H2496 H2496
flint; extremely hard stone used figuratively for unyielding firmness
Challamish denotes flint, the hardest common stone known to the ancient world. In Deuteronomy 8:15 God brings water from the 'rock of flint' in the wilderness, an act magnified by the material's notorious impermeability. Isaiah 50:7 applies it as a powerful simile for resolute determination: 'I set my face like flint.' Spanish 'pedernal' and English 'flint' converge on the same mineralogical image, while the German and French translations leave the Hebrew untranslated, underscoring the word's technical specificity.
Senses
1. sense 1 — Flint, flinty rock. A stone of exceptional hardness, used literally for the rock from which God miraculously drew water in the wilderness (Deut 8:15; Ps 114:8) and for rock worked by miners (Job 28:9). In Deuteronomy 32:13 oil flows from flinty rock, hyperbolically. Isaiah 50:7 employs it figuratively for unyielding resolve, reflected consistently across Spanish 'pedernal,' English 'flint,' and the Septuagint's stereological equivalents. 5×
AR["الصَّوَّانِ", "الصَّوّانَة", "فِي-الصَّوّانِ", "كَـ-الصَّوَّانِ", "مِنَ-الصَّوَّانِ"]·ben["-চকমকি-পাথরে", "-চকমকি-পাথরের-মতো", "চকমকি-পাথরকে", "থেকে-চকমকি-পাথরের", "শক্ত-পাথর"]·DE["[בחלמיש]", "[כחלמיש]", "der-flint", "von-flint-von"]·EN["from-flint-of", "like-flint", "on-the-flint", "the-flint"]·FR["[כחלמיש]", "de-flint-de", "le-flint", "silex", "בחלמיש"]·heb["ב-חלמיש", "ה-חלמיש", "חלמיש", "כ-חלמיש", "מ-חלמיש"]·HI["कठोर", "चकमक-की-तरह", "चकमक-को", "चकमक-पत्थर-पर", "चकमक-से"]·ID["batu-keras", "dari-batu", "di-batu-keras", "seperti-batu", "yang-keras"]·IT["[חלמיש]", "[כחלמיש]", "da-flint-di", "il-flint", "nel-su-the-flint"]·jav["Ing-séla-kados-waja", "kados-watu-keras", "saking-séla", "watu-api"]·KO["그-부싯돌의", "부싯돌-을", "부싯돌같이-", "부싯돌에", "에서-부싯돌(접)"]·PT["No-pedernal", "como-pederneira", "de-pederneira-de", "o-pedernal", "pederneira"]·RU["-кремнистой", "в-кремень", "из-кремня", "как-кремень", "кремень"]·ES["En-el-pedernal", "como-pedernal", "de-la-roca-de", "de-pedernal", "el-pedernal"]·SW["Kwa-mwamba-mgumu", "jiwe-gumu", "kama-jiwe-gumu", "kutoka-jiwe-gumu", "wa-jiwe-gumu"]·TR["cakamak-tasi-gibi", "sert", "Çakmaktaşına", "çakmak-taşından-", "çakmaktaşını"]·urd["چقماخ-سے", "چقماق-کو", "چقماک-کی-طرح", "چکمک-پر", "ہ-سخت"]
Related Senses
H3808 1. simple negation (not) (4839×)G1722 1. locative: in, within (2442×)H1004b 1. house, dwelling, building (2015×)G3756 1. not (negation particle) (1635×)H4480a 1. source or separation (1198×)H5892b 1. city, town (1093×)G1519 1. direction: into, to, toward (1061×)H3427 1. Qal: to dwell, inhabit (937×)G1537 1. from, out of (source/origin) (886×)H8034 1. Name (designation / identifier) (856×)G3361 1. subjective negation (not) (834×)G1909 1. on, upon (spatial surface) (757×)H0369 1. existential negation: there is not (738×)H5869a 1. in the eyes/sight of (evaluative) (734×)H5650 1. Servant, attendant, subject (723×)H0408 1. prohibitive negation do-not (712×)G2443 1. so that, in order that (purpose/result) (665×)G0575 1. from (649×)G1223 1. through, by means of (582×)H3541 1. thus, so, in this manner (569×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† חַלָּמִישׁ n.m. flint;—חַלָּמִישׁ Dt 8:15 + 3 times; cstr. חַלְמִישׁ Dt 32:13;—flint צוּר הַח׳ rock of flint = flinty rock, whence water flowed for Isr. in desert Dt 8:15, and (no צור) ψ 114:8; worked by miners Jb 28:9; hyperb. oil out of ח׳ צוּר Dt 32:13 flint of rock = rocky flint (poet.);—in sim. of firmness עַל־כֵּן שַׂמְתִּי פָּנַי כַּחַלָּמִישׁ Is 50:7.