חֲמַר
wine
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Particle, Definite Article 4 times (67%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 2 times (33%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 6 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H2562 appears — 6 distinct verses across 2 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Ezra 2 verses
- Ezra 6:9 חֲמַ֣ר n c ms That which they have need of, both young bulls, and rams, and lambs, for burnt offerings to the God of heaven; [also] wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the word of the priests who are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail;
- Ezra 7:22 חֲמַר֙ n c ms to one hundred talents of silver, and to one hundred measures of wheat, and to one hundred baths of wine, and to one hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.
Daniel 4 verses
- Daniel 5:1 חַמְרָ֥/א n c ms det + ptcl def.art Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
- Daniel 5:2 חַמְרָ֗/א n c ms det + ptcl def.art Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, might drink from it.
- Daniel 5:4 חַמְרָ֑/א n c ms det + ptcl def.art They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
- Daniel 5:23 חַמְרָ/א֮ n c ms det + ptcl def.art but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your concubines, have drunk wine from them; and you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which don't see, nor hear, nor know; and the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not glorified.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
חמר (chămar) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “wine.” Daniel dominates its distribution — 4 of 6 verses. Spanning 6 verses in 2 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Hebrew Bible. It first appears in Ezra 6:9. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2562 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 6
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 6 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,040
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,040 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 6 occurrences in the concordance →
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 6 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 6 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Wine 6×
- American Standard Version: Wine 6×
- Berean Standard Bible: Wine 5×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Wine 6×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2562 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2562 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2562 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2562 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- wine
Word origin
Derived from חמר (chemer) (H2561) — wine.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
חָמַר I
- (cmp. חָבַר)
- 1. to join; to pile up, to load. Ukts. II, 5 והבצלים שחֲמָרָן and the onions which one has piled up; v. אָמַן.—Zeb. 53ᵃ וחוֹמֵר בגודלו וכ׳ and loads (i.e. supports the index finger) with his thumb on top and the little finger below (like a balanced load, v. חֶבֶר a. אֵבֶר); [Var. סוֹמֵךְ, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 3]; Yalk. Lev. 469.
- 2. (denom. of חָמוּר) to be weighty, stringent. Ohol. XIV, 3 אל יֶחְמוֹר זה וכ׳ this must not be made more stringent than &c.; [ed. Dehr. יַחְמִיר.]
- [to put a load on,] to pass a restrictive law, to incline to the stricter opinion, opp. היקל to make easy. Yeb. 88ᵃ מתיך חומר שהֶחְמַרְתָּ עליה וכ׳ on account of the restrictions under which the law puts her in the end (if she marries again and her first husband appears), it is made easy for her in the beginning (by allowing her to marry again), i.e. her heavy responsibility will make her cautious; Y. Gitt. I, beg. 43ᵃ (add: מתוך). Nidd. 66ᵃ, a. fr. הֶחְמִירוּ על עצמן they placed themselves under greater restrictions (than the law requires). Ned. I, 1 להחְמִיר, v. חָכַךְ II. Eduy. III, 10, a. e. מַחְמִיר כדברי וכ׳ he adopts the stricter opinion of &c.; a. v. fr.
- , v. חַמָּר II.]
חֲמַר
- as preced. Hif.—Y. Shek. VII, 50ᶜ bot. [read:] חמתון מקילין לון וחַ׳ וכ׳ he saw them to be lax in their practices, and he enjoined strictness on them. Yeb. 88ᵃ לא לִיחַמֵּיר וכ׳ let one not put her under heavy restrictions (in the end), and not make it too easy for her (in the beginning, v. preced.). Nidd. 66ᵃ היכא דאַחְמוּר וכ׳ in those cases in which they have placed themselves under greater restrictions (than the law requires, v. preced.), they have done so (and follow the usage like a law), but where they have not &c. (you cannot extend the adopted usage by analogy); a. fr.—Part. pass. מַחְמַר, מְחַמַּר piled up, ruins; v. מַחְמר a. דִּמְחַמְרָא.
- to be piled up, to form a pile of ruins (cmp. גַּל). Targ. Is. XVII, 9; XXX, 13.
חָמַר II
- (b. h.) [to be hot,]
- 1. to glow, to parch (cmp. כָּמַר). Snh. VII, 2 וחוֹמֶרֶת את וכ׳ and parches his entrails; (Ar., v. חָמַד).
- to be parched. Ḥull. III, 3 נפלה לאור ונֶחְמְרוּ וכ׳ if the bird fell into fire, and (on examination after slaughtering it was found that) its bowels were affected by inhaling heat (Ar., v. חָמַד). Gen. R. s. 38, end.
חֲמַר ²
- 1. to be hot, parched. Targ. Job XXX, 27 חֲמַרוּ (Var. חֲמָרוּ, Ms. חַמָּרוּ Pa.; h. text רתח׳).
- 2. to ferment, v. next w., a. חֲמִירָא.
חֲמַר III
- (preced.) wine(b. h.. Targ. Num. VI, 3; a. fr.—Targ. Hos. III, 1 בחַמְרֵיה ed. Lag. (ed. בחבריה, corr. acc.) in his wine (intoxication).—Sabb. 77ᵃ, a. e., v. דְּרֵי II. Ḥull. 112ᵃ קרי ליה חמר בשר (Ar. המר) called it (that juice) meat-wine.—Gen. R. s. 91 end ח׳ קטף wine mixed with resin.—Erub. 53ᵇ, v. אִימַּר; a. fr.—Pl. חַמְרִין. Targ. Y. Gen. L, 1.
חֲמָר
- 1. ass; trnsf. workingman’s contrivance, jack &c. Targ. Is. XXI, 7. Targ. Ex. XIII, 13; a. fr.—Sabb. 66ᵇ; Y. ib. VI, 8ᶜ, v. אָנְקִטְמִין; a. v. fr.—Pl. חֲמָרִין, חֲמָרַיָּא, חֲמָרֵי. Targ. Gen. XII, 16 (Y. ed. Amst. חַמְרִין). Ib. XXXVI, 24 (Y. ed. Amst. חַמְרַיָּא); a. e.—Gen. R. s. 38 (ref. to בני האדם, Gen. XI, 5) וכי מה נאמר בני ח׳ could we think young asses (built it)?—Y. Dem. I, 21ᵈ bot. Ib. 22ᵃ top; a. fr. e.g. Genesis 11:5
- 2. ח׳ דמיא sea-ass, name of a sea fish, hake (v. Sm. Ant. s. v. Onos). Ab. Zar. 39ᵃ
חַמָּר I
- (v. חֲמַר II; cmp. חָמַם) dark; trnsf. mourning. Targ. Ps. XXXV, 14; XXXVIII, 7 Ms. (ed. חַכִּיר, Lev. הביר; h. text קֹדֵר).
חַמָּר II
- (denom. of חֲמוֹר) ass-driver, attendant of beasts of burden. Kidd. IV, 14, a. e., v. גַּמָּל. Kel. XXVI, 5 (6) עור החמיר ועור הח׳ Maim. (v. comment. ed. Dehr.; Mish. ed. עור הח׳, Talm. ed. עור החמור) the ass’ leather cover and the ass-driver’s apron; a. fr.—ח׳ גמל, v. גַּמָּל.—Pl. חַמָּרִים, חַמָּרִין. Dem. IV, 7. Kidd. l. c. a. fr.—Denom.: חִמֵּר to direct a loaded beast’s motions by walking behind it, to load a beast. Sabb. 153ᵇ; Ab. Zar. 15ᵃ המְחַמֵּר אחר וכ׳ he who drives his beast of burden by walking behind it. Sabb. l. c. והלא מחמר but does he not violate the Sabbath as a driver (by placing his money bag on the ass)?—Pes. 66ᵇ מח׳ כלאחר יד הוא it is an act of driving in an unusual way (the lamb usually not being used as a beast of burden); a. fr.
חַמָּר
- Y. Taan. I, 64ᵇ bot. ח׳ אנא I am an ass-driver. Ib. פלן ח׳ יצלי let that certain ass-driver pray. [Ib. חמר עבין ההוא גוברא וכ׳, read: חמש עבירן וכ׳, v. margin ed. Krot.]—Y. Snh. VI, beg. 23ᵇ הא שאלתא דח׳ in that form it would be an ass-driver’s question.—Pl. חַמָּרַיָּיא. Y. Taan. IV, 67ᶜ bot.
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Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms H2562 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| חֲמַ֣ר | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezra 6:9 | 1 |
| חֲמַר֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezra 7:22 | 1 |
| חַמְרָ/א֮ | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 5:23 | 1 |
| חַמְרָ֑/א | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 5:4 | 1 |
| חַמְרָ֗/א | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 5:2 | 1 |
| חַמְרָ֥/א | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 5:1 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 5 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 6 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
