Original Word: כָּמָר
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: kamar
Pronunciation: koh'-mer
Phonetic Spelling: (kaw-mawr')
KJV: Chemarims (idolatrous) priests
NASB: idolatrous priests
Word Origin: [from H3648 (כָּמַר - stirred)]

1. (properly) an ascetic (as if shrunk with self-maceration), i.e. an idolatrous priest (only in plural)

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

Word Origin
from the same as makmor
Definition
a priest (in idol worship)
NASB Translation
idolatrous priests (3).

[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 Wü¹⁴²) We proposes וְעַמִּי כִּכְמָרָיו (for ᵑ0 וְעַמְּךָ כִּמְרִיבֵי).

כמת (√ of following, meaning unknown).

הַכְּמָרִ֖ים הַכְּמָרִ֗ים הכמרים וּכְמָרָיו֙ וכמריו hak·kə·mā·rîm hakkemaRim hakkəmārîm ū·ḵə·mā·rāw uchemaRav ūḵəmārāwInterlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts