חֹמֶרchômer

Meanings

Same root

• חָמַרchâmar · H2560properly, to boil up; hence, to ferment (with scum); to glow (with redness); to smear with pitch
• חֲמֹרָהchămôrâh · H2565a heap

Where it appears

Appears 31 times in the Bible.

• Genesis 11:3 They began saying to each other, “Let’s make bricks and harden them with fire.” (In this region bricks were used instead of stone, and tar was used for mortar.)
• Exodus 1:14 They made their lives bitter, forcing them to mix mortar and make bricks and do all the work in the fields. They were ruthless in all their demands.
• Exodus 8:14 The Egyptians piled them into great heaps, and a terrible stench filled the land.
• Leviticus 27:16 “If someone dedicates to the Lord a piece of his family property, its value will be assessed according to the amount of seed required to plant it—fifty shekels of silver for a field planted with five bushels of barley seed.
• Numbers 11:32 So the people went out and caught quail all that day and throughout the night and all the next day, too. No one gathered less than fifty bushels! They spread the quail all around the camp to dry.
• Job 4:19 how much less will he trust people made of clay! They are made of dust, crushed as easily as a moth.