TBESH · H2563A
חֹ֫מֶר · cho.mer · clay
1) cement, mortar, clay 1a) mortar, cement 1b) clay 1c) mire
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cho.mer H2563
חֹ֫מֶר (cho.mer) means “clay” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
חֹ֫מֶר Hebrew · H2563 31 tagged occurrences in 26 verses
Pronunciation guide: kho'mer Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
TBESH · H2563B
חֹ֫מֶר · cho.mer · heap
2) heap 2a) swelling, surging (of water)
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TBESH · H2563C
חֹ֫מֶר · cho.mer · homer
homer-a unit of dry measure about 65 imperial gallons (300 l)
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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
from H2560 (חָמַר); 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 glosses: clay, heap, homer, mire, motion.
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How translators render H2563
Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| like clay | 5 |
| and a homer | 2 |
| from each homer | 2 |
| of a homer | 2 |
| of clay | 2 |
| and mortar | 1 |
| are equivalent to a homer | 1 |
| are the clay | 1 |
| as clay | 1 |
| churning | 1 |
| does the clay | 1 |
| for every homer | 1 |
| from clay | 1 |
| from the clay | 1 |
| homers | 1 |
| instead of mortar | 1 |
| into countless heaps | 1 |
| into the mud | 1 |
| or one homer | 1 |
| the homer | 1 |
| the mortar | 1 |
| they were mortar | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| of an homer | 5 |
| an homer | 3 |
| of clay | 3 |
| as clay | 1 |
| as the clay | 1 |
| behold as the clay | 1 |
| clay | 1 |
| homers | 1 |
| in morter | 1 |
| like the mire | 1 |
| me as the clay | 1 |
| me into the mire | 1 |
| morter | 1 |
| out of the clay | 1 |
| shall the clay | 1 |
| the clay | 1 |
| the heap | 1 |
| the morter | 1 |
| thereof an homer | 1 |
| thereof shall be after the homer | 1 |
| they for morter | 1 |
| upon heaps | 1 |
Verses containing H2563
Page 1 of 1. 26 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
- Genesis 11:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar.
Read word by word - Exodus 1:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
and made their lives bitter with hard labor in brick and mortar, and with all kinds of work in the fields. Every service they imposed was harsh.
Read word by word - Exodus 8:14
· BSB · 2 occurrences
They were piled into countless heaps, and there was a terrible stench in the land.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 8.10
- Leviticus 27:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
If a man consecrates to the LORD a parcel of his land, then your valuation shall be proportional to the seed required for it—fifty shekels of silver for every homer of barley seed.
Read word by word - Numbers 11:32
· BSB · 1 occurrence
All that day and night, and all the next day, the people stayed up gathering the quail. No one gathered less than ten homers, and they spread them out all around the camp.
Read word by word - Job 4:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!
Read word by word - Job 10:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?
Read word by word - Job 13:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.
Read word by word - Job 27:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up a wardrobe like clay,
Read word by word - Job 30:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He throws me into the mud, and I have become like dust and ashes.
Read word by word - Job 33:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I am just like you before God; I was also formed from clay.
Read word by word - Job 38:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its hills stand out like the folds of a garment.
Read word by word - Isaiah 5:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain.”
Read word by word - Isaiah 10:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.
Read word by word - Isaiah 29:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You have turned things upside down, as if the potter were regarded as clay. Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, “He did not make me”? Can the pottery say of the potter, “He has no understanding”?
Read word by word - Isaiah 41:25
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I have raised up one from the north, and he has come—one from the east who calls on My name. He will march over rulers as if they were mortar, like a potter who treads the clay.
Read word by word - Isaiah 45:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker—one clay pot among many. Does the clay ask the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘He has no hands’?
Read word by word - Isaiah 64:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 64.7
- Jeremiah 18:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But the vessel that he was shaping from the clay became flawed in his hand; so he formed it into another vessel, as it seemed best for him to do.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 18:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“O house of Israel, declares the LORD, can I not treat you as this potter treats his clay? Just like clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 45:11
· BSB · 3 occurrences
The ephah and the bath shall be the same quantity so that the bath will contain a tenth of a homer, and the ephah a tenth of a homer; the homer will be the standard measure for both.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 45:13
· BSB · 2 occurrences
This is the contribution you are to offer: a sixth of an ephah from each homer of wheat, and a sixth of an ephah from each homer of barley.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 45:14
· BSB · 2 occurrences
The prescribed portion of oil, measured by the bath, is a tenth of a bath from each cor (a cor consists of ten baths or one homer, since ten baths are equivalent to a homer).
Read word by word - Hosea 3:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a lethech of barley.
Read word by word - Nahum 3:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Draw your water for the siege; strengthen your fortresses. Work the clay and tread the mortar; repair the brick kiln!
Read word by word - Habakkuk 3:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You trampled the sea with Your horses, churning the great waters.
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