Strong's Lexicon

H2563

H2563 — חוֹמֶר

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

Hebrewchomernoun mascOccurrences: 31TWOT: 683c

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:	H2563
Word:	חוֹמֶר
Part of Speech:	noun masc
Etymology:	from H2560
Language:	Hebrew
Occurrences:	31
Transliteration:	chomer
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:	kho'mer
Meaning:	1. (properly) a bubbling up, i.e. of water, a wave 2. of earth, mire or clay (cement) 3. also a heap 4. (hence) a chomer or dry measure
KJV Renderings:	clay, heap, homer, mire, motion.

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced

BDB2888

I. חֹ֫מֶר noun masculine cement, mortar, clay; — ׳ ח absolute Gen 11:3 + 13 t.; construct Isa 10:6 + 2 t.; —

1. mortar, cement for holding building-stones (brick) together Gen 11:3 ( J ), Exod 1:14 ( P ; both || לְבֵנִים); Nah 3:14 (|| טיט).

2. clay:

a. as material of vessels Jer 18:4; Jer 18:6, היצר ׳ ח Isa 29:16, in simile of God's fashioning man Isa 45:9; Isa 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 Isa 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).

BDB2891

II. חֹ֫מֶר noun [masculine] heap (compare 1. חֲמוֺר) — ׳ ח construct מַיִם רַבִּים ׳ ח Hab 3:15 a heap of great waters (|| יָם) — but text dubious, see I. חמר ; plural הֳמָרִים חֳמָרִים Exod 8:10 ( J ), of dead frogs gathered in heaps.

BDB2892

III. חֹ֫מֶר noun masculine homer, a dry measure (perhaps from above √, but dubious; compare Assyrian amâru , surround, contain, II. R Exod 36:19 a. b Strm⁴⁷⁶⁰, Imêru, a measure Zim^{BP 6 n}) — ׳ ח absolute Isa 5:10 + 5 t. Ezekiel; construct Hos 3:2 + 3 t.; plural חֳמָרִים Num 11:32 — ׳ ח of barley Hos 3:2; Ezek 45:13, compare שְׂעֹרִים ׳ זֶרַע ח Lev 27:16 i.e. land on which a ׳ ח of barley seed was sown (taxed at 50 shekels); ׳ ח of wheat Ezek 45:13 in general ׳ זֶרַע ח Isa 5:10 = 10 ephahs (or baths, see בַּת below בתת) Ezek 45:11 (3 t. in verse); Ezek 45:14 (twice in verse) (in Ezek 45:14 strike out Co); on actual size of ׳ ח, = 393.9 litres, see Hultsch^{Metrol. 2nd ed. 448,
452f}. See further II. בַּת and references, Benz^{Arch 183 f} Now^{Arch. i, 203 f}.

Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

חמר (g’h)

Leviticus 97:16

EHCC: aa homer of barley seed

Leviticus 10:9

KJV: Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations:

EHCC: thou hast made me as the clay;

Leviticus 20:19

KJV: And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother’s sister, nor of thy father’s sister: for he uncovereth his near kin: they shall bear their iniquity.uncovereth: Heb. hath made naked

EHCC: He Bail east me fato the mire?

Leviticus 33:6

EHCC: 1 also am formed out of the clay.

Leviticus 38:14

EHCC: It is turned as clay (to) the seal ;

Leviticus 29:16

EHCC: be esteemed as the potter's clay:

Leviticus 41:25

EHCC: come upon princes as (upon) morter,

Leviticus 45:9

EHCC: Shall the clay say to him

Jeremiah 18:4

KJV: And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.of clay…: or, was marred, as clay in the hand of the pottermade it…: Heb. returned and made, etc

EHCC: the weasel that he made of clay was mar-

Hosea 3:2

KJV: So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:half…: Heb. lethech

EHCC: and (for) an homer of barley,

Nahum 3:14

KJV: Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.

EHCC: go into clay, and tread the morter,

Habakkuk 3:15

KJV: Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses, through the heap of great waters.heap: or, mud

EHCC: the heap of great waters. (marg. or, mud)