IMMER ĭm’ mər (אִמֵּ֖ר, lamb). 1. A priest, in the time of David, to whom was allotted the sixteenth course in the organization of the priests into twenty-four courses. He thus became the ancestral head of that course and gave his name to an extensive family of descendants (1 Chron 24:14; 9:12). In the chronicles of the returnees from the Exile in Ezra and Nehemiah, the sections that record the priests cite the clan of Immer as the second largest (Ezra 2:37; Neh 7:40).

Hanani and Zebadiah, of the family of Immer, were found guilty of having taken foreign wives. The reform initiated by Ezra at this time required that they divorce the foreign wives and offer a sacrifice for their wrong (Ezra 10:19, 20).

Pashur, a priest in the time of Jeremiah, was of the ancestral line of Immer (Jer 20:1). He is called the son of Immer. The relationship of Immer to Pashur is ancestral rather than paternal, however, and identifies Pashur with the 16th course of priests. His association with Immer also serves to distinguish him from another Pashur (21:1) who was of the fifth course, of which Malchijah (Melchiah) was the ancestral head (1 Chron 24:9).

2. An otherwise unknown Babylonian city from which certain Jewish exiles returned (Ezra 2:59; Neh 7:61).