# חֵמָר (chemar)

Israeli respelling: che-mar. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H2564. 3 Old Testament occurrences.

bitumen (as rising to the surface)

King James renderings: slime(-pit).

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/chemar-h2564

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 11:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/11/3) — And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mort…
- [Genesis 14:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/14/10) — And the vale of Siddim was full of slimepits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the…
- [Exodus 2:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 th…