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Strong's H2563 חֹמֶר (chomer)

Chomer means “clay” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's G2563 — kalamos (“pen”) in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H2563
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 26
Books 11

Strong's H2563 Quick Answer

Strong's H2563 חוֹמֶר (chomer) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. chomer (kho'mer) n-m. 1. (properly) a bubbling up, i.e. of water, a wave 2. of earth, mire or clay (cement) It has 26 linked Bible usages across 11 books. Visible English usage signals include clay, mire, waters, heaps, and earth. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
chomer (kho'mer) n-m. 1. (properly) a bubbling up, i.e. of water, a wave 2. of earth, mire or clay (cement)
Usage
26 linked usages
Books
11 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
clay, mire, waters, heaps, and earth

Meaning and Definition

chomer (kho'mer) n-m. 1. (properly) a bubbling up, i.e. of water, a wave 2. of earth, mire or clay (cement) 3. also a heap 4. (hence) a chomer or dry measure [from H2560] KJV: clay, heap, homer, mire, motion. Root(s): H2560

Original Word
חוֹמֶר
Transliteration
chomer
Derivation
Root: חמר First root strongs: 2560
Morphology
noun masc

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H2563. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

How Strong's H2563 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render chomer, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

clay Job 4:19 11× mire Job 30:19 waters Nahum 3:14 earth Isaiah 45:9 heaps Exodus 8:14

How Strong's H2563 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 26 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H2563 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H2563 in the Old Testament

26 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 11:3 KJV

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.

Exodus 1:14 KJV

And 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 8:14 KJV

And they gathered them together upon heaps: and the land stank.

Usage Excerpts

First 26 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H2563.

Genesis 11:3 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Exodus 1:14 Old Testament, KJV
And 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 8:14 Old Testament, KJV
And they gathered them together upon heaps: and the land stank.
Leviticus 27:16 Old Testament, KJV
And 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 11:32 Old Testament, KJV
And 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 4:19 Old Testament, KJV
How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
Job 10:9 Old Testament, KJV
Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
Job 13:12 Old Testament, KJV
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
Job 27:16 Old Testament, KJV
Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;
Job 30:19 Old Testament, KJV
He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
Job 33:6 Old Testament, KJV
Behold, I am according to thy wish in God's stead: I also am formed out of the clay.
Job 38:14 Old Testament, KJV
It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment.
Isaiah 5:10 Old Testament, KJV
Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
Isaiah 10:6 Old Testament, KJV
I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Isaiah 29:16 Old Testament, KJV
Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?
Isaiah 41:25 Old Testament, KJV
I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon morter, and as the potter treadeth clay.
Isaiah 45:9 Old Testament, KJV
Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
Isaiah 64:8 Old Testament, KJV
But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
Jeremiah 18:4 Old Testament, KJV
And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
Jeremiah 18:6 Old Testament, KJV
O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.
Ezekiel 45:11 Old Testament, KJV
The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.
Ezekiel 45:13 Old Testament, KJV
This is the oblation that ye shall offer; the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of wheat, and ye shall give the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of barley:
Ezekiel 45:14 Old Testament, KJV
Concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil, ye shall offer the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, which is an homer of ten baths; for ten baths are an homer:
Hosea 3:2 Old Testament, KJV
So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:
Nahum 3:14 Old Testament, KJV
Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.
Habakkuk 3:15 Old Testament, KJV
Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses, through the heap of great waters.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H2563, grouped by book.

Genesis 1 usage, Old Testament
Exodus 2 usages, Old Testament
Leviticus 1 usage, Old Testament
Numbers 1 usage, Old Testament
Job 7 usages, Old Testament
Isaiah 6 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 2 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 3 usages, Old Testament
Hosea 1 usage, Old Testament
Nahum 1 usage, Old Testament
Habakkuk 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H2563 FAQ

What does chomer (חֹמֶר) mean?

Chomer (Strong's H2563) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "clay". chomer (kho'mer) n-m. 1. (properly) a bubbling up, i.e. of water, a wave 2. of earth, mire or clay (cement)

How many times is chomer (חֹמֶר) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 26 linked usages for Strong's H2563 across 11 books.

Where can I study chomer (חֹמֶר) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H2563 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate chomer (חֹמֶר)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as clay, mire, waters, heaps, and earth. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.