Flint
חַלָּמִישׁStrong’s H2496challamish (chal-la-mish)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Challamish is the Hebrew word usually translated “flint”, “from flint of” and “on the flint”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;”
Meaning
- Flint, rock
How it's translated
- flint 2
- from flint of 1
- on the flint 1
- like flint 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 2
- Job 1
- Psalms 1
- Isaiah 1
4 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 32:13He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;
- Job 28:9He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots.
- Psalms 114:8Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.
- Isaiah 50:7For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.
Hebrew dictionary
חַלָּמִישׁ challamish · flint
flint, rock
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “flint” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FLINT, noun
- In natural history, a sub-species of quartz, of a yellowish or bluish gray, or grayish black color.
- A piece of the above described stone used in firearms to strike fire.
- Any thing proverbially hard; as a heart of flint
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.