Hebrew noun (masculine) · H3649
כָּמָר
kamarkaw-mawr'
pagan priest
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: kâmâr
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3649is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3649
properly, an ascetic (as if shrunk with self-maceration), i.e. an idolatrous priest (only in plural)
The King James renders it: Chemarims (idolatrous) priests.
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
kamar is rendered "pagan priest". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- One of the uses stand in 2 Kings, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Kings 23:5Josiah also did away with the idolatrous priests ordained by the kings of Judah to burn incense on the high places of the cities of Judah and in the places all around Jerusalem—those who had burned incense to Baal, to the sun and moon, to the constellations, and to all the host of heaven.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
Josiah also did away with the idolatrous priests ordained by the kings of Judah to burn incense on the high places of the cities of Judah and in the places all around Jerusalem—those who had burned incense to Baal, to the sun and moon, to the constellations, and to all the host of heaven.
2 Kings 23:5הַכְּמָרִ֗ים
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
One of the word's three uses is in 2 Kings.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the pagan priests2
- and pagan priests its1
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 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 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
- הַכְּמָרִ֗ים1
- הַכְּמָרִ֖ים1
- וּכְמָרָיו֙1
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural2HTd/Ncmpa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HC/Ncmpc/Sp3ms
2 Kings
one use
Josiah also did away with the idolatrous priests ordained by the kings of Judah to burn incense on the high places of the cities of Judah and in the places all around Jerusalem—those who had burned incense to Baal, to the sun and moon, to the constellations, and to all the host of heaven.
- הַכְּמָרִ֗יםhakemarimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the pagan priests
Hosea
one use
The people of Samaria will fear for the calf of Beth-aven. Indeed, its people will mourn with its idolatrous priests— those who rejoiced in its glory— for it has been taken from them into exile.
- וּכְמָרָיו֙ukhemaravconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and pagan priests its
Zephaniah
one use
“I will stretch out My hand against Judah and against all who dwell in Jerusalem. I will cut off from this place every remnant of Baal, the names of the idolatrous and pagan priests—
- הַכְּמָרִ֖יםhakemarimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the pagan priests
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.