Strong's Hebrew: 2003. הֲמָסִים (hemes) -- brushwood

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hemes: brushwood

Original Word: הֲמָסִים
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: hemes
Phonetic Spelling: (haw-mawce')
Short Definition: brushwood

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
of uncertain derivation
Definition
brushwood
NASB Translation
brushwood (1).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[הֶ֫מֶס] noun [masculine] only plural הֲמָסִים brushwood (compare De Che Di RV; some such meaning probably from context) כִּקְדֹהַ אֵשׁ הֲמָסִים Isaiah 64:1 as fire kindleth brushwood (VB).

המר (√ of following; compare Arabic pour, pour out).

Strong's

melting

From an unused root apparently meaning to crackle; a dry twig or brushwood -- melting.