חֵמָר
chemar · bitumen
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2564 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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chemar (חֵמָר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “bitumen”.
Natural asphalt: it was used to bind bricks and to seal.
How to say it
che·mar
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 black, sticky mass from the ground.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Genesis 11:3
They said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly.” And brick served them as stone, and bitumen served them as mortar.
- Genesis 14:10
Now the Valley of Siddim was pit after pit of bitumen; and as they fled, the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fell there, and those who were left fled to the mountains.
- Exodus 2:3
When she could no longer hide him, she took for him an ark of papyrus, coated it with bitumen and with pitch, put the child in it, and set it among the reeds on the bank of the Nile.