חֵמָר
chêmâr(khay-mawr')
“bitumen (as rising to the surface)”
2 occurrencesOld TestamentRare Word
Definition
Strong’s Definition
bitumen (as rising to the surface)
Translated in KJV as
slime(-pit).
Etymology
from H2560 (חָמַר);
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“And 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.”