חֲמֹרָה
chămôrâh · H2565 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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heap, pile
Quantity of objects lying one on another
ExamplesJudges 15:16 And Samson said, “With the jawbone of a donkey, Heaps upon heaps, With the jawbone of a donkey I have killed a thousand men.”
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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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Semantic domains 5 entries
- Dust001002005005
- This code is inherited from the shared homograph on this spelling, the word for clay or mire; this entry's own two occurrences denote a heap, not an earthen material.
- Weak002001001069
- This code is inherited from the shared homograph on this spelling rather than from an independent sense in this entry's own occurrences, which denote a heap of slain bodies.
- Capacity002001001010
- This code is inherited from the shared homograph on this spelling, the word for the homer measure; this entry's own sense is a heap, not a unit of volume.
- Unsteady002001001067
- The word denotes a heap, as in Judges 15:16's account of Samson's poetic boast of piling up heaps upon heaps of slain men with a donkey's jawbone.
- Quantity002001001046
- The word denotes a heap or accumulated quantity, as in Judges 15:16's repeated image of heaps upon heaps.
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2565. chamorah or chamor
or chamor
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
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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