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# חַלָּמִישׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2496

**flint** — used 5 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

flint [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2496/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חַלָּמִישׁ: n.m. flint [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2496/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. flint;—חַלָּמִישׁ Dt 8:15 + 3 times; cstr. חַלְמִישׁ Dt 32:13;—flint צוּר הַח׳ rock of flint = flinty rock, whence water flowed for Isr. in desert Dt 8:15, and (no צור) ψ 114:8; worked by miners Jb 28:9; hyperb. oil out of ח׳ צוּר Dt 32:13 flint of rock = rocky flint (poet.);—in sim. of firmness עַל־כֵּן שַׂמְתִּי פָּנַי כַּחַלָּמִישׁ Is 50:7.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: flint (5).

## In the verses

[Job 28:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.28.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.28.9/#tree)

בַּֽ֭חַלָּמִישׁ שָׁלַ֣ח יָד֑וֹ הָפַ֖ךְ מִשֹּׁ֣רֶשׁ הָרִֽים׃

*Word for word:* on the flint he.stretches.out hand his he.overturns from.\[the\] root mountains

*JPS 1917:* He putteth forth his hand upon the flinty rock; He overturneth the mountains by the roots.

[Psalms 114:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.114.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.114.8/#tree)

הַהֹפְכִ֣י הַצּ֣וּר אֲגַם־מָ֑יִם חַ֝לָּמִ֗ישׁ לְמַעְיְנוֹ־מָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* \[who\] turned the rock a.pool of.water flint into a spring of.water

*JPS 1917:* Who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a fountain of waters.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2496.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2496/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).