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# חֵמֶת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2573

**waterskin** — used 3 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

waterskin [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2573/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֵ֫מֶת: waterskin [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2573/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] waterskin (NH id.) —הַחֶ֑מֶת Gn 21:15; הַחֵ֫מֶת Gn 21:19; וְחֵ֨מַת מַ֜יִם Gn 21:14 (v. Di), \[Hb 2:15 חֲמָתְךָ v. חֵמָה\].

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: skin (2); a skin (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 21:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.21.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.21.15/#tree)

וַיִּכְל֥וּ הַמַּ֖יִם מִן־הַחֵ֑מֶת וַתַּשְׁלֵ֣ךְ אֶת־הַיֶּ֔לֶד תַּ֖חַת אַחַ֥ד הַשִּׂיחִֽם׃

*Word for word:* and they.were.finished the water(s) from the skin and she.threw (et) the boy under one of the.bushes

*JPS 1917:* And the water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.

[Genesis 21:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.21.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.21.19/#tree)

וַיִּפְקַ֤ח אֱלֹהִים֙ אֶת־עֵינֶ֔יהָ וַתֵּ֖רֶא בְּאֵ֣ר מָ֑יִם וַתֵּ֜לֶךְ וַתְּמַלֵּ֤א אֶת־הַחֵ֙מֶת֙ מַ֔יִם וַתַּ֖שְׁקְ אֶת־הַנָּֽעַר׃

*Word for word:* and he.opened God (et) eyes her and she.saw a.well of.water and she.went and she.filled (et) the skin water and she.gave.a.drink.to (et) the lad

*JPS 1917:* And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2573/): 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).