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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