According to the Book of Hosea, the woman Hosea married was named Gomer.
Hosea 1 says that God instructed the prophet Hosea to marry Gomer, identified as the daughter of Diblaim. Their marriage and children became symbolic elements of Hosea’s prophetic message about Israel’s relationship with God.
The book gives symbolic names to their children: Jezreel, Lo-ruhamah, and Lo-ammi. These names communicate judgment and estrangement, while later passages also contain promises of restoration. Hosea’s domestic life therefore functions as a lived prophetic sign rather than merely as background biography.
Readers sometimes confuse Gomer with biblical women such as Ruth, Tamar, or Jezebel, but those figures belong to different narratives. Gomer is specifically connected with Hosea, one of the twelve Minor Prophets. Interpretations of her exact status vary, but her name and marriage to Hosea are explicit in the opening chapter.