# H2560 חָמַר

חָמַר (châmar), Strong’s H2560: properly, to boil up; hence, to ferment (with scum); to glow (with redness); to smear with pitch KJV: daub, befoul, be red, trouble.. Occurs 6 times.

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*châmar* — properly, to boil up; hence, to ferment (with scum); to glow (with redness); to smear with pitch

KJV: daub, befoul, be red, trouble.

Derived from [חֵמָר chêmâr](https://besorah.bible/word/H2564) (bitumen)

Occurs 6 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- חָמַר vb. ferment, boil or foam up
- Qal and wine which foams; the great waters foamed; let its waters roar and foam.
- Pe‛al‛al my bowels are in a ferment
- חמר vb
- [חמר] vb. be red
- חָמַר vb. denom
- [חָמַר] vb. denom. cover or smear with asphalt, only Ex 2:3 (E)

## Where it occurs
- [Exodus 2:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/2?v=3) — When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. She put…
- [Psalms 46:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/46?v=4) — though its waters roar and are troubled, though the mountains tremble with their swelling. Selah.
- [Psalms 75:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/75?v=9) — For in the LORD’s hand there is a cup, full of foaming wine mixed with spices. He pours it out. Indeed the wicked of…
- [Job 16:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/16?v=16) — My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids,
- [Lamentations 1:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/lamentations/1?v=20) — “Look, LORD; for I am in distress. My heart is troubled. My heart turns over within me, for I have grievously rebelled…
- [Lamentations 2:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/lamentations/2?v=11) — My eyes fail with tears. My heart is troubled. My bile is poured on the earth, because of the destruction of the…