Hebrew noun (masculine) · H2564
חֵמָר
chemarkhay-mawr'
bitumen
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: chêmâr
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2564is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2564
bitumen (as rising to the surface)
The King James renders it: slime(-pit).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
chemar is rendered "bitumen". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Two of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 11:3And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar.
Genesis 11:3וְהַ֣חֵמָ֔ר
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and the bitumen1
- bitumen1
- with the bitumen1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| חֵמָה | chemah | rage | Uses125 |
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- בַחֵמָ֖ר1
- וְהַ֣חֵמָ֔ר1
- חֵמָ֔ר1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Td/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular1HNcmsa
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular1HRd/Ncmsa
Genesis
two uses
And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar.
- וְהַ֣חֵמָ֔רvehachemarconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the bitumen
Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits, and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some men fell into the pits, but the survivors fled to the hill country.
- חֵמָ֔רchemarnoun · masculine singulartagged: bitumen
Exodus
one use
But when she could no longer hide him, she got him a papyrus basket and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in the basket and set it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.
- בַחֵמָ֖רvachemarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: with the bitumen
Where it leads
On this page
Studies1
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.