כָּמָר
kamar · idolatrous priests
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H3649 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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kamar (כָּמָר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “idolatrous priests”.
A priest of a worship foreign to YHWH. The Bible uses this word, always in the plural, only for priests of idols (2 Kings 23:5; Hosea 10:5; Zephaniah 1:4); for the priests of YHWH it uses another word.
How to say it
ka·mar
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
- Men who served in idol worship.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- pagan priests ×2
- idolatrous priests ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- 2 Kings 23:5
He put an end to the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had appointed to burn incense on the high places in the cities of Judah and around Jerusalem, and to those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the constellations, and to all the army of the heavens.
- Hosea 10:5
For the calves of Beth-aven the inhabitants of Samaria will be afraid; for its people will mourn over it, and its pagan priests who rejoiced over it, over its glory, because it has gone into exile from it.
- Zephaniah 1:4
And I will stretch out my hand against Judah and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off from this place the remnant of Baal, the name of the pagan priests along with the priests;