Omer

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A former small Hebrew unit of dry volume equal to about 2.3 L or 2.1 quarts.

   “...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.”

2. isim A vessel of one omer.
3. isim The sheaf of barley offered on the second day of Passover.
4. isim The counting of the omer, that is, the period of 49 days between Passover and Shavuot.
5. isim 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.

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

6. isim Alternative form of omer: the sheaf of barley offered on the second day of Passover.
7. özel isim A masculine name included within a Biblical genealogy as a descendant of Esau at Genesis 36:11.