חַלָּמִישׁ
chalamish · flint
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2496 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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chalamish (חַלָּמִישׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “flint”.
A very hard stone.
How to say it
cha·la·mish
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Very hard stone.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Where it appears
- Deuteronomy 8:15
who led you through the great and fearsome wilderness, with burning serpent and scorpion, and parched ground where there was no water, who brought out for you water from the rock of flint,
- Deuteronomy 32:13
He made him ride on the high places of the earth, and he ate the produce of the field; he made him suck honey from the crag and oil from the flint of the rock,
- Job 28:9
Against the flint he puts forth his hand; he overturns the mountains from the root.
- Psalms 114:8
who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a spring of water.
- Isaiah 50:7
But Adonai YHWH helps me; therefore I have not been humiliated; therefore I have set my face like flint, and I know that I will not be ashamed.