Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H2564
חֵמָר
che.mar · “bitumen”
Used 3 times across 2 books
Definition
slime, pitch, asphalt, bitumen
Where it appears
Genesis2
Exodus1
In the text
Genesis 11:3And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.Genesis 14:10And the vale of Siddim was full of slimepits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain.Exodus 2:3And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink.
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