chomer · clay, mortar; homer

What it means

chomer (חֹמֶר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “clay, mortar; homer”.

Clay, mud, mortar. Also a heap, and a homer, a large dry measure.

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. Wet earth, the potter's dough, or mire.
2. A large measure for grain.
3. Piled things, or the rising sea.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• clay ×13
• homer ×10
• heaps ×2
• mortar ×2
• mud ×2
• homers ×1
• surge ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×3
• Leviticus×1
• Numbers×1
• Job×7
• Isaiah×6
• Jeremiah×2
• Ezekiel×7
• Hosea×1
• Nahum×1
• Habakkuk×1

• Genesis 11:3

  They said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly.” And brick served them as stone, and bitumen served them as mortar.

• Exodus 1:14

  and they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, with mortar and with bricks and with every kind of work in the field; all their work in which they made them work was ruthless.

• Exodus 8:14

  They piled them up in heaps, heaps, and the land stank.

• Leviticus 27:16

  And if a man consecrates to YHWH part of the field of his possession, the valuation shall be according to its seed: a homer of barley seed at fifty shekels of silver.

• Numbers 11:32

  And the people rose up all that day and all the night and all the next day, and gathered the quails; the one who gathered least gathered ten homers; and they spread them out for themselves around the camp.

• Job 4:19

  how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust; they crush them before the moth.

• Job 10:9

  Remember, please, that like clay you made me, and to dust you will return me.

• Job 13:12

  Your memorials are proverbs of ash; defenses of clay are your defenses.

• Job 27:16

  Though he heap up silver like dust, and prepare garments like clay,

• Job 30:19

  He has cast me into the mud, and I have become like dust and ashes.

• Job 33:6

  Look, I am like you toward El; from clay I too was cut.

• Job 38:14

  It is changed like clay under a seal, and things stand out like a garment.

• Isaiah 5:10

  For ten acres of vineyard will yield one bath, and a homer of seed will yield an ephah.

• Isaiah 10:6

  Against a godless nation I send it, and against the people of my fury I command it, to take spoil and to seize plunder, and to make it a thing trampled like the mud of the streets.

• Isaiah 29:16

  Your perversity! Is the potter to be regarded as the clay, that the thing made should say of its maker, “He did not make me,” and the vessel say of its potter, “He has no understanding”?

• Isaiah 41:25

  I have stirred up one from the north, and he has come; from the rising of the sun he will call on my name; and he will come upon officials as upon clay, and as the potter treads mud.

• Isaiah 45:9

  Woe to him who contends with his Former, a potsherd among the potsherds of the ground! Will the clay say to the one who forms it, ‘What are you making?’ or your work, ‘He has no hands’?

• Isaiah 64:8

  But now, YHWH, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and the work of your hand are all of us.

• Jeremiah 18:4

  And the vessel that he was making of clay was ruined in the hand of the potter; and he went back and made it another vessel, as seemed right in the eyes of the potter to make.

• Jeremiah 18:6

  “Can I not do with you as this potter does, house of Israel? declares YHWH. Look, like the clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, house of Israel.

• Ezekiel 45:11

  The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, so that the bath contains a tenth of a homer, and the ephah a tenth of a homer; according to the homer shall be its measure.

• Ezekiel 45:13

  This is the contribution that you shall set apart: a sixth of an ephah from a homer of wheat, and you shall give a sixth of an ephah from a homer of barley.

• Ezekiel 45:14

  And the statute for the oil, the bath of oil: a tenth of a bath from each kor; ten baths are a homer, for ten baths are a homer.

• Hosea 3:2

  So I bought her for myself for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer of barley and a lethech of barley.

• Nahum 3:14

  Draw water for the siege for yourself; strengthen your fortresses; go into the mud and tread the clay; take hold of the brick mold.

• Habakkuk 3:15

  You trod the sea with your horses, the surge of many waters.

And 5 more times.