חֹ֫מֶר
cho.mer
“clay”
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
from H2560 (חָמַר);
- cement, mortar, clay 1a) mortar, cement 1b) clay 1c) mire
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Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
H:N-M
H:N-M
Occurrences
חֹ֫מֶר appears 24 times in the Old Testament.
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Key Passages
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.
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.
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”?
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.
Though he heaps up silver like dustand piles up a wardrobe like clay,
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