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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 say each one to his neighbour, 'Give help, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly:' and the brick is to them for stone, and the bitumen hath been to them for mortar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:14 - and make their lives bitter in hard service, in clay, and in brick, and in every kind of service in the field; all their service in which they have served is with rigour.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 8:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:14 - and they heap them up together, and the land stinketh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:16 - 'And if of the field of his possession a man sanctify to Jehovah, then hath thy valuation been according to its seed; a homer of barley-seed at fifty shekels of silver;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:32 - And the people rise all that day, and all the night, and all the day after, and gather the quails -- he who hath least hath gathered ten homers -- and they spread them out for themselves round about the camp.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 4:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:19 - Also -- the inhabitants of houses of clay, (Whose foundation is in the dust, They bruise them before a moth.)

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:9 - Remember, I pray Thee, That as clay Thou hast made me, And unto dust Thou dost bring me back.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 13:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:12 - Your remembrances are similes of ashes, For high places of clay your heights.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 27:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:16 - If he heap up as dust silver, And as clay prepare clothing,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:19 - Casting me into mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 33:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:6 - Lo, I am, according to thy word, for God, From the clay I -- I also, have been formed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:14 - It turneth itself as clay of a seal And they station themselves as clothed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:10 - For ten acres of vineyard do yield one bath, And an homer of seed yieldeth an ephah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 10:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:6 - Against a profane nation I send him, And concerning a people of My wrath I charge him, To spoil spoil, and to seize prey, And to make it a treading-place as the clay of out places.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 29:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:16 - Your perversion! as clay is the potter esteemed? That the work saith of its maker, 'He hath not made me?' And the framed thing said of its framer, 'He did not understand?'

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 41:25

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:25 - I have stirred up one from the north, And he cometh, From the rising of the sun he calleth in My name, And he cometh in on prefects as on clay, And as a potter treadeth down mire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:9 - Wo to him who is striving with his Former, (A potsherd with potsherds of the ground!) Doth clay say to its Framer, 'What dost thou?' And thy work, 'He hath no hands?'

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 64:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:8 - And now, O Jehovah, thou art our Father, We are the clay, and Thou our Framer, And the work of Thy hand -- all of us.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 18:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:4 - and marred is the vessel that he is making, as clay in the hand of the potter, and he hath turned and he maketh it another vessel, as it was right in the eyes of the potter to make.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 18:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:6 - As this potter am I not able to do to you? O house of Israel, an affirmation of Jehovah. Lo, as clay in the hand of the potter, So are ye 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 is of one measure, for the bath to bear a tenth of the homer, and the ephah a tenth of the homer: according to the homer is its measurement.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 45:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:13 - 'This is the heave-offering that ye lift up; a sixth part of the ephah of a homer of wheat, also ye have given a sixth part of the ephah of a homer of barley,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 45:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:14 - and the portion of oil, the bath of oil, a tenth part of the bath out of the cor, 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 - And I buy her to me for fifteen silverlings, and a homer and a letech of barley;

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:14 - Waters of a siege draw for thyself, Strengthen thy fortresses, Enter into mire, and tread on clay, Make strong a brick-kiln.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hab 3:15

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:15 - Thou hast proceeded through the sea with Thy horses -- the clay of many waters.
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