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Hebrew wordlink #5567

OSHB Gen 14:10 חֵמָר (ḩēmār) Strongs=2564 Lemma=‘חֵמָר’
contextual word gloss=‘bitumen’ word gloss=‘tar’
Morphology=Ncmsa PoS=common_noun Gender=masculine Number=singular State=absolute
Year=-1913

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Only use of identical word form ‘חֵמָר’ (Morphology=Ncmsa PoS=common_noun Gender=masculine Number=singular State=absolute) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘חֵמָר’ (Morphology=Ncmsa PoS=common_noun Gender=masculine Number=singular State=absolute) is always and only glossed as ‘bitumen’.

Hebrew words (2) other than חֵמָר (Morphology=Ncmsa PoS=common_noun Gender=masculine Number=singular State=absolute) with a gloss related to ‘bitumen’

GEN 11:3 וְהַחֵמָר (vəhaḩēmār) Lemmas=‘וְ’, ‘הַ’, ‘חֵמָר’ word gloss=‘and_the_bitumen’ contextual morpheme glosses=‘and, (the), bitumen’ morpheme glosses=‘and, the, tar’ OSHB GEN 11:3 word 14

OET-LV: 3 And_they _said each to his/its_neighbour come_now let _us _make _bricks bricks and_let _us _burn to_burning and_it _became to/for_them the_brick to_stone and_the_bitumen it _became to/for_them to_mortar. (GEN_11:3)

OET-RV: 3 Then they said to each other, “Come on, let’s make bricks and cure them with fire.” So they had bricks instead of stones, and they had tar for mortar. (GEN 11:3)

EXO 2:3 בַחֵמָר (ⱱaḩēmār) Lemmas=‘בְּ’, ‘חֵמָר’ contextual morpheme glosses=‘with, bitumen’ morpheme glosses=‘in / on / at / with, tar’ OSHB EXO 2:3 word 10

OET-LV: 3 And_not she _was _able still to_hide _him and_she _took to_him/it a _basket _of papyrus and_she_sealed _it with_bitumen and_with_pitch and_she _put in_it DOM the_child and_she _put_it among_rush[es] at the _bank _of the _River. (EXO_2:3)

OET-RV: 3 but then she wasn’t able to hide him any longer. So she got a basket made from woven reeds and plastered it with bitumen and pitch. Then she put the baby in it, and floated the basket in the reeds along the riverbank, (EXO 2:3)