2564. chemar
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chemar: bitumen, asphalt
Original Word: חֵמָר
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: chemar
Phonetic Spelling: (khay-mawr')
Short Definition: tar

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from chamar
Definition
bitumen, asphalt
NASB Translation
tar (3).

Brown-Driver-Briggs
חֵמָר noun [masculine] bitumen, asphalt (from I. חמר according to OBlauZMG 1869, 279, bitumen as seething, swelling up; Thes MV, from IV. חמר, with reference to reddish-brown colour) — חֵמָר Genesis 11:3 2t.; used for cement in building Babel Genesis 11:3 (J); abounding in vale of Siddim ׳בֶּאֱרֹת בֶּאֱרֹת ח Genesis 14:10; used in coating Moses' 'ark' of bulrushes Exodus 2:3 (E; "" זָ֑פֶת).



Strong's
slimepit

From chamar; bitumen (as rising to the surface) -- slime(-pit).

see HEBREW chamar

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