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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 - Then they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” 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 made their lives bitter with hard bondage—in mortar, in brick, and in all manner of service in the field. All their service in which they made them serve was with rigor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 8:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:14 - They gathered them together in heaps, and the land stank.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:16 - ‘If a man dedicates to the LORD part of a field of his possession, then your valuation shall be according to the seed for it. A homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 11:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:32 - And the people stayed up all that day, all night, and all the next day, and gathered the quail (he who gathered least gathered ten homers); and they spread them out for themselves all around the camp.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 4:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:19 - How much more those who dwell in houses of clay,
Whose foundation is in the dust,
Who are crushed before a moth?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:9 - Remember, I pray, that You have made me like clay.
And will You turn me into dust again?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 13:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:12 - Your platitudes are proverbs of ashes,
Your defenses are defenses of clay.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 27:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:16 - Though he heaps up silver like dust,
And piles up clothing like clay—

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:19 - He has 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 - Truly I am as your spokesman[fn] before God;
I also have been formed out of clay.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:14 - It takes on form like clay under a seal,
And stands out like a garment.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:10 - For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath,
And a homer of seed shall yield one ephah.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 10:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:6 - I will send him against an ungodly nation,
And against the people of My wrath
I will give him charge,
To seize the spoil, to take 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 - Surely you have things turned around!
Shall the potter be esteemed as the clay;
For shall the thing made say of him who made it,
“He did not make me”?
Or shall the thing formed say of him who formed it,
“He has 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 shall call on My name;
And he shall come against princes as though mortar,
As the potter treads clay.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:9 - “Woe to him who strives with his Maker!
Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth!
Shall the clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’
Or shall your handiwork say, ‘He has no hands’?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 64:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:8 - But now, O LORD,
You are our Father;
We are the clay, and You our potter;
And all we are the work of Your hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 18:4

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 18:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:6 - “O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter?” says the LORD. “Look, as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O 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 the same measure, so that the bath contains one-tenth of a homer, and the ephah one-tenth of a homer; their measure shall be according to the homer.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 45:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:13 - “This is the offering which you shall offer: you shall give one-sixth of an ephah from a homer of wheat, and one-sixth of an ephah from a homer of barley.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 45:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:14 - “The ordinance concerning oil, the bath of oil, is one-tenth of a bath from a kor. A kor is a homer or 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 for myself for fifteen shekels of silver, and one and one-half homers of barley.

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:14 - Draw your water for the siege!
Fortify your strongholds!
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 - You walked through the sea with Your horses,
Through the heap of great waters.
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