Strong H25603 sensesחָמַר

ferment · to daub · be red

Transliteration
châmar
Pronunciation
khaw-mar'

The 3 senses of Strong H2560

The lexicon tells 3 senses apart under this number. In the Bible, each word leads to the one it has in its verse. Strong H2560 appears in 6 verses of the KJV, all senses together.

  1. fermentH2560Ato aggitate4 verses · Psalms, Lamentations
  2. to daubH2560B(Qal) to daub, seal up, cover or smear with asphalt1 verse · Exodus
  3. be redH2560Cverb1 verse · Job

General definition

A primitive root; properly to boil up; hence to ferment (with scum); to glow (with redness); as denominative (from H2564) to smear with pitch: - {daub} {foul} be {red} trouble.

In the Bible

Translated in the KJV by

  • be4
  • daub1
  • foul1

First verses

  1. Exodus 2:3
    And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink.
  2. Job 16:16
    My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
  3. Psalms 46:3
    Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
  4. Psalms 75:8
    For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.
  5. Lamentations 1:20
    Behold, O Lord; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.
  6. Lamentations 2:11
    Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.