Word

עֹמֶר

ʻômer · H6016 · Hebrew · 14 occurrences

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A word for 2 things

SheafAgriculture and farming14 verses
OmerMeasures of volume in the Old Testament6 verses

Meanings

sheaf

Bundle of harvested ears of grain

Examples
Leviticus 23:10 “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘When you enter the land which I am going to give to you and you gather its harvest, then you shall bring in the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest.
Leviticus 23:11 ‘He shall wave the sheaf before the LORD for you to be accepted; on the day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.
Leviticus 23:12 ‘Now on the day when you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a male lamb one year old without defect as a burnt offering to the LORD.
omer

Unit of dry measure of 2.2 liters or 2 quarts; 10 omers make up 1 ephah

Examples
Exodus 16:16 “This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Everyone gather as much as he will eat; you shall take an omer apiece according to the number of people each of you has in his tent.’”
Exodus 16:18 When they measured it by the omer, the one who had gathered much did not have too much, and the one who had gathered little did not have too little; everyone gathered as much as he would eat.
Exodus 16:22 Now on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one. When all the leaders of the congregation came and told Moses,

How it’s used In 6 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

2 occurrences in 2 groups

רֵאשִׁיתbeginning, first, best 1
תְּנוּפָהwave offering 1

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

1 occurrences in 1 groups

שְׁנַיִםtwo 1

What is done to itIt is the object

6 occurrences in 4 groups

נוּףto wave 2
בּוֹאto come, to go in, to bring 2
נָשָׂאto lift up, to carry, to bear 1
שָׁכַחto forget 1

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

אֶחָדone 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

3 occurrences in 2 groups

בin/on/with 4
בֵּיןbetween, among 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

2 occurrences in 1 groups

מְלֹאgroup 2

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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Near synonyms 1 word

אֲגֻדָּה ʼăguddâh · H92 · cord, bundle: Both words refer to bound collections (sheaf, bunch), overlapping in the narrow sense of bundled or gathered items. אֲגֻדָּה (ʼăguddâh, H92) has a broader range (burden, troop), so the overlap may be limited.

Semantic domains 2 entries

Bind002003001002: עֹמֶר denotes a sheaf, the bound bundle of grain gathered at harvest (compare Leviticus 23:10-15's wave-offering sheaf).
Capacity002001001010: The word also names the omer, a dry measure of volume used for manna (Exodus 16:16, 18, 32-36).

Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

עָמַר ʻâmar · H6014 · to bind, to treat as a slave · 3×עֹמֶרʻômer · H6016עָמִיר ʻâmîyr · H5995 · cut grain, sheaves · 4×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6016. omer I. עֹ֫מֶר noun masculineLev 23:11 sheaf (swath, row of fallen grain, WetzstZ.…

H6016. omer
I. עֹ֫מֶר noun masculineLev 23:11 sheaf (swath, row of fallen grain, WetzstZ. f. Ethnol. 1873, 273 (Syriac Dreschtafel), against him VogelstLandwirthschaft in Pal, 61 who translates heap of sheaves); — ׳ע absolute Deu 24:19; Lev 23:11-12, Lev 23:15, construct Lev 23:10; figurative of food (absolute) Job 24:10; plural עֳמָרִים literal Rth 2:7, Rth 2:15.
II. עֹ֫מֶר noun masculineExo 16:22 omer (compare Arabic small drinking cup or bowl; relation to I. ׳ע obscure); — a measure, only Exodus 16; — the measure itself Exo 16:18; Exo 16:32; Exo 16:33; amount measured Exo 16:16; Exo 16:22; = 1/10 ephah Exo 16:36; ᵐ5 γόμορ.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Capacity6 occurrences Bind8 occurrences

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