To aggitate
חָמַרStrong’s H2560chamar (cha-mar)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chamar is the Hebrew word usually translated “are in turmoil”, “sealed it she” and “are reddened”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink.”
Meaning
- To boil, foam, foam up, ferment(Qal) to boil, foam up · (Poalal) to be troubled, be in turmoil
- (Qal) to daub, seal up, cover or smear with asphalt
- (Poalal) to be reddened
How it's translated
- they are in turmoil 2
- and sealed it she 1
- they are reddened 1
- they will foam 1
- it is foaming 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 2
- Lamentations 2
- Exodus 1
- Job 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 16:16My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
- Psalms 46:3Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
- Psalms 75:8For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.
- Lamentations 1:20Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.
- Lamentations 2:11Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
Hebrew dictionary
חָמַר chamar · to aggitate
1) to boil, foam, foam up, ferment 1a) (Qal) to boil, foam up 1b) (Poalal) to be troubled, be in turmoil
חָמַר chamar · to daub
(Qal) to daub, seal up, cover or smear with asphalt
חָמַר chamar · be red
(Poalal) to be reddened
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “foam” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FOAM, noun
[Latin fumo, to smoke, to foam ]
All definitions and other forms of “foam”
FOAM, verb intransitive
- To froth; to gather foam The billows foam A horse foams at the mouth when violently heated.
- To be in a rage; to be violently agitated.“He foameth and gnasheth with his teeth” Mark 9:18
FOAM, verb transitive
To throw out with rage or violence; with out.
- “FOAMing out their own shame” Jude 1:13
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.