חֲמַר
chămar · H2562 · Aramaic · 6 occurrences
Thing
- WineFood and Drink268 verses
Meanings
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wine
A dark red alcoholic liquid made out of grapes through fermentation, used as a beverage though to be avoided by Nazirites and by priests on duty, and associated with joy and well-being but also with drunkenness and foolishness
ExamplesEzra 6:9 “And whatever is needed, bulls, rams, and lambs for burnt offerings to the God of heaven, and wheat, salt, wine, and anointing oil, as the priests in Jerusalem order, it is to be given to them daily without fail,
Ezra 7:22 up to a hundred talents of silver, a hundred kors of wheat, a hundred baths of wine, a hundred baths of anointing oil, and salt as needed.
Daniel 5:1 Belshazzar the king held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he was drinking wine in the presence of the thousand.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בַּתbath 1
What is done to itIt is the object
3 occurrences in 1 groups
- שְׁתָהdrink 3
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עַדand 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- טְעֵםchancellor 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 2 words
- οἶνος oînos · G3631 · wine, new wine, grape juice
- Greek οἶνος is the direct translation equivalent of Aramaic חֲמַר, both denoting wine as a fermented beverage, reflecting the standard lexical correspondence between the Hebrew/Aramaic and Greek biblical texts.
- חֶמֶר chemer · H2561 · (fermenting) wine
- חֲמַר (chămar, H2562) (Aramaic חֲמַר) and חֶמֶר (chemer, H2561) (Hebrew חֶמֶר) are cognate reflexes of the same Semitic root denoting wine, with חֶמֶר (chemer, H2561) specified as red/pure wine in Hebrew contexts while חֲמַר (chămar, H2562) serves as the Aramaic equivalent in Daniel's usage.
Semantic domains 3 entries
- Liquids001002005007
- Daniel 5:1 recounts that “Belshazzar the king held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he was drinking wine in the presence of the thousand.”
- Wine001003001003005
- Ezra 7:22 has the king's decree allow “up to a hundred talents of silver, a hundred kors of wheat, a hundred baths of wine, a hundred baths of anointing oil, and salt as needed.”
- Crops001003001003002
- Ezra 6:9 records Darius's decree, “whatever is needed, bulls, rams, and lambs for burnt offerings to the God of heaven, and wheat, salt, wine, and anointing oil, as the priests in Jerusalem order, it is to be given to them daily without fail.”
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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