חֹמֶר
chômer · kho'mer
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
Lexicon
Derivation: from H2560 (חָמַר);
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
- 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
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: clay, heap, homer, mire, motion.
Letters
- חHet8
Picture: courtyard wall or enclosure
- Concrete
- wall · fence · tent wall
- Extended
- to separate · protection · the inside vs. the outside · private
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to separate and protect › water, chaos, the mighty deep › the head, the highest
To separate and protect of water, chaos, the mighty deep of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of חֹמֶר above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
31 occurrences · 31 OT · 0 NT · 27 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of an homer5 · 17%
- of clay3 · 10%
- they for morter1 · 3%
- in morter1 · 3%
- upon heaps1 · 3%
- thereof: an homer1 · 3%
- homers1 · 3%
- me as the clay1 · 3%
- as the clay1 · 3%
- me into the mire1 · 3%
- out of the clay1 · 3%
- as clay1 · 3%
- like the mire1 · 3%
- clay1 · 3%
- as upon morter1 · 3%
- shall the clay1 · 3%
- we are the clay1 · 3%
- behold, as the clay1 · 3%
- thereof shall be after the homer1 · 3%
- which is an homer1 · 3%
- are an homer1 · 3%
- and for an homer1 · 3%
- the morter1 · 3%
- through the heap1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.