Strong's Concordance challamuth: (a plant), probably a purslane Original Word: חַלָּמוּתPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: challamuth Phonetic Spelling: (khal-law-mooth') Definition: (a plant), probably a purslane NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom chalam Definition (a plant), probably a purslane NASB Translation white of an egg (1). Brown-Driver-Briggs חַלָּמוּת noun feminine name 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 חַלָּמוּת Job 6:6 is 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 ᵑ9 חֶלְמוֺנָא yolk of egg (׳רִיר ח slime 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). Strong's Exhaustive Concordance egg From chalam (in the sense of insipidity); probably purslain -- egg. see HEBREW chalam Forms and Transliterations חַלָּמֽוּת׃ חלמות׃ challaMut ḥal·lā·mūṯ ḥallāmūṯLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel TextsEnglishman's Concordance Job 6:6 HEB: טַ֝֗עַם בְּרִ֣יר חַלָּמֽוּת׃ NAS: taste in the white of an egg? KJV: [any] taste in the white of an egg? INT: taste the white the white 1 Occurrence |