Strong H2564חֵמָר
bitumen
- Transliteration
- chêmâr
- Pronunciation
- khay-mawr'
- Morphology
- Hebrew Noun (Masculine)
Definition
From H2560; bitumen (as rising to the surface): - slime (-pit).
Detailed definition
slime, pitch, asphalt, bitumen
In the Bible
Strong H2564 appears in 3 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- slime2
- slimepits1
First verses
- 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.