Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #2558 - חֹמֶץ chomets

Original Word:	חֹמֶץ
Transliteration:	chomets
Phonetic Spelling:	(kho'-mets)
Definition:	vinegar
Part of Speech:	Noun Masculine
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

vinegar

From chamets; vinegar -- vinegar.

see HEBREW chamets

Englishman's Concordance

1) vinegar
Part of Speech: noun masculine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from H2556
Same Word by TWOT Number: 679b

Brown-Driver-Briggs

חֹ֫מֶץnoun masculinevinegar — ׳ח absolute Proverbs 10:26 3t.; construct Numbers 6:3 (twice in verse); — a common condiment Ruth 2:14, forbidden to Nazirite (יין׳ח and שֵׁכָר׳ח) Numbers 6:3 (twice in verse) (P), offered (in cruelty) to a thirsty man Psalm 69:22 (figurative for harshness lack of sympathy); in simile of sluggard כַּחֹמֶץ לַשִּׁנַּיִםProverbs 10:26, עַלנָֿ֑תֶר׳חProverbs 25:20vinegar on nitre (simile of merry songs for the heavy-hearted).

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 2558. חֹ֫מֶץ (chomets) — 6 Occurrences

Numbers 6:3
HEB:וְשֵׁכָר֙ יַזִּ֔יר חֹ֥מֶץ יַ֛יִן וְחֹ֥מֶץ
NAS: no vinegar, whether made from wine
KJV: and shall drink no vinegar of wine,
INT: and strong shall abstain vinegar wine vinegar

Numbers 6:3
HEB:חֹ֥מֶץ יַ֛יִן וְחֹ֥מֶץ שֵׁכָ֖ר לֹ֣א
KJV: of wine, or vinegar of strong drink,
INT: vinegar wine vinegar drink no

Ruth 2:14
HEB:וְטָבַ֥לְתְּ פִּתֵּ֖ךְ בַּחֹ֑מֶץ וַתֵּ֙שֶׁב֙ מִצַּ֣ד
NAS: your piece of bread in the vinegar. So she sat
KJV: thy morsel in the vinegar. And she sat
INT: and dip your piece the vinegar sat beside

Psalm 69:21
HEB:וְ֝לִצְמָאִ֗י יַשְׁק֥וּנִי חֹֽמֶץ׃
NAS: they gave me vinegar to drink.
KJV: and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
INT: my thirst gave vinegar

Proverbs 10:26
HEB: כַּחֹ֤מֶץ ׀ לַשִּׁנַּ֗יִם וְכֶעָשָׁ֥ן
NAS:Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke
KJV:As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke
INT:vinegar to the teeth and smoke

Proverbs 25:20
HEB:בְּי֣וֹם קָ֭רָה חֹ֣מֶץ עַל־ נָ֑תֶר
NAS: day, [or like] vinegar on soda,
KJV: weather, [and as] vinegar upon nitre,
INT: day A cold vinegar on soda

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