חֹ֫מֶר

Genesis 11:3 לַחֹֽמֶר׃ to <the> mortar

And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar.

Here: 'As mortar.' Chomer is the clay or mud that, in the narrator's world, normally held stones together. Chemar ('bitumen') and chomer ('mortar') differ by a single vowel, a deliberate pun.

Exodus 1:14 בְּחֹ֙מֶר֙ in mortar

and made their lives bitter with hard labor in brick and mortar, and with all kinds of work in the fields. Every service they imposed was harsh.

Here: 'In clay/mud': the wet Nile mud used both to mold bricks and as mortar between them. Hebrew puts the mud first, before the bricks.

Exodus 8:14 חֳמָרִ֣ם חֳמָרִ֑ם heaps

They were piled into countless heaps, and there was a terrible stench in the land.

Leviticus 27:16 חֹ֣מֶר a homer of

If a man consecrates to the LORD a parcel of his land, then your valuation shall be proportional to the seed required for it—fifty shekels of silver for every homer of barley seed.

Here: The largest dry measure, ten ephahs. The name seems to come from ḥamor, 'donkey', so it was roughly a donkey-load. Modern estimates of its size vary widely.

Numbers 11:32 חֳמָרִ֑ים homers

All that day and night, and all the next day, the people stayed up gathering the quail. No one gathered less than ten homers, and they spread them out all around the camp.

Job 4:19 חֹ֗מֶר clay

how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!

Here: Wet clay, the potter's and brickmaker's material. It recalls humanity being formed from the ground and stresses how soft and breakable the human frame is.

Job 10:9 כַחֹ֣מֶר like <the> clay

Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?

Here: 'Like the clay', meaning the potter's wet earth. The image says two things at once: Job was shaped by hand with skill and care, and he is made of fragile, breakable stuff.

Job 13:12 חֹ֝֗מֶר clay

Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.

Job 27:16 וְ֝כַחֹ֗מֶר and like <the> clay

Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up a wardrobe like clay,

Here: 'And like the clay': the wet mud of a potter's pit or a builder's trench, cheap and endlessly available. It pairs with 'dust' as Job's usual image of what humans are made of (Job 4:19; 10:9; 30:19).

Job 30:19 לַחֹ֑מֶר to the mud

He throws me into the mud, and I have become like dust and ashes.

Job 33:6 מֵ֝חֹ֗מֶר from clay

I am just like you before God; I was also formed from clay.

Job 38:14 כְּחֹ֣מֶר like [the] clay of

The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its hills stand out like the folds of a garment.

Isaiah 5:10 חֹ֖מֶר a homer

For ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain.”

Isaiah 10:6 כְּחֹ֥מֶר like [the] mud of

I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.

Here: 'Like mud.' Elsewhere in Isaiah this is the potter's clay. Here it is the worthless muck that everyone walks through.

Isaiah 29:16 כְּחֹ֥מֶר like [the] clay of

You have turned things upside down, as if the potter were regarded as clay. Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, “He did not make me”? Can the pottery say of the potter, “He has no understanding”?

Here: 'Like clay': the wet, shapeless raw material that has no say in what it becomes. In the question the potter is put on the clay's level.

Isaiah 41:25 חֹ֔מֶר mud

I have raised up one from the north, and he has come—one from the east who calls on My name. He will march over rulers as if they were mortar, like a potter who treads the clay.

Here: 'Mud / wet clay.' This is the soft earth used for bricks, plaster and pottery, and the 'mortar' of Genesis 11:3. The picture is of something soft and wet under the feet, not hard cement.

Isaiah 45:9 חֹ֤מֶר clay

Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker—one clay pot among many. Does the clay ask the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘He has no hands’?

Here: Wet, unformed clay on the wheel, still being shaped. The step back from 'fired pot' to 'raw clay' makes the objection even sillier: the material is talking back while the potter is still working on it.

Isaiah 64:8 הַחֹ֙מֶר֙ [are] the clay

But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand.

Here: "The clay": wet earth, mud, potter's clay, mortar. It is the raw stuff that has no form or worth of its own until a maker shapes it. The word stresses that they are made and dependent. It also suggests weakness: clay is easily marred.

Jeremiah 18:4 בַּחֹ֖מֶר with the clay

But the vessel that he was shaping from the clay became flawed in his hand; so he formed it into another vessel, as it seemed best for him to do.

Here: "With/out of the clay." Chomer is wet, workable clay (the word is also used for mud and mortar). Wet clay can still be reshaped, and the whole image depends on that.

Jeremiah 18:6 כַחֹ֙מֶר֙ like the clay

“O house of Israel, declares the LORD, can I not treat you as this potter treats his clay? Just like clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel.

Here: 'Like the clay': wet, workable potter's clay still on the wheel. It is not a fired pot. The same word can mean mud or mortar, the ordinary stuff underfoot.

Ezekiel 45:11 הַחֹ֖מֶר הַחֹ֙מֶר֙ הַחֹ֖מֶר the homer

The ephah and the bath shall be the same quantity so that the bath will contain a tenth of a homer, and the ephah a tenth of a homer; the homer will be the standard measure for both.

Ezekiel 45:13 מֵחֹ֣מֶר מֵחֹ֖מֶר from [the] homer of

This is the contribution you are to offer: a sixth of an ephah from each homer of wheat, and a sixth of an ephah from each homer of barley.

Ezekiel 45:14 חֹ֑מֶר חֹֽמֶר׃ [are] a homer

The prescribed portion of oil, measured by the bath, is a tenth of a bath from each cor (a cor consists of ten baths or one homer, since ten baths are equivalent to a homer).

Hosea 3:2 וְחֹ֥מֶר and a homer of

So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a lethech of barley.

Nahum 3:14 בַחֹ֖מֶר on the mortar

Draw your water for the siege; strengthen your fortresses. Work the clay and tread the mortar; repair the brick kiln!

Habakkuk 3:15 חֹ֖מֶר a heap of

You trampled the sea with Your horses, churning the great waters.