# H2563 חֹמֶר

חֹמֶר (chômer), Strong’s H2563: properly, a bubbling up, i.e. of water, a wave; of earth, mire or clay (cement); also a heap; hence, a chomer or dry measure KJV: clay, heap, homer, mire, motion…

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*chômer* — properly, a bubbling up, i.e. of water, a wave; of earth, mire or clay (cement); also a heap; hence, a chomer or dry measure

KJV: clay, heap, homer, mire, motion.

Derived from [חָמַר châmar](https://besorah.bible/word/H2560) (to boil up)

Occurs 31 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- חֹ֫מֶר n.[m.] heap
- חֹ֫מֶר n.m
- חֹ֫מֶר n.m. homer, a dry measure
- חֹ֫מֶר n.m
- חֹ֫מֶר n.m. cement, mortar, clay

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 11:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/11?v=3) — They said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they used…
- [Exodus 1:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/1?v=14) — and they made their lives bitter with hard service in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field…
- [Exodus 8:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/8?v=10) — They gathered them together in heaps, and the land stank.
- [Leviticus 27:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/27?v=16) — “‘If a man dedicates to the LORD part of the field of his possession, then your valuation shall be according to the…
- [Numbers 11:32](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/11?v=32) — The people rose up all that day, and all of that night, and all the next day, and gathered the quails. He who gathered…
- [Isaiah 5:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/5?v=10) — For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield an efah.”
- [Isaiah 10:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/10?v=6) — I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me I will give him a command to take the…
- [Isaiah 29:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/29?v=16) — You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought to be like clay, that the thing made should say about him who…
- [Isaiah 41:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/41?v=25) — “I have raised up one from the north, and he has come, from the rising of the sun, one who calls on my name, and he…
- [Isaiah 45:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/45?v=9) — Woe to him who strives with his Maker— a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions…