Strong's Hebrew · H2564
חֵמָר
chêmâr · khay-mawr'
Definitionbitumen (as rising to the surface)
Derivationfrom H2560 (חָמַר);
KJV usageslime(-pit).
Occurrences3 in the KJV · 3 verses
חֵמָר in Scripture
Genesis 11:3
And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
Genesis 14:10
And the vale of Siddim was full of slime pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain.
Exodus 2:3
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.