Bitumen
חֵמָרStrong’s H2564chemar (che-mar)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chemar is the Hebrew word usually translated “bitumen”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.”
Meaning
- Slime, pitch, asphalt, bitumen
How it's translated
- and bitumen 1
- bitumen 1
- with bitumen 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 2
- Exodus 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 14:10And the vale of Siddim was full of slimepits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain.
- Exodus 2:3And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink.
Hebrew dictionary
חֵמָר chemar · bitumen
slime, pitch, asphalt, bitumen
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.