חַלָּמוּת
challâmûwth · H2495 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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juice of purslane / mallows, egg-yolk
The juice of a plant, exact meaning uncertain, possibly the thick, slimy and not very tasty juice of purslane or mallow, or on another view the yolk of an egg
ExamplesJob 6:6 Can something tasteless be eaten without salt, Or is there any taste in the juice of an alkanet plant?
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- רִירslime 1
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In the other Testament 1 word
- ὠόν ōón · G5609 · egg, chicken egg
- Direct Greek translation equivalent for 'egg' used in Luke 11:12 in Jesus' teaching about asking for an egg.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Plants001002007001
- The word's referent is debated between the white of an egg and the tasteless juice of the purslane plant; this code reflects the plant-based reading of Job's rhetorical question about tasteless food (Job 6:6).
- Food001003001003
- Whichever substance is meant, the word names something eaten as food, cited as the standard example of blandness without salt (Job 6:6).
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2495. challamuth חַלָּמוּת noun feminine name of a plant, with thick, slimy juice,…
חַלָּמוּת noun feminine name of a plant, with thick, slimy juice, purslain, Job 6:6 RVm, so Thes Rob Ges and others; ᵑ6 , anchusa PSi, 1284; on this, and later interpretations see Bö Di Löwpp. 165, 361; only חַלָּמוּת בְּרִיר אִםיֶֿשׁטַֿעַם Job 6:6 is there any taste in the juice of ׳ח (figurative of insipid and dull discourse); > AV RV Ew Hi SS after ᵑ7 Saad Rabb in the white of an egg **the reference is to Job's sufferings (from which as little joy comes as from eating unsavoury food, so now Comm. Generally), rather than to the unpalatable words of his friends. It is doubtful whether Dillmann's reason for preferring purslain to חֶלְמוֺנָא ᵑ9 yolk of egg (ח ׳רִיר slime of yolk, i.e. the white of the egg) is convincing, namely, that ancient Hebrews did not keep hens, or that of Delitzsch, namely that white of egg is not slime, and is not unpalatable; meaning yolk preferred also by Da Bu Du.
חלמשׁ (quadriliteral √ of following; meaning unknown).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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