3649. komer
Strong's Concordance
komer: a priest (in idol worship)
Original Word: כְּמָרִים
Part 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 ūḵəmārāw
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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
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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