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Lexicon :: Strong's H2563 - ḥōmer

Aa
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 they said one to another, Come, let us make bricks, burning them well. And they had bricks for stone, putting them together with sticky earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:14 - And made their lives bitter with hard work, making building-material and bricks, and doing all sorts of work in the fields under the hardest conditions.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:14 - And they put them together in masses, and a bad smell went up from the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:16 - And if a man gives to the Lord part of the field which is his property, then let your value be in relation to the seed which is planted in it; a measure of barley grain will be valued at fifty shekels of silver.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:32 - And all that day and all night and the day after, the people were taking up the birds; the smallest amount which anyone got was ten homers: and they put them out all round the tents.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:19 - How much more those living in houses of earth, whose bases are in the dust! They are crushed more quickly than an insect;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:9 - O keep in mind that you made me out of earth; and will you send me back again to dust?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:12 - Your wise sayings are only dust, and your strong places are only earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:16 - Though he may get silver together like dust, and make ready great stores of clothing;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:19 - Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:6 - See, I am the same as you are in the eyes of God; I was cut off from the same bit of wet earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:14 - It is changed like wet earth under a stamp, and is coloured like a robe;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:10 - For ten fields of vines will only give one measure of wine, and a great amount of seed will only give a small measure of grain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:6 - I will send him against a nation of wrongdoers, and against the people of my wrath I will give him orders, to take their wealth in war, crushing them down like the dust in the streets.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:16 - You are turning things upside down! Is the wet earth the same to you as the one who is forming it? will the thing made say of him who made it, He made me not: or the thing formed say of him who gave it form, He has no knowledge?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:25

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:25 - I have sent for one from the north, and from the dawn he has come; in my name he will get rulers together and go against them; they will be like dust, even as the wet earth is stamped on by the feet of the potter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:9 - Cursed is he who has an argument with his Maker, the pot which has an argument with the Potter! Will the wet earth say to him who is working with it, What are you doing, that your work has nothing by which it may be gripped?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:8 - But now, O Lord, you are our father; we are the earth, and you are our maker; and we are all the work of your hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:4 - And when the vessel, which he was forming out of earth, got damaged in the hand of the potter, he made it again into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to make it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:6 - O Israel, am I not able to do with you as this potter does? says the Lord. See, like earth in the potter's hand are you in my hands, O Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:11 - The ephah and the bath are to be of the same measure, so that the bath is equal to a tenth of a homer, and the ephah to a tenth of a homer: the unit of measure is to be a homer.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:13 - This is the offering you are to give: a sixth of an ephah out of a homer of wheat, and a sixth of an ephah out of a homer of barley;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:14 - And the fixed measure of oil is to be a tenth of a bath from the cor, for ten baths make up the cor;

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 3:2

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 3:2 - So I got her for myself for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a half of barley;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:14 - Get water for the time when you are shut in, make strong your towns: go into the potter's earth, stamping it down with your feet, make strong the brickworks.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:15

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:15 - The feet of your horses were on the sea, on the mass of great waters.
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