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title: חֹמֶר — homer · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חֹמֶר (2563), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 13 times: homer. BDB 1906: n.m. homer. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חֹמֶר

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«חֹמֶר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **homer** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 13 times · **Key:** 2563 · **BDB:** חֹ֫מֶר³

### Glosses

the.homer (4); \[are\].a.homer (2); heaps (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

homer [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2563/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. homer [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2563/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. homer, a dry measure (perhaps from above √, but dub.; cf. Assyrian amâru, surround, contain, ii. R 36:19 a. b Strm4760, imêru, a measure ZimBP 6 n)—ח׳ abs. Is 5:10 + 5 times Ez; cstr. Ho 3:2 + 3 times; pl. הֳמָרִים Nu 11:32;—ח׳ of barley Ho 3:2; Ez 45:13, cf. זֶרַע ח׳ שְׂעֹרִים Lv 27:16 i.e. land on which a ח׳ of barley seed was sown (taxed at 50 shekels); ח׳ of wheat Ez 45:13; in gen. זֶרַע ח׳ Is 5:10; = 10 ephahs (or baths, v. בַּת sub בתת) Ez 45:11(×3), 14(×2) (in v 14 del. Co); on actual size of ח׳, = 393.9 litres, v. Hultzsch Metrol. 2nd ed. 448, 452 f.. See further ii. בַּת and reff., BenzArch. 183 f. NowArch. i, 203 f.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (14 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (12 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חֹמֶר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2563/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Exodus 8:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.8.10/)

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וַיִּצְבְּר֥וּ אֹתָ֖ם חֳמָרִ֣ם חֳמָרִ֑ם וַתִּבְאַ֖שׁ הָאָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* and people.piled.up them heaps heaps and it.stank the land

*JPS 1917:* And they gathered them together in heaps; and the land stank.

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[Isaiah 5:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.5.10/)

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כִּ֗י עֲשֶׂ֙רֶת֙ צִמְדֵּי־כֶ֔רֶם יַעֲשׂ֖וּ בַּ֣ת אֶחָ֑ת וְזֶ֥רַע חֹ֖מֶר יַעֲשֶׂ֥ה אֵיפָֽה׃פ

*Word for word:* (dm) ten acres of.vineyard they.will.produce a.bath one and seed of.a.homer it.will.produce an.ephah

*JPS 1917:* For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of a homer shall yield an ephah.

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