omer

Definitions

1. The 49-day period from the second day of Passover to Shavuot, begun and ended with an offering of a sheaf of barley and noted nightly during evening prayer.
   Judaism, uncountable, usually
2. A masculine name included within a Biblical genealogy as a descendant of Esau at Genesis 36:11.
3. A former small Hebrew unit of dry volume equal to about 2.3 L or 2.1 quarts.
   historical
4. The counting of the omer, that is, the period of 49 days between Passover and Shavuot.
   Judaism, uncountable
5. A vessel of one omer.
6. The sheaf of barley offered on the second day of Passover.
   Judaism

Equivalents

Examples

“...that Omer which was every mans daily portion of Manna, is computed to have⟳ bin more then might have⟳ well suffic'd the heartiest feeder thrice as many meals.”

“And it came to pass⟳, that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one man: and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.”

“The counting of the Omer—the Sefiras HaOmer—is a mitzvah.”

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