GOMER, in the table of nations, Gen. x., the eldest "son" of Japheth, and in Ezek. xxxviii. 6 a part of Gog's army, represents the people known to the Greeks as Cimmerians, and in the cunei form inscriptions called Gi-mi-ra-a-a. Their earliest known home is the district north of the Black Sea. They appeared on the Assyrian horizon first in the reign of Sargon, when they overthrew the kingdom of Urartu and settled there. About 700 B.C. they migrated into Asia Minor, subduing the kingdom of Phrygia under Midas, and that of Lydia under Gyges.