H2564: חֵמָר
chêmâr · pronounced khay-mawr' · “bitumen”
Definition
bitumen (as rising to the surface)
KJV translates it as: slime(-pit).
Word origin: from H2560 (חָמַר);
Extended definition
slime, pitch, asphalt, bitumen
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H2564 is translated
- bitumen ×3
Bible verses with H2564 (chêmâr)
Chêmâr appears in 3 verses.
- Genesis 11:3
And 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 14:10
And 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 2:3
And 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.