Strong's H2563 · Hebrew
חֹמֶר
chômer · /kho'mer/
Definition
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
KJV: clay, heap, homer, mire, motion.
Root / derivation: from H2560 (חָמַר);
KJV usage breakdown
How the Authorized (KJV) translators rendered חֹמֶר across 26 verses.
Every occurrence (KJV)
26 verses use this word, grouped by book — the translated form is highlighted.
Exodus2 verses
Job7 verses
How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
Job 10:9Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
Job 13:12Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
Job 27:16Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;
Job 30:19He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
Job 33:6Behold, I am according to thy wish in God's stead: I also am formed out of the clay. wish: Heb. mouth formed: Heb. cut
Job 38:14It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment.
Isaiah6 verses
Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
Isaiah 10:6I 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. tread: Heb. lay them a treading
Isaiah 29:16Surely 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 41:25I 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 45:9Woe 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 64:8But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
Jeremiah2 verses
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. of clay: or, was marred, as clay in the hand of the potter made it: Heb. returned and made, etc
Jeremiah 18:6O 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.
Ezekiel3 verses
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 45:13This 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 45:14Concerning 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:
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Frequently asked questions
What does Strong's H2563 (chômer) mean?
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 many times does H2563 appear in the Bible?
Strong's H2563 (חֹמֶר) appears in 26 verses of the King James Version, most often translated “clay.”
How is chômer translated in the KJV?
In the KJV, Strong's H2563 is rendered as “clay” (11×), “homer” (10×), “morter” (4×), “mire” (2×), among other words.
Where does the Hebrew word חֹמֶר come from?
from H2560 (חָמַר);