Strong H2496חַלָּמִישׁ

flint

Transliteration
challâmîysh
Pronunciation
khal-law-meesh'
Morphology
Hebrew Noun (Masculine)

Definition

Probably from H2492 (in the sense of hardness); flint: - flint ({-y}) rock.

Detailed definition

flint, rock

In the Bible

Strong H2496 appears in 5 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • flint3
  • flinty1
  • rock1

First verses

  1. Deuteronomy 8:15
    Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;
  2. Deuteronomy 32:13
    He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;
  3. Job 28:9
    He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots.
  4. Psalms 114:8
    Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.
  5. Isaiah 50:7
    For the Lord God will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.
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