STRONGS NUMBER H2496


Word Summary
challamish: flint
Original Word: חַלָּמִישׁ
Transliteration: challamish
Phonetic Spelling: (klal-law-meesh')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: flint
Meaning: flint
Strong's Concordance
flinty, rock

Probably from chalam (in the sense of hardness); flint -- flint(-y), rock.

see HEBREW chalam

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H2496. challamish

חַלָּמִישׁnoun masculine flint; — חַלָּמִישׁDeuteronomy 8:15 3t.; construct חַלְמִישׁ32:13; — flint הַח ׳צוּרrock of flint = flinty rock, whence water flowed for Israel in desert 8:15, and (no צור‎) Psalm 114:8; worked by miners Job 28:9; hyperb. oil out of ׳ח צוּרDeuteronomy 32:13 flint of rock = rocky flint (poetry); — in simile of firmness כַּחַלָּמִישׁ מָּנַי שַׂמְתִּי עַלכֵּֿןIsaiah 50:7.

חֹלוֺן חֵלֹן,‎ see below I. and II. חוֺל‎.