עֲמַר
ʻămar · H6015 · Aramaic · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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wool
The soft wavy undercoat of hairy animals such as sheep, used to weave a fabric from which clothing was made, associated with whiteness, purity and softness
ExamplesDaniel 7:9 “I kept looking Until thrones were set up, And the Ancient of Days took His seat; His garment was white as snow, And the hair of His head like pure wool. His throne was ablaze with flames, Its wheels were a burning fire.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נְקֵאpure 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- שְׂעַרhair 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- כlike/as 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 1 word
- ἔριον érion · G2053 · wool
- ἔριον is the standard Greek word for wool, the direct translation equivalent of עֲמַר in the LXX and New Testament contexts where wool is mentioned.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Cloth001002005003
- Daniel 7:9 recounts Daniel's vision of the Ancient of Days, “His garment was white as snow, And the hair of His head like pure wool.”
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6015. amar עֲמַר noun masculine wool (ᵑ7 Syriac; Egyptian Aramaic עמר S-CG7, 10, קמר…
עֲמַר noun masculine wool (ᵑ7 Syriac; Egyptian Aramaic עמר S-CG7, 10, קמר Id.H 5; compare Mandean אקאמרא, NöM 72; see Biblical Hebrew צמר); — absolute Dan 7:9.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
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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