Chamor חֲמוֹר

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Chamor
חֲמוֹר
Transliterationchamor
Strong's numberH2543
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechnoun
Glossdonkey
Occurrences96 in 93 verses
Most frequent inGenesis (17)

Chamor (Hebrew חֲמוֹר, Strong's H2543) is a Hebrew noun meaning “donkey”. It occurs 96 times in 93 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

(he) ass

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVass (55), asses (40), ass's (1)
BSBdonkey (37), donkeys (34), his donkey (6), their donkeys (6), her donkey (3), our donkeys (2), your donkey (2), male and female donkeys (1), nor donkeys (1), his donkeys (1), i will have my donkey (1), donkey's (1), and 1 other rendering

Verses

Every verse with Chamor, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

Exodus

Numbers

Deuteronomy

Joshua

Judges

1 Samuel

2 Samuel

1 Kings

2 Kings

1 Chronicles

2 Chronicles

Ezra

Nehemiah

Job

Proverbs

Isaiah

Jeremiah

Ezekiel

Zechariah

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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