Wine
חֲמַרStrong’s H2562chamar (cha-mar)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chamar is the Aramaic word usually translated “wine” and “wine the”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.”
Meaning
- Wine
How it's translated
- wine 4
- wine the 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 4
- Ezra 2
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 5:2In contextBelshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.
- Daniel 5:4In contextThey drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
- Daniel 5:23In contextBut hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:
- Ezra 6:9And that which they have need of, both young bullocks, and rams, and lambs, for the burnt offerings of the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the appointment of the priests which are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail:
- Ezra 7:22Unto an hundred talents of silver, and to an hundred measures of wheat, and to an hundred baths of wine, and to an hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.
Aramaic dictionary
חֲמַר chamar · wine
wine Aramaic of che.mer (חֶ֫מֶר "wine" H2561)
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.