עֹמֶרʻômer

Meanings

Same root

• עָמַרʻâmar · H6014to gather grain

Where it appears

Appears 14 times in the Bible.

• Exodus 16:16 These are the Lord’s instructions: Each household should gather as much as it needs. Pick up two quarts for each person in your tent.”
• Exodus 16:18 But when they measured it out, everyone had just enough. Those who gathered a lot had nothing left over, and those who gathered only a little had enough. Each family had just what it needed.
• Exodus 16:22 On the sixth day, they gathered twice as much as usual—four quarts for each person instead of two. Then all the leaders of the community came and asked Moses for an explanation.
• Exodus 16:32 Then Moses said, “This is what the Lord has commanded: Fill a two-quart container with manna to preserve it for your descendants. Then later generations will be able to see the food I gave you in the wilderness when I set you free from Egypt.”
• Exodus 16:33 Moses said to Aaron, “Get a jar and fill it with two quarts of manna. Then put it in a sacred place before the Lord to preserve it for all future generations.”
• Exodus 16:36 The container used to measure the manna was an omer, which was one-tenth of an ephah; it held about two quarts.