omer

Meanings

1. A former small Hebrew unit of dry volume equal to about 2.3 L or 2.1 quarts.
2. A vessel of one omer.
3. The sheaf of barley offered on the second day of Passover.

1. The counting of the omer, that is, the period of 49 days between Passover and Shavuot.

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.
2. Alternative form of omer: the sheaf of barley offered on the second day of Passover.

1. A masculine name included within a Biblical genealogy as a descendant of Esau at Genesis 36:11.

Etymology

From Biblical Hebrew עומר / עֹמֶר ('ómer, “sheaf”).