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# חֹמֶר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2563

**homer** — used 13 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

homer [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2563/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֹ֫מֶר³: n.m. homer [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2563/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. homer, a dry measure (perhaps from above √, but dub.; cf. Assyrian amâru, surround, contain, ii. R 36:19 a. b Strm4760, imêru, a measure ZimBP 6 n)—ח׳ abs. Is 5:10 + 5 times Ez; cstr. Ho 3:2 + 3 times; pl. הֳמָרִים Nu 11:32;—ח׳ of barley Ho 3:2; Ez 45:13, cf. זֶרַע ח׳ שְׂעֹרִים Lv 27:16 i.e. land on which a ח׳ of barley seed was sown (taxed at 50 shekels); ח׳ of wheat Ez 45:13; in gen. זֶרַע ח׳ Is 5:10; = 10 ephahs (or baths, v. בַּת sub בתת) Ez 45:11(×3), 14(×2) (in v 14 del. Co); on actual size of ח׳, = 393.9 litres, v. Hultzsch Metrol. 2nd ed. 448, 452 f.. See further ii. בַּת and reff., BenzArch. 183 f. NowArch. i, 203 f.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (14 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (12 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the homer (4); \[are\] a homer (2); heaps (2).

## In the verses

[Exodus 8:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.8.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.8.10/#tree)

וַיִּצְבְּר֥וּ אֹתָ֖ם חֳמָרִ֣ם חֳמָרִ֑ם וַתִּבְאַ֖שׁ הָאָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* and people.piled.up them heaps heaps and it.stank the land

*JPS 1917:* And they gathered them together in heaps; and the land stank.

[Isaiah 5:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.5.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.5.10/#tree)

כִּ֗י עֲשֶׂ֙רֶת֙ צִמְדֵּי־כֶ֔רֶם יַעֲשׂ֖וּ בַּ֣ת אֶחָ֑ת וְזֶ֥רַע חֹ֖מֶר יַעֲשֶׂ֥ה אֵיפָֽה׃פ

*Word for word:* (dm) ten acres of.vineyard they.will.produce a.bath one and seed of.a.homer it.will.produce an.ephah

*JPS 1917:* For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of a homer shall yield an ephah.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2563.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2563/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).