Genesis 14:10:5Gen.14.10.W5TAB

חֵמָ֔ר

khemar

bitumen

Transliteration
khe-MAR
Extended
kheh-MAAR
IPA
/ħeː.ˈmaːr/

Meaning by language

English
bitumen

Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it

Result
חֵ + מָ֔ר
khe + mar
khemar

Alphabet Analysis

Chetch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch
Tserelong 'ey' as in they
Memm as in mother
Qametslong 'ah'
Reshr guttural, like the French r

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Word in context

  1. word

    khe-MAR

  2. clause

    ve-E-mek ha-si-DIM be-e-ROT be-e-ROT khe-MAR va-ya-NU-su me-lekh-se-DOM va-a-mo-RA va-yip-lu-SHA-ma

  3. sentence

    ve-E-mek ha-si-DIM be-e-ROT be-e-ROT khe-MAR va-ya-NU-su me-lekh-se-DOM va-a-mo-RA va-yip-lu-SHA-ma ve-ha-nish-a-REEM HE-ra na-SU

Exegesis

The phrase beerot beerot chemar {בּֽ͏ֶאֱרֹ֤ת בֶּאֱרֹת֙ חֵמָ֔ר | bə-ʾĕ-rōṯ bə-ʾĕ-rōṯ ḥē-mār} ‘pits, pits of bitumen’ uses repetition for intensification, portraying hazardous terrain. A nominal clause lacking a verb in Hebrew is rendered with “had” or “was filled with” in English to convey the descriptive sense.

Root and etymology

ח־מ־ר

to be sticky, smear

In contextGenesis 14:10

Now the valley of Siddim had many pits of bitumen; when the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some fell in there, and the rest fled to the hill country.

About this coordinate

Genesis 14:10:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Genesis 14:10, so the Hebrew word חֵמָ֔ר (khemar) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written Gen.14.10.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.14.10.W5.S1) and character.