CIMMERIANS sĭ mĭr’ ĭ ənz (Gr. Κιμμήριοι). The Gr. name of a people possibly referred to in the OT under the name Gomer (Gen 10:2, 3; Ezek 38:6). Gomer (Gen 10:2, 3) was the oldest son of Japheth and father of Ashkenaz, Riphath and Togarmah. The people called Gomer are allied with the people of Togarmah in the army of Gog (Ezek 38). This people may have been the same as that bearing the name Gimirrai in Assyrian inscrs. of the 8th cent. b.c. and following. Their homeland was in the Ukraine, from where they migrated southward into ancient Urarṭu (modern E Turkey) and became foes of the Assyrians. The name Gomer is also borne by the daughter of Diblaim. She became the wife of Hosea the prophet (Hos 1:3) and bore him three sons.