STRONGS NUMBER H3649


Word Summary
komer: a priest (in idol worship)
Original Word: כָּמָר
Transliteration: komer
Phonetic Spelling: (kaw-mawr')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: a priest (in idol worship)
Meaning: an ascetic, an idolatrous priest
Strong's 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

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H3649. komer

[כֹּ֫מֶר‎] noun masculine (idol-)priest (so Late Hebrew כּוּמָר‎; Aramaic , כּוּמְרָא‎, is also priest of God; Nerab כמר‎ HalRev. Semitic 1896, 280, 282; Nabataean כמרpriest CISii, No. 170, Teima כמראid. 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; הַכְּמָרִים2 Kings 23:5, כְּמָרָיוHosea 10:5, ׳הַכּ עִםהַֿכֹּהֲנִיםZephaniah 1:4. In Hosea 4:4 Beck (in Wü142) We proposes כִּכְמָרָיו וְעַמִּי‎ (for כִּמְרִיבֵי וְעַמְּךָ ᵑ0‎).

כמת‎ (√ of following, meaning unknown).