Hebrew noun (masculine) · H2558
חֹמֶץ
chometskho'-mets
vinegar
6 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: chômets
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2558is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2558
vinegar
The King James renders it: vinegar.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
chomets is rendered "vinegar". It stands 6 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Two of the uses stand in Numbers, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Numbers 6:3he is to abstain from wine and strong drink. He must not drink vinegar made from wine or strong drink, and he must not drink any grape juice or eat fresh grapes or raisins.
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
he is to abstain from wine and strong drink. He must not drink vinegar made from wine or strong drink, and he must not drink any grape juice or eat fresh grapes or raisins.
Numbers 6:3חֹ֥מֶץ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- vinegar2
- and vinegar of1
- in the vinegar1
- like the vinegar1
- vinegar of1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- בַּחֹ֑מֶץ1
- וְחֹ֥מֶץ1
- חֹ֥מֶץ1
- חֹ֣מֶץ1
- חֹֽמֶץ׃1
- כַּחֹ֤מֶץ׀1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular2HNcmsa
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular2HRd/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/Ncmsc
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmsc
Numbers
two uses
he is to abstain from wine and strong drink. He must not drink vinegar made from wine or strong drink, and he must not drink any grape juice or eat fresh grapes or raisins.
- חֹ֥מֶץchometznoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: vinegar of
- וְחֹ֥מֶץvechometzconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and vinegar of
Ruth
one use
At mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come over here; have some bread and dip it into the vinegar sauce.” So she sat down beside the harvesters, and he offered her roasted grain, and she ate and was satisfied and had some left over.
- בַּחֹ֑מֶץbachometzpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the vinegar
Psalms
one use
They poisoned my food with gall and gave me vinegar to quench my thirst.
- חֹֽמֶץ׃chometznoun · masculine singulartagged: vinegar
Proverbs
two uses
Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes, so is the slacker to those who send him.
- כַּחֹ֤מֶץ׀kachometzpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the vinegar
Like one who removes a garment on a cold day or vinegar poured on a wound is one who sings songs to a heavy heart.
- חֹ֣מֶץchometznoun · masculine singulartagged: vinegar
The letters
Gematria 138· 948 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.