Word

חַלָּמִישׁ

challâmîysh · H2496 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences

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Meanings

flint

Hard stone; consisting of nearly pure silica; symbol of a strong will-power

Examples
Deuteronomy 8:15 He who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions, and its thirsty ground where there was no water; He who brought water for you out of the rock of flint.
Deuteronomy 32:13 “He had him ride on the high places of the earth, And he ate the produce of the field; And He had him suck honey from the rock, And oil from the flinty rock,
Job 28:9 “He puts his hand on the flint; He overturns the mountains at the base.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

צוּרrock 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

3 occurrences in 3 groups

בin/on/with 2
כlike/as 2
מִןfrom 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

צוּרrock 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Near synonyms 2 words

צֹר tsôr · H6864 · flint, flint (knife): Both lexemes denote flint or sharp stone, two distinct Hebrew words for the same hard material used for cutting tools.
צוּר tsûwr · H6697 · rock: חַלָּמִישׁ (challâmîysh, H2496) is specifically "flint," a type of rock, while צוּר (tsûwr, H6697) is a broader "rock/stone" term (also used metaphorically for God, strength, etc.); these are a specific type-of-rock term and a general rock term that overlap in the stone or rock sense.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Stone001002005016: The noun names hard flint rock, as water is brought forth from "the rock of flint" for Israel in the wilderness (Deuteronomy 8:15; Psalm 114:8).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2496. challamish חַלָּמִישׁ noun masculine flint; — חַלָּמִישׁ Deu 8:15 Deu 8:3t.;…

H2496. challamish
חַלָּמִישׁ noun masculine flint; — חַלָּמִישׁ Deu 8:15 Deu 8:3t.; construct חַלְמִישׁ Deu 32:13; — flint הַח ׳צוּר rock of flint = flinty rock, whence water flowed for Israel in desert Deu 8:15, and (no צור) Psa 114:8; worked by miners Job 28:9; hyperb. oil out of ׳ח צוּר Deu 32:13 flint of rock = rocky flint (poetry); — in simile of firmness כַּחַלָּמִישׁ מָּנַי שַׂמְתִּי עַלכֵּֿן Isa 50:7.
חֹלוֺן חֵלֹן, see below I. and II. חוֺל.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Stone5 occurrences

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

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0