Lexicon :: Strong's H2563 - ḥōmer

חֹמֶר

Transliteration

ḥōmer

Pronunciation

kho'mer

Part of Speech

masculine noun

Root Word (Etymology)

From חָמַר (H2560)

Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: TWOT- 683c

Strong's Info

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).

Outline of Biblical Usage [?]

cement, mortar, clay
1. mortar, cement
2. clay
3. mire
heap
1. swelling, surging (of water)
homer - a unit of dry measure about 65 imperial gallons (300 l)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)

Brown-Driver-Briggs Lexicon [?] (Jump to Scripture Index)

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 36^{19 a. b} Strm⁴⁷⁶⁰, Imêru, a measure Zim^{BP 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 Hultsch^{Metrol. 2nd ed. 448, 452f}. See further II. בַּת and references, Benz^{Arch 183 f} Now^{Arch. i, 203 f}.

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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

Gesenius' Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon [?]

Concordance Results Shown Using the KJV

Strong's Number H2563 matches the Hebrew חֹמֶר (ḥōmer),
which occurs 31 times in 26 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Gen 11:3

Gen 11:3 - And they said^H559 one^H376 to another,^H7453 Go to,^H3051 let us make^H3835 brick,^H3843 and burn^H8313 them throughly.^H8316 And they had brick^H3843 for stone,^H68 and slime^H2564 had^H1961 they for morter.^H2563

Exo 1:14

Exo 1:14 - And they made^H4843 ➔ their lives^H2416 bitter^H4843 with hard^H7186 bondage,^H5656 in morter,^H2563 and in brick,^H3843 and in all manner of service^H5656 in the field:^H7704 all their service,^H5656 wherein they made them serve,^H5647 was with rigour.^H6531

Exo 8:14

Exo 8:14 - And they gathered them together^H6651 upon heaps:^H2563 and the land^H776 stank.^H887

Lev 27:16

Lev 27:16 - And if a man^H376 shall sanctify^H6942 unto the LORD^H3068 some part of a field^H7704 of his possession,^H272 then thy estimation^H6187 shall be according^H6310 to the seed^H2233 thereof: an homer^H2563 of barley^H8184 seed^H2233 shall be valued at fifty^H2572 shekels^H8255 of silver.^H3701

Num 11:32

Num 11:32 - And the people^H5971 stood up^H6965 all that day,^H3117 and all that night,^H3915 and all the next^H4283 day,^H3117 and they gathered^H622 the quails:^H7958 he that gathered least^H4591 gathered^H622 ten^H6235 homers:^H2563 and they spread^H7849 them all abroad^H7849 for themselves round about^H5439 the camp.^H4264

Job 4:19

Job 4:19 - How much less^H637 in them that dwell^H7931 in houses^H1004 of clay,^H2563 whose foundation^H3247 is in the dust,^H6083 which are crushed^H1792 before^H6440 the moth?^H6211

Job 10:9

Job 10:9 - Remember,^H2142 I beseech thee, that thou hast made^H6213 me as the clay;^H2563 and wilt thou bring^H7725 ➔ me into dust^H6083 again?^H7725

Job 13:12

Job 13:12 - Your remembrances^H2146 are like^H4912 unto ashes,^H665 your bodies^H1354 to bodies^H1354 of clay.^H2563

Job 27:16

Job 27:16 - Though he heap up^H6651 silver^H3701 as the dust,^H6083 and prepare^H3559 raiment^H4403 as the clay;^H2563

Job 30:19

Job 30:19 - He hath cast^H3384 me into the mire,^H2563 and I am become like^H4911 dust^H6083 and ashes.^H665

Job 33:6

Job 33:6 - Behold, I am according to thy wish^H6310 in God's^H410 stead: I also am formed^H7169 out of the clay.^H2563

Job 38:14

Job 38:14 - It is turned^H2015 as clay^H2563 to the seal;^H2368 and they stand^H3320 as a garment.^H3830

Isa 5:10

Isa 5:10 - Yea,^H3588 ten^H6235 acres^H6776 of vineyard^H3754 shall yield^H6213 one^H259 bath,^H1324 and the seed^H2233 of an homer^H2563 shall yield^H6213 an ephah.^H374

Isa 10:6

Isa 10:6 - I will send^H7971 him against an hypocritical^H2611 nation,^H1471 and against the people^H5971 of my wrath^H5678 will I give him a charge,^H6680 to take^H7997 the spoil,^H7998 and to take^H962 the prey,^H957 and to tread them down^H7760^H4823 like the mire^H2563 of the streets.^H2351

Isa 29:16

Isa 29:16 - Surely your turning of things upside down^H2017 shall be esteemed^H2803 as the potter's^H3335 clay:^H2563 for shall the work^H4639 say^H559 of him that made^H6213 it, He made^H6213 me not? or shall the thing framed^H3336 say^H559 of him that framed^H3335 it, He had no understanding?^H995

Isa 41:25

Isa 41:25 - I have raised up^H5782 one from the north,^H6828 and he shall come:^H857 from the rising^H4217 of the sun^H8121 shall he call^H7121 upon my name:^H8034 and he shall come^H935 upon princes^H5461 as upon morter,^H2563 and as the potter^H3335 treadeth^H7429 clay.^H2916

Isa 45:9

Isa 45:9 - Woe^H1945 unto him that striveth^H7378 with his Maker!^H3335 Let the potsherd^H2789 strive with the potsherds^H2789 of the earth.^H127 Shall the clay^H2563 say^H559 to him that fashioneth^H3335 it, What makest^H6213 thou? or thy work,^H6467 He hath no hands?^H3027

Isa 64:8

Isa 64:8 - But now, O LORD,^H3068 thou art our father;^H1 we are the clay,^H2563 and thou our potter;^H3335 and we all are the work^H4639 of thy hand.^H3027

Jer 18:4

Jer 18:4 - And the vessel^H3627 that he made^H6213 of clay^H2563 was marred^H7843 in the hand^H3027 of the potter:^H3335 so he made^H6213 it again^H7725 another^H312 vessel,^H3627 as seemed^H5869 good^H3474 to the potter^H3335 to make^H6213 it.

Jer 18:6

Jer 18:6 - O house^H1004 of Israel,^H3478 cannot^H3201 I do^H6213 with you as this potter?^H3335 saith^H5002 the LORD.^H3068 Behold, as the clay^H2563 is in the potter's^H3335 hand,^H3027 so are ye in mine hand,^H3027 O house^H1004 of Israel.^H3478

Eze 45:11

Eze 45:11 - The ephah^H374 and the bath^H1324 shall be of one^H259 measure,^H8506 that the bath^H1324 may contain^H5375 the tenth part^H4643 of an homer,^H2563 and the ephah^H374 the tenth part^H6224 of an homer:^H2563 the measure^H4971 thereof shall be after the homer.^H2563

Eze 45:13

Eze 45:13 - This is the oblation^H8641 that ye shall offer;^H7311 the sixth part^H8345 of an ephah^H374 of an homer^H2563 of wheat,^H2406 and ye shall give the sixth part^H8341 of an ephah^H374 of an homer^H2563 of barley:^H8184

Eze 45:14

Eze 45:14 - Concerning the ordinance^H2706 of oil,^H8081 the bath^H1324 of oil,^H8081 ye shall offer the tenth part^H4643 of a bath^H1324 out of the cor,^H3734 which is an homer^H2563 of ten^H6235 baths;^H1324 for ten^H6235 baths^H1324 are an homer:^H2563

Hos 3:2

Hos 3:2 - So I bought^H3739 her to me for fifteen^H6240^H2568 pieces of silver,^H3701 and for an homer^H2563 of barley,^H8184 and an half homer^H3963 of barley:^H8184

Nah 3:14

Nah 3:14 - Draw^H7579 thee waters^H4325 for the siege,^H4692 fortify^H2388 thy strong holds:^H4013 go^H935 into clay,^H2916 and tread^H7429 the morter,^H2563 make strong^H2388 the brickkiln.^H4404

Hab 3:15

Hab 3:15 - Thou didst walk^H1869 through the sea^H3220 with thine horses,^H5483 through the heap^H2563 of great^H7227 waters.^H4325