Strong's Hebrew · H2563

חֹמֶר

chômer · kho'mer

Definitionproperly, a bubbling up, i.e. of water, a wave; of earth, mire or clay (cement); also a heap; hence, a chomer or dry measure
Derivationfrom H2560 (חָמַר);
KJV usageclay, heap, homer, mire, motion.
Occurrences31 in the KJV · 26 verses

חֹמֶר in Scripture

Genesis 11:3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. Exodus 1:14 And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour. Exodus 8:14 And they gathered them together upon heaps: and the land stank. Leviticus 27:16 And if a man shall sanctify unto the LORD some part of a field of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the seed thereof: an homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver. Numbers 11:32 And the people stood up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp. Job 4:19 How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth? Job 10:9 Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again? Job 13:12 Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay. Job 27:16 Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay; Job 30:19 He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes. Job 33:6 Behold, I am according to thy wish in God' s stead: I also am formed out of the clay. Job 38:14 It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment.
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