# חֹמֶר (chomer) Israeli respelling: cho-mer. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew. Strong’s H2563. 26 Old Testament occurrences. 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 King James renderings: clay, heap, homer, mire, motion. Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/chomer-h2563 ## Occurrences - [Genesis 11:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/11/3) — 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 mort… - [Exodus 1:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/1/14) — 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,… - [Exodus 8:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/8/14) — And they gathered them together upon heaps: and the land stank. - [Leviticus 27:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/27/16) — 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 thereo… - [Numbers 11:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/11/32) — 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 gather… - [Job 4:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/4/19) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/10/9) — Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again? - [Job 13:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/13/12) — Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay. - [Job 27:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/27/16) — Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay; - [Job 30:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/30/19) — He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes. - [Job 33:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/33/6) — Behold, I am according to thy wish in God’s stead: I also am formed out of the clay. - [Job 38:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/38/14) — It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment. - [Isaiah 5:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/5/10) — Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah. - [Isaiah 10:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/10/6) — 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… - [Isaiah 29:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/29/16) — 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 no… - [Isaiah 41:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/41/25) — 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 princ… - [Isaiah 45:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/45/9) — 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 fashione… - [Isaiah 64:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/64/8) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/18/4) — 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… - [Jeremiah 18:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/18/6) — 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… - [Ezekiel 45:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/45/11) — 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 ho… - [Ezekiel 45:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/45/13) — 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… - [Ezekiel 45:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/45/14) — 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; f… - [Hosea 3:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/3/2) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nahum/3/14) — Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln. - [Habakkuk 3:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/habakkuk/3/15) — Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses, through the heap of great waters.