Lexical Definition

‎חֵמָר‎ chêmâr (khay-mawr') bitumen ^H:N-M
from ‎חָמַר‎

slime(-pit).

• bitumen (as rising to the surface)

1) slime, pitch, asphalt, bitumen

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎חֵמָר‎ noun [masculine] bitumen, asphalt (from I. ‎חמר‎ according to OBlau^{ZMG 1869, 279, bitumen as} seething, swelling up; Thes MV, from IV. ‎חמר‎, with reference to reddish-brown colour) — ‎חֵמָר‎ Gen 11:3 + 2 t.; used for cement in building Babel Gen 11:3 (J); abounding in vale of Siddim ‎׳‎‎בֶּאֱרֹת בֶּאֱרֹת ח‎ Gen 14:10 used in coating Moses' 'ark' of bulrushes Exod 2:3 (E; || ‎זָ֑פֶת‎).

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