9).