Lexical Summary challamish: flint Original Word: חַלָּמִישׁTransliteration: challamish Phonetic Spelling: (klal-law-meesh') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: flint Meaning: flint Strong's Concordance flinty, rock Probably from chalam (in the sense of hardness); flint -- flint(-y), rock. see HEBREW chalam Brown-Driver-Briggs H2496. challamish חַלָּמִישׁ noun masculine flint; — חַלָּמִישׁ Deuteronomy 8:15 3t.; construct חַלְמִישׁ 32:13; — flint הַח ׳צוּר rock of flint = flinty rock, whence water flowed for Israel in desert 8:15, and (no צור) Psalm 114:8; worked by miners Job 28:9; hyperb. oil out of ׳ח צוּר Deuteronomy 32:13 flint of rock = rocky flint (poetry); — in simile of firmness כַּחַלָּמִישׁ מָּנַי שַׂמְתִּי עַלכֵּֿן Isaiah 50:7. חֹלוֺן חֵלֹן, see below I. and II. חוֺל. |
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