Vinegar
חֹ֫מֶץStrong’s H2558chomets (cho-mets)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chomets is the Hebrew word usually translated “vinegar”, “vinegar of” and “like vinegar”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.”
Meaning
- Vinegar
How it's translated
- vinegar 2
- vinegar of 1
- and vinegar of 1
- in the vinegar 1
- like vinegar 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 2
- Numbers 1
- Ruth 1
- Psalms 1
4 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Ruth 2:14And Boaz said unto her, At mealtime come thou hither, and eat of the bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. And she sat beside the reapers: and he reached her parched corn, and she did eat, and was sufficed, and left.
- Psalms 69:21They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
- Proverbs 10:26As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him.
- Proverbs 25:20As he that taketh away a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon nitre, so is he that singeth songs to an heavy heart.
Hebrew dictionary
חֹ֫מֶץ chomets · vinegar
vinegar
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “vinegar” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
VIN'EGAR, noun
- Vegetable acid; an acid liquor obtained from wine, cider, beer or other liquors, by the second or acetous fermentation. vinegar may differ indefinitely in the degree of its acidity.
- Any thing really or metaphorically sour. [Not in use.]
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.