Lexicon challamish: flint Original Word: חַלָּמִישׁPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: challamish Phonetic Spelling: (klal-law-meesh') Short Definition: flint NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof uncertain derivation Definitionflint NASB Translationflint (4), flinty (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs חַלָּמִישׁ noun masculine flint; — חַלָּמִישׁ Deuteronomy 8:15 3t.; construct חַלְמִישׁ Deuteronomy 32:13; — flint ׳צוּר הַח rock of flint = flinty rock, whence water flowed for Israel in desert Deuteronomy 8:15, and (no צור) Psalm 114:8; worked by miners Job 28:9; hyperb. oil out of צוּר ׳ח Deuteronomy 32:13 flint of rock = rocky flint (poetry); — in simile of firmness עַלכֵּֿן שַׂמְתִּי מָּנַי כַּחַלָּמִישׁ Isaiah 50:7. חֵלֹן, חֹלוֺן see below I. and II. חוֺל.
Strong's flinty, rock Probably from chalam (in the sense of hardness); flint -- flint(-y), rock. see HEBREW chalam |
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