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title: חָמַר — ferment · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חָמַר (lemma:חָמַר), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: ferment. BDB 1906: vb. ferment, boil foam up Peʿalʿal. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חָמַר

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«חָמַר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **ferment** — 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:** 2 times · **Key:** lemma:חָמַר · **BDB:** חָמַר

### Glosses

she (1); they.are.reddened (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

ferment [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b8_5de_5b7_5e8/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. ferment, boil foam up Peʿalʿal [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b8_5de_5b7_5e8/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. ferment, boil or foam up (Arabic خَمَرَ ferment, leaven, خُمْرَةٌ, خَمِيرَةٌ, n. leaven; v. LagBN 207);— Pf. 3 ms. וְיַיִן ח׳ ψ 75:9 and wine which foams, (others from IV. חמר be red); 3 pl. חָֽמְרוּ is suggested by We as poss. Hb 3:15 (for MT חֹמֶר q.v.) the great waters foamed; Impf. 3 mpl. יֶהֱמוּ יֶחְמְרוּ מֵימָיו ψ 46:4 let its water roar and foam. Peʿalʿal Pf. pass. 3 pl. מֵעַי חֳמַרְמָ֑רוּ La 1:20 my bowels are in a ferment (‖ נֶהְפַּךְ לִבִּי), of distress at calamities of Jerus.; so חֳמַרְמְרוּ מֵעַי La 2:11.—Jb 16:16 v. IV. חמר.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (14 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (12 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חָמַר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b8_5de_5b7_5e8/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 16:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.16.16/)

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פָּנַ֣י חֳ֭מַרְמְרוּ מִנִּי־בֶ֑כִי וְעַ֖ל עַפְעַפַּ֣י צַלְמָֽוֶת׃

*Word for word:* face my they.are.reddened from weeping and.\[is\] on eyelids my deep.darkness

*JPS 1917:* My face is reddened with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

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[Exodus 2:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.2.3/)

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וְלֹא־יָכְלָ֣ה עוֹד֮ הַצְּפִינוֹ֒ וַתִּֽקַּֽח־לוֹ֙ תֵּ֣בַת גֹּ֔מֶא וַתַּחְמְרָ֥ה בַחֵמָ֖ר וּבַזָּ֑פֶת וַתָּ֤שֶׂם בָּהּ֙ אֶת־הַיֶּ֔לֶד וַתָּ֥שֶׂם בַּסּ֖וּף עַל־שְׂפַ֥ת הַיְאֹֽר׃

*Word for word:* and not she.was.able still to hide.him and she.took for him a.basket of.papyrus and she sealed.it with (the) bitumen and with (the) pitch and she.put in it (et) the child and she.put.\[it\] among the rush\[es\] at the.bank of the.River

*JPS 1917:* 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 she put the child therein, and laid it in the flags by the river's brink.

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