חֵמֶת
chemet · skin bottle
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2573 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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chemet (חֵמֶת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “skin bottle”.
A leather bag for carrying water.
How to say it
che·met
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
- A leather bag for water.
- Anger that burns and is poured out on another.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- skin ×3
- fury ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Genesis 21:14
Abraham rose early in the morning, took bread and a skin of water, and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder, and also the child, and sent her away. She went and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
- Genesis 21:15
When the water in the skin was used up, she threw the child under one of the bushes.
- Genesis 21:19
Then Elohim opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went and filled the skin with water and gave a drink to the boy.
- Habakkuk 2:15
Woe to the one who gives his neighbor drink, mixing in your fury, and even making him drunk, in order to look on their nakedness!