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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 - They said one to another, "Come, let's make brick, and burn them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:14 - and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:14

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:16 - If a man shall sanctify to the LORD part of the field of his possession, then your estimation shall be according to the sowing of it: the sowing of a homer of barley shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:32

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 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 the moth!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:9 - Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:12

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 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 BoxJob 30:19

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:6 - Behold, I am toward God even as you are: I am also formed out of the clay.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:14 - It is changed as clay under the seal, And stands forth as a garment.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:10

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:6

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:16 - You turn things upside down! Shall the potter be esteemed as clay; that the thing made should say of him who made it, He didn't make me; or the thing formed say of him who formed it, He has no understanding?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:25

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:25 - I have raised up one from the north, and he has come; from the rising of the sun one who calls on my name: and he shall come on rulers as on mortar, and as the potter treads clay.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:9 - Woe to him who strives with his Maker -- a potsherd among the potsherds of the eretz! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, "What are you making?" or your work, "He has no hands?"

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:8 - But now, LORD, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:4

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:6 - House of Yisra'el, can't I do with you as this potter? says the LORD. Behold, as the clay in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand, house of Yisra'el.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:11 - The efah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of a homer, and the efah the tenth part of a homer: the measure of it shall be after the homer.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:13 - This is the offering that you shall offer: the sixth part of an efah from a homer of wheat; and you shall give the sixth part of an efah from a homer of barley;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:14

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 3:2

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:14 - Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:15

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:15 - You trampled the sea with your horses, Churning mighty waters.
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