Strong's Concordance komer: a priest (in idol worship) Original Word: כְּמָרִיםPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: komer Phonetic Spelling: (kaw-mawr') Short Definition: priests Brown-Driver-Briggs [כֹּ֫מֶר] noun masculine (idol-)priest (so Late Hebrew כּוּמָר; Aramaic , כּוּמְרָא, is also priest of God; Nerab כמר HalRev. Semitic 1896, 280, 282; Nabataean כמר priest CISii, No. 170, Teima כמרא id. CISii, No. 113 a, b, b bis; so כמר Neo-Punic EutZMG. 1875, 238, 239 BergerJAs Apr.-June, 1887, 465; perhaps Tel Amarna kamiru BezBM.:Tabl, xxvi; Or. Dipl. 92; WklTA. 1, 15, 33 leaves untranslated); — plural absolute, in O.T. only of idol-priests; הַכְּמָרִים 2 Kings 23:5, כְּמָרָיו Hosea 10:5, עִםהַֿכֹּהֲנִים ׳הַכּ Zephaniah 1:4. In Hosea 4:4 Beck (in Wü142) We proposes וְעַמִּי כִּכְמָרָיו (for ᵑ0 וְעַמְּךָ כִּמְרִיבֵי). כמת (√ of following, meaning unknown). Strong's Exhaustive Concordance Chemarims idolatrous priests From kamar; properly, an ascetic (as if shrunk with self-maceration), i.e. An idolatrous priest (only in plural) -- Chemarims (idolatrous) priests. see HEBREW kamar Forms and Transliterations הַכְּמָרִ֖ים הַכְּמָרִ֗ים הכמרים וּכְמָרָיו֙ וכמריו hak·kə·mā·rîm hakkemaRim hakkəmārîm ū·ḵə·mā·rāw uchemaRav ūḵəmārāwLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel TextsEnglishman's Concordance Strong's Hebrew 36493 Occurrences hak·kə·mā·rîm — 2 Occ. ū·ḵə·mā·rāw — 1 Occ. 2 Kings 23:5 HEB: וְהִשְׁבִּ֣ית אֶת־ הַכְּמָרִ֗ים אֲשֶׁ֤ר נָֽתְנוּ֙ NAS: He did away with the idolatrous priests whom KJV: And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings INT: did the idolatrous whom had appointed Hosea 10:5 Zephaniah 1:4 |