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Lexicon :: Strong's H2563 - ḥōmer

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חֹמֶר
Transliteration
ḥōmer
Pronunciation
kho'mer
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: TWOT- 683c

Strong’s Definitions

חֹמֶר chômer, kho'mer; from H2560; properly, a bubbling up, i.e. of water, a wave; of earth, mire or clay (cement); also a heap; hence, a chomer or dry measure:—clay, heap, homer, mire, motion.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 30x

The KJV translates Strong's H2563 in the following manner: clay (11x), homer (11x), morter (4x), mire (2x), heap (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 30x
The KJV translates Strong's H2563 in the following manner: clay (11x), homer (11x), morter (4x), mire (2x), heap (2x).

  1. cement, mortar, clay

    1. mortar, cement

    2. clay

    3. mire

  2. heap

    1. swelling, surging (of water)

  3. homer - a unit of dry measure about 65 imperial gallons (300 l)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
חֹמֶר chômer, kho'mer; from H2560; properly, a bubbling up, i.e. of water, a wave; of earth, mire or clay (cement); also a heap; hence, a chomer or dry measure:—clay, heap, homer, mire, motion.
STRONGS H2563: Abbreviations
† I. חֹ֫מֶר noun masculine cement, mortar, clay; — ח׳ absolute Genesis 11:3 + 13 times; construct Isaiah 10:6 + 2 times; —
1. mortar, cement for holding building-stones (brick) together Genesis 11:3 (J), Exodus 1:14 (P; both || לְבֵנִים); Nahum 3:14 (|| טיט).
2. clay:
a. as material of vessels Jeremiah 18:4, 6, היצר ח׳ Isaiah 29:16, in simile of God's fashioning man Isaiah 45:9; Isaiah 64:7; Job 10:9; as material of human bodies בָּתֵּי ח׳ Job 4:19; compare Job 33:6; as material of bulwarks (disparagingly) Job 13:12; חותם ח׳＝seal-clay i.e. clay upon which seal is pressed.
b.＝mire חוצות ח׳ Isaiah 10:6; הֹרָנִי לַח׳ Job 30:19 he hath cast me into the mire, i.e. deeply humiliated me (עָפָר and אֵפֶר in || clause); as simile of commonness, abundance Job 27:16 (|| עָפָר).

II. חֹ֫מֶר noun [masculine] heap (compare 1. חֲמוֺר) — ח׳ construct מַיִם רַבִּים ח׳ Habakkuk 3:15 a heap of great waters (|| יָם) — but text dubious, see I. חמר; plural הֳמָרִים חֳמָרִים Exodus 8:10 (J), of dead frogs gathered in heaps.

III. חֹ֫מֶר noun masculine homer, a dry measure (perhaps from above √, but dubious; compare Assyrian amâru, surround, contain, II. R 3619 a. b Strm4760, Imêru, a measure ZimBP 6 n) — ח׳ absolute Isaiah 5:10 + 5 times Ezekiel; construct Hosea 3:2 + 3 times; plural חֳמָרִים Numbers 11:32; — ח׳ of barley Hosea 3:2; Ezekiel 45:13, compare שְׂעֹרִים זֶרַע ח׳ Leviticus 27:16 i.e. land on which a ח׳ of barley seed was sown (taxed at 50 shekels); ח׳ of wheat Ezekiel 45:13; in general זֶרַע ח׳ Isaiah 5:10;＝10 ephahs (or baths, see בַּת below בתת) Ezekiel 45:11 (3 times in verse); Ezekiel 45:14 (twice in verse) (in Ezekiel 45:14 strike out Co); on actual size of ח׳,＝393.9 litres, see HultschMetrol. 2nd ed. 448, 452f. See further II. בַּת and references, BenzArch 183 f NowArch. i, 203 f.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

11:3; 11:3

Exodus

1:14; 8:10

Leviticus

27:16

Numbers

11:32

Job

4:19; 10:9; 13:12; 27:16; 30:19; 33:6

Isaiah

5:10; 5:10; 10:6; 10:6; 29:16; 45:9; 64:7

Jeremiah

18:4; 18:6

Ezekiel

45:11; 45:13; 45:13; 45:14; 45:14

Hosea

3:2; 3:2

Nahum

3:14

Habakkuk

3:15

H2563

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H2563 matches the Hebrew חֹמֶר (ḥōmer),
which occurs 31 times in 26 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 11:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:3 - And they said one to another, Come on, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:14 - and they embittered their life with hard labour in clay and bricks, and in all manner of labour in the field: all their labour with which they made them serve was with harshness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 8:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:14 - And they gathered them in heaps; and the land stank.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:16 - And if a man hallow to Jehovah part of a field of his possession, thy valuation shall be according to what may be sown in it: the homer of barley seed at fifty shekels of silver.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 11:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:32 - And the people rose up all that day, and the whole night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered little gathered ten homers; and they spread them abroad for themselves round about the camp.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 4:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:19 - How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed as the moth!

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:9 - Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as clay, and wilt bring me into dust again.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 13:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:12 - Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, your bulwarks are bulwarks of mire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 27:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:16 - Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:19 - He hath cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 33:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:6 - Behold, before God I am as thou; I also am formed out of the clay.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:14 - It is changed like the signet-clay; and all things stand forth as in a garment:

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:10 - Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield an ephah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 10:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:6 - I will send him against a hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge; to take the spoil, and to seize the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 29:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:16 - Oh your perverseness! -- Shall the potter be esteemed as the clay, so that the work should say of him that made it, He made me not; or the thing formed say of him that formed it, He hath no understanding?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 41:25

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:25 - I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come, -- from the rising of the sun, he who will call upon my name; and he shall come upon princes as on mortar, and as the potter treadeth clay.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:9 - Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let a potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that formeth it, What makest thou? Or thy work, He hath no hands?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 64:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:8 - And now, Jehovah, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 18:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:4 - And the vessel that he made was marred, as clay, in the hand of the potter; and he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 18:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:6 - House of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith Jehovah. Behold, as the clay in the potter's hand, so are ye in my hand, house of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 45:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:11 - The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, so that the bath may contain the tenth part of a homer, and the ephah the tenth part of a homer: the measure thereof shall be according to the homer.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 45:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:13 - This is the heave-offering which ye shall offer: the sixth part of an ephah out of a homer of wheat, and ye shall give the sixth part of an ephah out of a homer of barley;

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 45:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:14 - and the set portion of oil, by the bath of oil, the tenth part of a bath out of a cor, which is a homer of ten baths, for ten baths are a homer;

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 3:2

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 3:2 - So I bought her to me for fifteen silver pieces, and for a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley.

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:14 - Draw thee water for the siege, strengthen thy fortresses; go into the clay, and tread the mortar, make strong the brick-kiln.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hab 3:15

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:15 - Thou didst walk through the sea with thy horses, The heap of great waters.
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