Châmar — H2560

Definition

verb

properly, to boil up; hence, to ferment (with scum); to glow (with redness); to smear with pitch

1. to boil, foam, foam up, ferment
1. (Qal) to boil, foam up
2. (Poalal) to be troubled, be in turmoil
2. (Poalal) to be reddened
3. (Qal) to daub, seal up, cover or smear with asphalt

Usually translated as

be red, daub, befoul, trouble

Origin

a primitive root; also as denominative (from H2564)

• Derived from Chêmâr (H2564)

Greek equivalents

• tarássō (G5015)

Occurrences

Châmar occurs 6 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Exodus (1), Job (1), Psalms (2), Lamentations (2)

• Exodus 2:3 — And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed (וַתַּחְמְרָ֥ה) it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink.
• Job 16:16 — My face is foul (חֳ֭מַרְמְרוּ) with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
• Psalms 46:3 — Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled (יֶחְמְר֣וּ), though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
• Psalms 75:8 — For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red (חָמַ֨ר); it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.
• Lamentations 1:20 — Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled (חֳמַרְמָ֔רוּ); mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.
• Lamentations 2:11 — Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled (חֳמַרְמְר֣וּ), my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.