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חֵמֶת

che.met

bottle

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Strong’s H2573Noun, masculine3 times in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

skin2

a skin of1

In the text

Genesis 21:14וְחֵמַת
Early in the morning, Abraham got up, took bread and a skin of water, put them on Hagar’s shoulders, and sent her away with the boy. She left and wandered in the Wilderness of Beersheba.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

חֵ֫מֶת, חֶ֑מֶת n.[m.] waterskin

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.