Middle English Dictionary Entry
gōmor n.
Entry Info
| Forms | gōmor n. Pl. gomor(s. |
| Etymology | OE; ult. Heb. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A Biblical measure of weight or volume; also, a container holding this weight or volume. [The wide range of values shown in the quots. is partly due to the confusion of two different Heb. measures in ML.]
Associated quotations
- a1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)3333,3344 : A met ðor was, it het Gomor..Moysen dede ful ðe gomor In a gold pot for muning ðor.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Ex.16.22 : Þe sext day..þei geþerde double metis, þat is to say, two Gomors [WB(2): twei gomor] by eche man.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)330a/b : Fyue suche makeþ quinarius þat hatte gomor [L quinarem siue gomor].
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)330b/a : Gomor [L Gomor] is a mesure of fourty modius, as ysid. seith, oþer it is a mesure of þre or foure modius, as þe glose seiþ.
- a1425(a1382) WBible(1) (Corp-O 4)Ex.16.18 : Thei mesurden it at the mesure of gomor, that is, of threttenthe [vr. thrittene] pownde, with the tenthe part of two pownde.
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Ex.16.16 : Ech man gadere therof..gomor [vr. a goomor, that is, other half quart; WB(1): the tenthe part of thre busshels].
- c1483(?a1450) OT in Caxton Gold.Leg.(Caxton)f.58vb : Euery man shold gadre as moche for euery heed as is the mesure of gomor .. and the syxthe day gadre ye doble so moche, that is two mesures of gomor.
- c1483(?a1450) OT in Caxton Gold.Leg.(Caxton)f.58vb : It was called manna: Moyses toke one gomor therof & put it in the tabernacle for to be kept for a perpetuel memorye & remembraunce.
- a1500 Mirror Salv.(Beeleigh)p.61 : Moyses commandid the folke go forth..And ilk one bot o Gomor of manna home with thaym bring.