Chêmâr — H2564

Definition

masculine noun

bitumen (as rising to the surface)

1. slime, pitch, asphalt, bitumen

Usually translated as

slime, slimepit

Origin

from H2560

• Derived from Châmar (H2560)

Occurrences

Chêmâr occurs 3 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (2), Exodus (1)

• Genesis 11:3 — And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime (וְהַ֣חֵמָ֔ר) had they for morter.
• Genesis 14:10 — And the vale of Siddim was full of slimepits (חֵמָ֔ר); and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain.
• Exodus 2:3 — And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime (בַחֵמָ֖ר) and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink.