hebrew #2495 - חַלָּמוּת challamuth ((a plant))
Strong's Exhaustive ConcordanceEnglishman's Concordance 1) purslane, a tasteless plant with thick slimy juice Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from H2492 (in the sense of insipidity) Same Word by TWOT Number: 664 Brown-Driver-Briggsחַלָּמוּתnoun femininename of a plant, with thick, slimy juice, purslain, Job 6:6 RVm, so Thes Rob Ges and others; ᵑ6  , anchusa PSi, 1284; on this, and later interpretations see Bö Di Löwpp. 165, 361; only אִםיֶֿשׁטַֿעַם בְּרִיר חַלָּמוּתJob 6:6is there any taste in the juice of׳ח (figurative of insipid and dull discourse); > AV RV Ew Hi SS after ᵑ7 Saad Rabb in the white of an egg**the reference is to Job's sufferings (from which as little joy comes as from eating unsavoury food, so now Comm. Generally), rather than to the unpalatable words of his friends. It is doubtful whether Dillmann's reason for preferring purslain to ᵑ9חֶלְמוֺנָאyolk of egg (׳רִיר חslime of yolk, i.e. the white of the egg) is convincing, namely, that ancient Hebrews did not keep hens, or that of Delitzsch, namely that white of egg is not slime, and is not unpalatable; meaning yolk preferred also by Da Bu Du. חלמשׁ (quadriliteral √ of following; meaning unknown). Englishman's Concordance (References) |