Clay
חֹ֫מֶרStrong’s H2563chomer (cho-mer)
Appears in 26 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chomer is the Hebrew word usually translated “clay”, “homer” and “heaps”. It appears in 26 verses of the Old Testament.
“And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.”
Meaning
- Cement, mortar, claymortar, cement · clay · mire
- Heapswelling, surging (of water)
- Homer-a unit of dry measure about 65 imperial gallons (300 l)
How it's translated
- clay 3
- a homer 3
- the homer 3
- heaps 2
- like clay of 2
- from homer of 2
- to mortar 1
- in mortar 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 7
- Isaiah 6
- Ezekiel 3
- Exodus 2
- Jeremiah 2
- Genesis 1
11 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 1:14And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
- Exodus 8:14And they gathered them together upon heaps: and the land stank.
- Leviticus 27:16And if a man shall sanctify unto the LORD some part of a field of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the seed thereof: an homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.
- Numbers 11:32And the people stood up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp.
- Job 4:19How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
- Job 10:9Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
Hebrew dictionary
חֹ֫מֶר chomer · clay
1) cement, mortar, clay 1a) mortar, cement 1b) clay 1c) mire
חֹ֫מֶר chomer · heap
2) heap 2a) swelling, surging (of water)
חֹ֫מֶר chomer · homer
homer-a unit of dry measure about 65 imperial gallons (300 l)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “clay” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CLAY, noun
- The name of certain substances which are mixtures of silex and alumin, sometimes with lime, magnesia, alkali and metallic oxyds.
- In poetry and in scripture, earth in general.
- In scripture, clay is used to express frailty, liableness to decay and destruction.“They that dwell in houses of clay” Job 4:19
All definitions and other forms of “clay”
CLAY, verb transitive
- To cover or manure with clay
- To purify and whiten with clay as sugar.
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.