Flint
Flint
(, challassish’, from its smoothness, Psa 104:8; Isa 50:7; “rock,” Job 28:9; frequently with the accompaniment , a rock, Deu 8:15; Deu 32:13; once for itself, Eze 3:9; “sharp stone,” Exo 4:25), ‘any hard stone, especially of a silicious character, as quartz or granite; but in mineralogical science it is applied only to silicious nodules. In the three passages first cited above the reference is to God’s bringing water and oil out of the naturally barren rocks of the wilderness for the sake of his people. In Isaiah the word is used metaphorically to signify the firmness of the prophet is resistance to his persecutors. So also in, Isa 5:28 we have like flsnt, in reference to the hoofs of horses. In 1 Mace. 10:73, is translated flint, and in Wis 11:4 the expression is adopted from Deu 8:15 (Sept.). SEE ROCK. ‘Flints abound in nearly’ all the plains and valleys through which the Hebrews marched during thee forty years of wandering.’ In the northward desert, low hills’ of chalk occur, as well as frequent tracts of chalky soil, for the most part overspread with flints. In the western desert Burckheardt saw some large pieces of flint perfectly oval three to four feet in length, and about a foot and a half in breadth. This desert presents to the traveller’s view its immense expanse of dreary country, covered with black flints, with here and there some hilly chains rising fromthe plain. SEE DESERT.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Flint
abounds in all the plains and valleys of the wilderness of the forty years’ wanderings. In Isa. 50:7 and Ezek. 3:9 the expressions, where the word is used, means that the “Messiah would be firm and resolute amidst all contempt and scorn which he would meet; that he had made up his mind to endure it, and would not shrink from any kind or degree of suffering which would be necessary to accomplish the great work in which he was engaged.” (Comp. Ezek. 3:8, 9.) The words “like a flint” are used with reference to the hoofs of horses (Isa. 5:28).
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Flint
FLINT.See Mining and Metals.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Flint
flint (, hallamsh (Deu 8:15; Deu 32:13; Job 28:9; Psa 114:8), , cor (Exo 4:25; Eze 3:9), , cer (Isa 5:28), , cur (Job 22:24; Psa 89:43), , curm (Jos 5:2 f); (= , kachlex pebble), kochlax (1 Macc 10:73)): The word hallamsh signifies a hard stone, though not certainly flint, and is used as a figure for hardness in Isa 50:7, Therefore have I set my face like a flint. A similar use of cor is found in Eze 3:9, As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead, and Isa 5:28, Their horses’ hoofs shall be accounted as flint; and of sela in Jer 5:3, They have made their faces harder than a rock. The same three words are used of the rock from which Moses drew water in the wilderness: hallamsh (Deu 8:15; Psa 114:8); cur (Exo 17:6; Deu 8:15; Psa 78:20; Isa 48:21); sela (Num 20:8; Neh 9:15; Psa 78:16). Cur and sela are used oftener than hallamsh for great rocks and cliffs, but cur is used also for flint knives in Exo 4:25, Then Zipporah took a flint (the King James Version sharp stone), and cut off the foreskin of her son, and in Jos 5:2 f, Yahweh said unto Joshua, Make thee knives of flint (the King James Version sharp knives), and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time. Surgical implements of flint were used by the ancient Egyptians, and numerous flint chippings with occasional flint implements are found associated with the remains of early man in Syria and Palestine. Flint and the allied mineral, chert, are found in great abundance in the limestone rocks of Syria, Palestine and Egypt. See ROCK.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Flint
1. challamish , ‘hard rock,’ out of which water was brought. Deu 8:15; Psa 114:8. Christ, because of His opposers, set His face like a flint, and He knew He should not be ashamed. Isa 50:7. God made Jacob to suck oil out of the flinty rock. Deu 32:13.
2. tsor, ‘rock.’ God made Ezekiel’s forehead as an adamant, harder than flint, because of the obduracy of Israel. Eze 3:9. The horses’ hoofs of God’s executors of judgement shall be like flint. Isa 5:28.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Flint
Deu 8:15; Deu 32:13; Psa 114:8; Isa 50:7; Eze 3:9
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Flint
Flint. A well-known stone, a variety of quartz. It is extremely hard, and strikes fire. It was very abundant in and about Palestine.
Fuente: Smith’s Bible Dictionary
FLINT
Isa 5:28; Isa 50:7; Eze 3:9
Fuente: Thompson Chain-Reference Bible
Flint
Deu 8:15 (b) The flint rock is probably the hardest of all the rocks. By this picture the Lord is telling us that He is able to bring great blessing to us out of impossible situations. He often brings deliverance from sources that we never thought of. He is able to use strange circumstances and unknown assets to bring to us the relief that we need. (See Deu 32:13; Psa 114:8).
Isa 50:7 (a) By this term the Lord is telling us of His determination to go to the limit for our salvation and our blessing. Nothing would swerve Him from this purpose.