Lexical Definition

‎כָּמָר‎ kâmâr (kaw-mawr') pagan priest ^H:N-M
from ‎כָּמַר‎

Chemarims (idolatrous) priests.

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

1) priest, idolatrous priest

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 2Kgs 23:5, ‎כְּמָרָיו‎ Hos 10:5, ‎עִםהַֿכֹּהֲנִים‎ ‎׳‎‎הַכּ‎ Zeph 1:4. In Hos 4:4 Beck (in Wü¹⁴²) We proposes ‎וְעַמִּי כִּכְמָרָיו‎ (for ᵑ0 ‎וְעַמְּךָ כִּמְרִיבֵי‎).

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