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Strong's #3649: kamar (pronounced kaw-mawr')

from 3648; properly, an ascetic (as if shrunk with self-maceration), i.e. an idolatrous priest (only in plural):--Chemarims (idolatrous) priests.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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kâmâr

1) priest, idolatrous priest

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from H3648



Usage:

This word is used 3 times:

2 Kings 23:5: "And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense"
Hosea 10:5: "the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory"
Zephaniah 1:4: "place, and the name of the Chemarims with the priests;"









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