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חֹמֶר H2563

H2563 is the Hebrew word חֹמֶר, transliterated chômer and said kho'mer. The King James Version most often renders it clay.

Word: חֹמֶרTransliteration: chômerSaid: kho'merLanguage: HebrewIn the KJV: 22 verses

What it means

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.

Where it comes from

from H2560 (חָמַר).

How the King James Version translates it

Across 24 tagged occurrences, counted from this edition's word index.

clay 7×homer 7×morter 3×heaps 1×thereof an homer 1×homers 1×mire 1×like the mire 1×behold as the clay 1×through the heap 1×

Strong's own list of renderings: clay, heap, homer, mire, motion.

Verses using חֹמֶר

All 22 verses, quoted in full.

Exodus 1:14 · KJV

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 · KJV

And they gathered them together upon heaps: and the land stank.

Leviticus 27:16 · KJV

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 · KJV

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 · KJV

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 · KJV

Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?

Job 30:19 · KJV

He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.

Job 38:14 · KJV

It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment.

Isaiah 5:10 · KJV

Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.

Isaiah 10:6 · KJV

I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

Isaiah 29:16 · KJV

Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter’s clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?

Isaiah 41:25 · KJV

I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon morter, and as the potter treadeth clay.

Isaiah 45:9 · KJV

Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?

Isaiah 64:8 · KJV

But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.

Jeremiah 18:4 · KJV

And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

Jeremiah 18:6 · KJV

O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.

Ezekiel 45:11 · KJV

The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.

Ezekiel 45:13 · KJV

This is the oblation that ye shall offer; the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of wheat, and ye shall give the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of barley:

Ezekiel 45:14 · KJV

Concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil, ye shall offer the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, which is an homer of ten baths; for ten baths are an homer:

Hosea 3:2 · KJV

So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:

Nahum 3:14 · KJV

Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.

Habakkuk 3:15 · KJV

Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses, through the heap of great waters.

Common questions

What does Strong's H2563 mean?

H2563 is the Hebrew word חֹמֶר (chômer), meaning 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.

How is H2563 translated in the King James Version?

The King James translators rendered it clay (7 times), homer (7 times), morter (3 times), heaps (1 time), thereof an homer (1 time), among others.

How many times does H2563 appear in the Bible?

חֹמֶר (chômer) is tagged in 22 verses of the King James Version in this edition's word index.

Where does H2563 come from?

Strong's gives its derivation as: from H2560 (חָמַר).

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