Strong H2563H2563Cחֹ֫מֶר

homer

One of the 3 senses of Strong H2563

Transliteration
chômer
Pronunciation
kho'-mer
Morphology
Hebrew Noun (Masculine)

Definition

homer-a unit of dry measure about 65 imperial gallons (300 l)

General definition

From H2560; properly a bubbling {up} that {is} of {water} a wave; of {earth} mire or clay (cement); also a heap; hence a chomer or dry measure: - {clay} {heap} {homer} {mire} {motion} mortar.

In the Bible

Strong H2563C appears in 9 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • homer7
  • clay1
  • morter1

First verses

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Job 38:14
    It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment.
  4. Isaiah 5:10
    Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
  5. 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.
  6. Ezekiel 45:11
    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.
  7. Ezekiel 45:13
    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:
  8. Ezekiel 45:14
    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:
  9. Hosea 3:2
    So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:
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