chamar · coat with pitch; foam

What it means

chamar (חָמַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “coat with pitch; foam”.

Coat, smear with pitch. In other passages, foam, churn (Psalm 46:3), or be red (Job 16:16).

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Seethe, churn: waters, wine, troubled insides.
2. Of the face, to turn red, as from weeping.
3. To smear something with a layer of bitumen to seal it.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• are in turmoil ×2
• coated it ×1
• foam ×1
• foams ×1
• red ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×2
• Lamentations×2

• Exodus 2:3

  When she could no longer hide him, she took for him an ark of papyrus, coated it with bitumen and with pitch, put the child in it, and set it among the reeds on the bank of the Nile.

• Job 16:16

  My face is red from weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death,

• Psalms 46:3

  its waters roar, foam; the mountains tremble at its pride. Selah.

• Psalms 75:8

  For a cup is in the hand of YHWH, and the wine foams, full of mixture; and he pours out from it; surely its dregs they will drain; all the wicked of the earth will drink.

• Lamentations 1:20

  See, YHWH, that I am in distress; my insides are in turmoil; my heart is overturned within me, for I have rebelled and rebelled; outside the sword bereaves; in the house it is like death.

• Lamentations 2:11

  My eyes are spent with tears; my insides are in turmoil; my liver is poured out on the ground because of the shattering of the daughter of my people, when child and nursing infant faint in the squares of the city.