חֹמֶר chomer

Hebrew word for “clay” · Strong’s H2563 · used 31 times in 26 verses

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Meaning

1) cement, mortar, clay; 1a) mortar, cement; 1b) clay; 1c) mire

Senses in the lexicon

• clay (15)
• homer (13)
• heap (3)

How it is translated

Glosses given for chomer in context, with how often each is used:

• homer 10
• clay 6
• mortar 3
• like the clay 3
• like clay 2
• mud 2
• heaps 2
• like the mud 1
• homers 1
• heap 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Ezekiel 45 (3), Jeremiah 18 (2), Genesis 11 (1), Exodus 1 (1), Exodus 8 (1), Leviticus 27 (1), Numbers 11 (1), Job 4 (1), Job 10 (1), Job 13 (1)

Forms

• חמר 9
• כחמר 5
• החמר 4
• בחמר 3
• מחמר 3
• לחמר 2
• חמרם 2
• וכחמר 1
• חמרים 1
• וחמר 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with chomer more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• יָצַר yatsar “to form” 6
• בַּת bat “bath” 3
• עָפָר aphar “dust” 4
• אֵיפָה ephah “ephah” 3
• שְׂעֹרָה seorah “barley” 3
• צָבַר tsavar “to heap” 2
• לְבֵנָה levenah “brick” 2
• טִיט tit “mud” 2
• עֶשֶׂר eser “ten” 3
• רָמַס ramas “to trample” 2
• אֵפֶר epher “ashes” 2
• מַעֲשֵׂר maaser “tithe” 2

Key verses

The verses using chomer that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• 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…
• 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 33:6 — Behold, I am according to thy wish in God’s stead: I also am formed out of the clay.
• Isaiah 5:10 — Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
• Isaiah 10:6 — 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…
• Isaiah 41:25 — 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,…
• Isaiah 45:9 — 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…
• Isaiah 64:8 — 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.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.