Strong H25633 sensesחֹ֫מֶר

The 3 senses of Strong H2563

The lexicon tells 3 senses apart under this number. In the Bible, each word leads to the one it has in its verse. Strong H2563 appears in 26 verses of the KJV, all senses together.

1. clayH2563Acement, mortar, clay15 verses · 6 books
2. homerH2563Chomer-a unit of dry measure about 65 imperial gallons (300 l)9 verses · 6 books
3. heapH2563Bswelling, surging (of water)1 verse · Habakkuk

General definition

In the Bible

Translated in the KJV by

• clay11
• homer7
• morter4
• heap2
• mire2

First verses

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Exodus 8:14
   And they gathered them together upon heaps: and the land stank.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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?
7. Job 10:9
   Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
8. Job 13:12
   Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
9. Job 27:16
   Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;
10. Job 30:19
    He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
11. Job 33:6
    Behold, I am according to thy wish in God’s stead: I also am formed out of the clay.
12. Job 38:14
    It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment.
13. Isaiah 5:10
    Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
14. 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 tread them down like the mire of the streets.
15. Isaiah 29:16
    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?
16. 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, and as the potter treadeth clay.
17. 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 thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
18. 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.
19. Jeremiah 18:4
    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.
20. Jeremiah 18:6
    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.