Definition

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

Etymology

from H3648 (כָּמַר);

Where the KJV renders it

• Chemarims (idolatrous) priests

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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