עֹמֶר

Biblical Hebrew

omer — used 6 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

OpenScriptures lexical index

omer tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֹ֫מֶר²: n.m. omer tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.m. Ex 16:22 omer (cf. Arabic غُمَرٌ small drinking cup or bowl; relation to i. ע׳ obscure);—a measure, only Ex 16;—the measure itself v 18, 32, 33; amount measured v 16, 22; = 1/10 ephah v 36; 𝔊 γόμορ.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: omer (2); the omer (2); an omer (1).

In the verses

Exodus 16:36 · tree →

וְהָעֹ֕מֶר עֲשִׂרִ֥ית הָאֵיפָ֖ה הֽוּא׃פ

Word for word: and the omer [is].the.tenth.[part] of the.ephah it

JPS 1917: Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.

Exodus 16:18 · tree →

וַיָּמֹ֣דּוּ בָעֹ֔מֶר וְלֹ֤א הֶעְדִּיף֙ הַמַּרְבֶּ֔ה וְהַמַּמְעִ֖יט לֹ֣א הֶחְסִ֑יר אִ֥ישׁ לְפִֽי־אָכְל֖וֹ לָקָֽטוּ׃

Word for word: and they.measured.[it] by the omer and not he.had.a.surplus the.[one who].made.much and the.[one who].made.little not he.had.a.lack everyone to the.mouth his.food his they.had.gathered

JPS 1917: And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.

On Mova

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Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).

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