Lexical Summary challamuth: (a plant), probably a purslane Original Word: חַלָּמוּתTransliteration: challamuth Phonetic Spelling: (khal-law-mooth') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: (a plant), probably a purslane Meaning: (a plant), probably a purslane Strong's Concordance egg From chalam (in the sense of insipidity); probably purslain -- egg. see HEBREW chalam Brown-Driver-Briggs H2495. challamuth חַלָּמוּת noun feminine name of a plant, with thick, slimy juice, purslain, Job 6:6 RVm, so Thes Rob Ges and others; ᵑ6 , anchusa PSi, 1284; on this, and later interpretations see Bö Di Löwpp. 165, 361; only חַלָּמוּת בְּרִיר אִםיֶֿשׁטַֿעַם 6:6 is there any taste in the juice of ׳ח (figurative of insipid and dull discourse); > AV RV Ew Hi SS after ᵑ7 Saad Rabb in the white of an egg **the reference is to Job's sufferings (from which as little joy comes as from eating unsavoury food, so now Comm. Generally), rather than to the unpalatable words of his friends. It is doubtful whether Dillmann's reason for preferring purslain to חֶלְמוֺנָא ᵑ9 yolk of egg (ח ׳רִיר slime of yolk, i.e. the white of the egg) is convincing, namely, that ancient Hebrews did not keep hens, or that of Delitzsch, namely that white of egg is not slime, and is not unpalatable; meaning yolk preferred also by Da Bu Du. חלמשׁ (quadriliteral √ of following; meaning unknown). |
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