omer

See also: homer, Omer, and Ömer

English

Alternative forms

  • (small unit of volume): gomer (archaic)
  • (sheaf of barley): Omer

Etymology

From Hebrew עומר \ עֹמֶר ('ómer, sheaf).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈəʊmə/
  • Rhymes: -əʊmə(r)

Noun

omer (plural omers)

  1. (historical units of measure) A former small Hebrew unit of dry volume equal to about 2.3 L or 2.1 quarts.
    • 1644, John Milton, Aeropagitica:
      ...that Omer which was every mans daily portion of Manna, is computed to have bin more then might have well suffic'd the heartiest feeder thrice as many meals.
    • 1769, Bible (KJV), Exodus XVI:
      And it came to pass, that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one man: and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.
  2. A vessel of one omer.
  3. (Judaism) The sheaf of barley offered on the second day of Passover.

Usage notes

In English, sometimes confounded with the much larger homer.

Synonyms

Meronyms

References

  • "omer, n.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • "H6016: `omer" in James Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible
  • "Weights and Measures" at Oxford Biblical Studies Online

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