Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
clay
Usage: 1) cement, mortar, clay 1a) mortar, cement 1b) clay 1c) mire
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 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.
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
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clay
Usage: 1) cement, mortar, clay 1a) mortar, cement 1b) clay 1c) mire
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.
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.
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26 indexed usages in 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.
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.
And they gathered them together upon heaps: and the land stank.
First 26 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H2563.
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.
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.
And they gathered them together upon heaps: and the land stank.
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.
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.
How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;
He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
Behold, I am according to thy wish in God's stead: I also am formed out of the clay.
It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment.
Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
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.
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?
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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:
So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:
Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.
Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses, through the heap of great waters.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H2563, grouped by book.
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)
This page currently indexes 26 linked usages for Strong's H2563 across 11 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H2563 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
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.