Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #3649 - כָּמָר komer (a priest (in idol worship))

Original Word:	כָּמָר
Transliteration:	komer
Definition:	a priest (in idol worship)
Part of Speech:	Noun Masculine
Phonetic Spelling:	(kaw-mawr')
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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

Englishman's Concordance

1) priest, idolatrous priest
Part of Speech: noun masculine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from H3648
Same Word by TWOT Number: 996

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[כֹּ֫מֶר] noun masculine(idol-)priest (so Late Hebrew כּוּמָר; Aramaic

, כּוּמְרָא, is also priest of God; Nerab כמר Hal^{Rev. Semitic 1896, 280, 282}; Nabataean כמרpriest CIS^{ii, No. 170, Teima}כמראid. CIS^{ii, No. 113 a, b, b}bis; so כמר Neo-Punic Eut^{ZMG. 1875, 238, 239} Berger^{JAs Apr.-June, 1887, 465}; perhaps Tel Amarna kamiru Bez^{BM.:Tabl, xxvi; Or. Dipl. 92}; Wkl^{TA. 1, 15, 33 leaves untranslated}); — plural absolute, in O.T. only of idol-priests; הַכְּמָרִים2 Kings 23:5, כְּמָרָיוHosea 10:5, עִםהַֿכֹּהֲנִים׳הַכּZephaniah 1:4. In Hosea 4:4 Beck (in Wü¹⁴²) We proposes וְעַמִּי כִּכְמָרָיו (for ᵑ0וְעַמְּךָ כִּמְרִיבֵי).

כמת (√ of following, meaning unknown).

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 3649. כְּמָרִים (komer) — 3 Occurrences

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
HEB:עָלָ֜יו עַמּ֗וֹ וּכְמָרָיו֙ עָלָ֣יו יָגִ֔ילוּ
NAS: will mourn for it, And its idolatrous priests will cry
KJV: thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof [that] rejoiced
INT: over people idolatrous Over will cry

Zephaniah 1:4
HEB:אֶת־ שֵׁ֥ם הַכְּמָרִ֖ים עִם־ הַכֹּהֲנִֽים׃
NAS: [And] the names of the idolatrous priests along
KJV: [and] the name of the Chemarims with the priests;
INT: of Baal the names of the idolatrous along the priests

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