Lexical Summary komer: a priest (in idol worship) Original Word: כָּמָרTransliteration: komer Phonetic Spelling: (kaw-mawr') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: a priest (in idol worship) Meaning: an ascetic, an idolatrous priest Strong's 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 Brown-Driver-Briggs H3649. komer [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, ׳הַכּ עִםהַֿכֹּהֲנִים Zephaniah 1:4. In Hosea 4:4 Beck (in Wü142) We proposes כִּכְמָרָיו וְעַמִּי (for כִּמְרִיבֵי וְעַמְּךָ ᵑ0). כמת (√ of following, meaning unknown). |