Wine
חֶ֫מֶרStrong’s H2561chemer (che-mer)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Chemer is the Hebrew word usually translated “wine”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.”
Meaning
- Wine
How it's translated
- wine 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
חֶ֫מֶר chemer · wine
wine Aramaic equivalent: cha.mar (חֲמַר "wine" H2562)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “wine” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WINE, noun
[Gr.]
- The fermented juice of grapes; as the wine of the Madeira grape; the wine of Burgundy or Oporto.
- The juice of certain fruits, prepared with sugar, spirits, etc.; as currant wine; gooseberry wine
- Intoxication.“Noah awoke from his wine” Genesis 9:24
- Drinking.“They that tarry long at the wine” Proverbs 23:30
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.