Hebrew noun (masculine) · H2563
חֹמֶר
chomerkho'mer
clay; heap; homer
31 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: chômer
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2563is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 11 of 39Old Testament books
- 27spellings
- 3meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2563
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
The King James renders it: clay, heap, homer, mire, motion.
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
chomer is rendered "clay; heap; homer". It stands 31 times in the Hebrew text, across eleven books.
- Seven of the uses stand in Job, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists three meanings for it, beginning with "clay".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 11:3And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar.
- The Greek text spells it twenty-seven different ways.
The first use
And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar.
Genesis 11:3לַחֹֽמֶר׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
The word carries three meanings: clay, and heap, and homer.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| clayStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereGenesis 11:3And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly… |
| heapStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
| homerStrong's entry C | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- a homer3
- clay3
- the homer3
- from homer of2
- heaps2
- like clay of2
- like the clay2
- a heap of1
- a homer of1
- and a homer of1
- and like the clay1
- from clay1
and 9 more, 31 uses in all
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 31, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
27 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
- הַחֹ֙מֶר֙2
- הַחֹ֖מֶר2
- חֹ֖מֶר2
- כְּחֹ֥מֶר2
- בְּחֹ֙מֶר֙1
- בַחֹ֖מֶר1
- בַּחֹ֖מֶר1
- וְחֹ֥מֶר1
- וְ֝כַחֹ֗מֶר1
- חֹ֣מֶר1
- חֹ֗מֶר1
- חֹ֝֗מֶר1
and 15 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular7HNcmsa
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular6HRd/Ncmsa
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)5HR/Ncmsc
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular4HTd/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine plural3HNcmpa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HNcmsc
- preposition + noun · masculine singular2HR/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/Ncmsc
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular1HC/Rd/Ncmsa
Genesis
one use
And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar.
- לַחֹֽמֶר׃lachomerpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: to the mortar
Exodus
three uses
and made their lives bitter with hard labor in brick and mortar, and with all kinds of work in the fields. Every service they imposed was harsh.
- בְּחֹ֙מֶר֙bechomerpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: in mortar
They were piled into countless heaps, and there was a terrible stench in the land.
- חֳמָרִ֣םchomarimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: heaps
- חֳמָרִ֑םchomarimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: heaps
Leviticus
one use
If a man consecrates to the LORD a parcel of his land, then your valuation shall be proportional to the seed required for it—fifty shekels of silver for every homer of barley seed.
- חֹ֣מֶרchomernoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a homer of
Numbers
one use
All that day and night, and all the next day, the people stayed up gathering the quail. No one gathered less than ten homers, and they spread them out all around the camp.
- חֳמָרִ֑יםchomarimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: homers
Job
seven uses
how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!
- חֹ֗מֶרchomernoun · masculine singulartagged: clay
Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?
- כַחֹ֣מֶרkhachomerpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the clay
Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.
- חֹ֝֗מֶרchomernoun · masculine singulartagged: clay
Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up a wardrobe like clay,
- וְ֝כַחֹ֗מֶרvekhachomerconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and like the clay
He throws me into the mud, and I have become like dust and ashes.
- לַחֹ֑מֶרlachomerpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: to the mud
I am just like you before God; I was also formed from clay.
- מֵ֝חֹ֗מֶרmechomerpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: from clay
The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its hills stand out like the folds of a garment.
- כְּחֹ֣מֶרkechomerpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: like clay of
Isaiah
six uses
For ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain.”
- חֹ֖מֶרchomernoun · masculine singulartagged: a homer
I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.
- כְּחֹ֥מֶרkechomerpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: like mud of
You have turned things upside down, as if the potter were regarded as clay. Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, “He did not make me”? Can the pottery say of the potter, “He has no understanding”?
- כְּחֹ֥מֶרkechomerpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: like clay of
I have raised up one from the north, and he has come—one from the east who calls on My name. He will march over rulers as if they were mortar, like a potter who treads the clay.
- חֹ֔מֶרchomernoun · masculine singulartagged: mud
Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker—one clay pot among many. Does the clay ask the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘He has no hands’?
- חֹ֤מֶרchomernoun · masculine singulartagged: clay
But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand.
- הַחֹ֙מֶר֙hachomerthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the clay
Jeremiah
two uses
But the vessel that he was shaping from the clay became flawed in his hand; so he formed it into another vessel, as it seemed best for him to do.
- בַּחֹ֖מֶרbachomerpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: with the clay
“O house of Israel, declares the LORD, can I not treat you as this potter treats his clay? Just like clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel.
- כַחֹ֙מֶר֙khachomerpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the clay
Ezekiel
seven uses
The ephah and the bath shall be the same quantity so that the bath will contain a tenth of a homer, and the ephah a tenth of a homer; the homer will be the standard measure for both.
- הַחֹ֖מֶרhachomerthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the homer
- הַחֹ֙מֶר֙hachomerthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the homer
- הַחֹ֖מֶרhachomerthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the homer
This is the contribution you are to offer: a sixth of an ephah from each homer of wheat, and a sixth of an ephah from each homer of barley.
- מֵחֹ֣מֶרmechomerpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: from homer of
- מֵחֹ֖מֶרmechomerpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: from homer of
The prescribed portion of oil, measured by the bath, is a tenth of a bath from each cor (a cor consists of ten baths or one homer, since ten baths are equivalent to a homer).
- חֹ֑מֶרchomernoun · masculine singulartagged: a homer
- חֹֽמֶר׃chomernoun · masculine singulartagged: a homer
Hosea
one use
So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a lethech of barley.
- וְחֹ֥מֶרvechomerconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and a homer of
Nahum
one use
Draw your water for the siege; strengthen your fortresses. Work the clay and tread the mortar; repair the brick kiln!
- בַחֹ֖מֶרvachomerpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: on the mortar
Habakkuk
one use
You trampled the sea with Your horses, churning the great waters.
- חֹ֖מֶרchomernoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a heap of
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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
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.