Bottle
חֵ֫מֶתStrong’s H2573chemet (che-met)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chemet is the Hebrew word usually translated “skin” and “skin of”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.”
Meaning
- Bottle, waterskin
How it's translated
- the skin 2
- and a skin of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 3
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
חֵ֫מֶת chemet · bottle
bottle, waterskin
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “bottle” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BOT'TLE, noun
- A hollow vessel of glass, wood, leather or other material, with a narrow mouth, for holding and carrying liquors.
- The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains; but from the size of bottles used for wine, porter and cyder, a bottle is nearly a quart; as a bottle of wine or a porter.
- A quantity of hay in a bundle; a bundle of hay.
All definitions and other forms of “bottle”
BOT'TLE, verb transitive
To put into bottles; as, to bottle wine or porter. This includes the stopping of the bottles with corks.
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.