omer · omer, sheaf

What it means

omer (עֹמֶר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “omer, sheaf”.

Omer: a measure for grain, a tenth of an ephah (about two liters). In other passages, a sheaf.

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. A measure of grain.
2. A bundle of cut grain.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• sheaf ×6
• omer ×5
• sheaves ×2
• omers ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×6
• Leviticus×4
• Deuteronomy×1
• Ruth×2
• Job×1

• Exodus 16:16

  This is the thing that YHWH has commanded: ‘Gather of it, each one according to what he can eat, an omer per head, according to the number of your persons; each one for those in his tent you shall take.’ ”

• Exodus 16:18

  But when they measured it with the omer, the one who gathered much had nothing left over, and the one who gathered little had no lack; each gathered according to what he could eat.

• Exodus 16:22

  And on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one; and all the chiefs of the community came and told Moses.

• Exodus 16:32

  Moses said, “This is the thing that YHWH has commanded: ‘A full omer of it is to be kept throughout your generations, so that they may see the bread that I fed you in the wilderness when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’ ”

• Exodus 16:33

  Moses said to Aaron, “Take a jar, and put in it a full omer of manna, and set it before YHWH, to be kept throughout your generations.”

• Exodus 16:36

  The omer is a tenth of the ephah.

• Leviticus 23:10

  “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them: When you come into the land that I am giving you and reap its harvest, you shall bring the sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest.

• Leviticus 23:11

  And he shall wave the sheaf before YHWH for your acceptance; on the day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.

• Leviticus 23:12

  And on the day you wave the sheaf you shall offer a lamb without defect, a year old, as a burnt offering to YHWH,

• Leviticus 23:15

  And you shall count for yourselves from the day after the Sabbath, from the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven full Sabbaths they shall be.

• Deuteronomy 24:19

  When you reap your harvest in your field and forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to take it; it shall be for the resident alien, for the orphan, and for the widow, so that YHWH your Elohim may bless you in all the work of your hands.

• Ruth 2:7

  She said, ‘Let me glean, please, and I will gather among the sheaves behind the reapers.’ So she came and has been standing from the morning until now; she has sat in the house only a little.”

• Ruth 2:15

  She rose to glean, and Boaz commanded his young men, saying, “Let her glean even among the sheaves, and do not put her to shame.

• Job 24:10

  Naked they go about without clothing, and hungry, they carry the sheaf.