Word
אֹמֶרStrong’s H0562omer (o-mer)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Omer is the Hebrew word usually translated “word”, “speech” and “matter”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.”
Meaning
- Utterance, speech, word, saying, promise, command
How it's translated
- a word 3
- speech 2
- a matter 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 4
- Job 1
- Habakkuk 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 19:2Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.
- Psalms 19:3There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.
- Psalms 68:11The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that published it.
- Psalms 77:8Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore?
- Habakkuk 3:9Thy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.
Hebrew dictionary
אֹמֶר omer · word
utterance, speech, word, saying, promise, command
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “word” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WORD, noun
[G., Latin, to speak. A word is that which is uttered or thrown out.]
- An articulate or vocal sound, or a combination of articulate and vocal sounds, uttered by the human voice, and by custom expressing an idea or ideas; a single component part of human speech or language.
- The letter or letters, written or printed, which represent a sound or combination of sounds.
- A short discourse.
- Talk; discourse.
All definitions and other forms of “word”
- Dispute; verbal contention; as, some words grew between us.
- Language; living speech; oral expression.
- Promise.
- Signal; order; command.
- Account; tidings; message.
- Declaration; purpose expressed.
- Declaration; affirmation.
- The Scripture; divine revelation, or any part of it.
- Christ. John 1:1
- A motto; a short sentence; a proverb.“Let us not love in word only, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth” 1 John 3:18
WORD, verb intransitive
To dispute. [Little used.]
WORD, verb transitive
To express in words. Take care to word ideas with propriety.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.