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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 BoxGen 11:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:3 - And a man said to his neighbour, Come, let us make bricks and bake them with fire. And the brick was to them for stone, and their mortar was bitumen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:14 - And they embittered their life by hard labours, in the clay and in brick-making, and all the works in the plains, according to all the works, wherein they caused them to serve with violence.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:14 - (LXX 8:10) And they gathered them together in heaps, and the land stank.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:16 - And if a man should hallow to the Lord a part of the field of his possession, then the valuation shall be according to its seed, fifty didrachms of silver for a homer of barley.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:32 - And the people rose up all the day, and all the night, and all the next day, and gathered quails; he that gathered [fn]least, gathered ten [fn]measures; and they [fn]refreshed themselves round about the camp.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:19 - But as for them that dwell in houses of clay, of whom we also are formed of the same clay, he smites them like a moth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:9 - Remember that thou hast made me as clay, and thou dost turn me again to earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:12 - And your glorying shall prove in the end to you like ashes, and your body like a body of clay.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:16 - Even if he should gather silver as earth, and prepare gold as clay;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:19 - And thou hast counted me as clay; my portion is in dust and ashes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:6 - Thou art formed out of the clay as also I: we have been formed out of the same substance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:14 - Or didst thou take clay of the ground, and form a living creature, and set it with the power of speech upon the earth?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:10 - For where ten yoke of oxen plough the land shall yield one jar-full, and he that sows six homers shall produce three measures.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:6 - I will send my wrath against a sinful nation, and I will charge my people to take plunder and spoil, and to trample the cities, and to make them dust.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:16 - Shall ye not be counted as clay of the potter? [fn] Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Thou didst not form me? or the work to the maker, Thou hast not made me wisely?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:25

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:25 - But I have raised up him that comes from the north, and him that comes from the rising of the sun: they shall be called by my name: let the princes come, and as potter's clay, and as a potter treading clay, so shall ye be trodden down.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:9 - What excellent thing have I prepared as clay of the potter? Will the ploughman plough the earth all day? [fn] shall the clay say to the potter, What art thou doing that thou dost not work, nor hast hands? shall the thing formed answer him that formed it?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:8 - (LXX 64:7) And now, O Lord, thou art our Father, and we are clay, all of us the work of thine hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:4 - And the vessel which he was making with his hands fell: so he made it again another vessel, as it seemed good to him to make it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:6 - Shall I not be able, O house of Israel, to do to you as this potter? behold, as the clay of the potter are ye in my hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:11 - And in like manner there shall be one chœnix as a measure of capacity; the tenth of the gomor shall be the chœnix, and the tenth of the gomor shall be in fair proportion to the gomor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:13 - And these are the first-fruits which ye shall offer; a sixth part of a gomor of wheat, and the sixth part of it shall consist of an ephah of a cor of barley.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:14 - And ye shall give as the appointed measure of oil one bath of oil out of ten baths; for ten baths are a gomor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 3:2

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 3:2 - So I hired her to myself for fifteen pieces of silver, and a homer of barley, and a flagon of wine.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:14 - Draw thee water for a siege, and well secure thy strong-holds: enter into the clay, and be thou trodden in the chaff, make the fortifications stronger than brick.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:15

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:15 - And thou dost cause thine horses to enter the sea, disturbing much water.
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