Lexicon komer: a priest (in idol worship) Original Word: כְּמָרִיםPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: komer Phonetic Spelling: (kaw-mawr') Short Definition: priests NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom the same as makmorDefinitiona priest (in idol worship) NASB Translationidolatrous priests (3).
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 כמר priest CIS ii, No. 170, Teima כמרא id. 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; הַכְּמָרִים 2 Kings 23:5, כְּמָרָיו Hosea 10:5, עִםהַֿכֹּהֲנִים ׳הַכּ Zephaniah 1:4. In Hosea 4:4 Beck (in Wü 142) We proposes וְעַמִּי כִּכְמָרָיו (for ᵑ0 וְעַמְּךָ כִּמְרִיבֵי). כמת (√ of following, meaning unknown).
Strong's 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 |
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