H2564 חֵמָר

Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 2 KJV occurrences

חֵמָר

chêmâr · khay-mawr'

Definition

bitumen (as rising to the surface)

KJV Renderings

slime(-pit).

Derivation / Etymology

from H2560 (חָמַר);

KJV Verses (2)

Genesis 11:3And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
Exodus 2:3And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink.