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# חָמַר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2560

**ferment** — used 4 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

ferment [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2560/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָמַר: vb. ferment, boil foam up Peʿalʿal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2560/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. ferment, boil or foam up (Arabic خَمَرَ ferment, leaven, خُمْرَةٌ, خَمِيرَةٌ, n. leaven; v. LagBN 207);— Pf. 3 ms. וְיַיִן ח׳ ψ 75:9 and wine which foams, (others from IV. חמר be red); 3 pl. חָֽמְרוּ is suggested by We as poss. Hb 3:15 (for MT חֹמֶר q.v.) the great waters foamed; Impf. 3 mpl. יֶהֱמוּ יֶחְמְרוּ מֵימָיו ψ 46:4 let its water roar and foam. Peʿalʿal Pf. pass. 3 pl. מֵעַי חֳמַרְמָ֑רוּ La 1:20 my bowels are in a ferment (‖ נֶהְפַּךְ לִבִּי), of distress at calamities of Jerus.; so חֳמַרְמְרוּ מֵעַי La 2:11.—Jb 16:16 v. IV. חמר.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 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, 0 with the glosses (12 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: they are in turmoil (2); it is foaming (1); they will foam (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 46:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.46.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.46.4/#tree)

יֶהֱמ֣וּ יֶחְמְר֣וּ מֵימָ֑יו יִֽרְעֲשֽׁוּ־הָרִ֖ים בְּגַאֲוָת֣וֹ סֶֽלָה׃

*Word for word:* they.will.roar they.will.foam waters its they.will.shake mountains at swelling its Selah

*JPS 1917:* Though the waters thereof roar and foam, though the mountains shake at the swelling thereof.

[Psalms 75:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.75.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.75.9/#tree)

כִּ֤י כ֪וֹס בְּֽיַד־יְהוָ֡ה וְיַ֤יִן חָמַ֨ר ׀ מָ֥לֵא מֶסֶךְ֮ וַיַּגֵּ֪ר מִ֫זֶּ֥ה אַךְ־שְׁ֭מָרֶיהָ יִמְצ֣וּ יִשְׁתּ֑וּ כֹּ֝֗ל רִשְׁעֵי־אָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) a.cup \[is\].in the.hand of.Yahweh and wine it.is.foaming full spiced.drink and he.has.poured.out some of.this surely dregs its they.will.drain they.will.drink all \[the\].wicked.\[people\] of.\[the\].earth

*JPS 1917:* For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, with foaming wine, full of mixture, and He poureth out of the same; surely the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall drain them, and drink them.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2560.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2560/): 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).