Sentence examples for omer from inspiring English sources
noun
A dry measure of ancient Israel, one tenth of an ephah.
Estimated at 37 litres (about 6.5 gallons) and approximately equivalent to the Greek metrētēs, the bat contained 10 omers, 1 omer being the quantity (based on tradition) of manna allotted to each Israelite for every day of the 40-year sojourn in the desert recorded in the Bible.
The advantage of taking your car over, apart from the obvious benefits of boot space for bulk buying, is that you can visit Arras, or St Omer or Abbeville.
Photograph: Omer Messinger /NurPhot/Corbis Palestinians pray over the bodies of 17 members of the Abu Jamea family, killed by an Israeli strike at their house, during their funeral at the main mosque in Khan Younis.
Turkey was just starting to emerge from a "lost decade" in the 1990s, marked by "civil war, secular-Islamic polarisation, authoritarian proclivities, economic crisis and systemic corruption", in the words of Omer Taspinar, co-director of the Turkey programme at the Brookings Institution, an American think-tank.
"Most Turks see Ralston as window-dressing, as an attempt to buy time," says Omer Taspinar, of the Brookings Institution.
It is this uprising that will be preying on Mr Bashir's mind today.Last year I sat down for a chat with the man who inadvertently became the leader of that revolt, an amiable and mild-mannered lawyer called Omer Abdel Ati.
On the day of Lag ba-Omer, Orthodox Jews by the thousands make a joyous pilgrimage to Rabbi Simeon's tomb; the festivities there last all night.
Hebrew: We-omer ‛atah bi-klal ki ha-guph yitna‛e tenu‛ah keliit ki be-maqom she-tihyeh ha-hatḥalah sham gam ken tihyeh ha-‛amidah, kemo ha-tenu‛ah ha-kilulit.
Caves de Vieus Chais, 1 Place Pierre Bonhomme, 62500 Saint-Omer (+21 12 59 03).
After about 1050, townspeople, especially merchants, sought to free themselves from the arbitrary lordship of counts and bishops, usually peaceably, as at Saint-Omer, but occasionally in violent uprisings, as at Le Mans and Laon.
His first major work was Histoire de la ville de Saint-Omer et de ses institutions jusqu'au XIVe siècle (1877).
