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Flint.


1. challamish, 'hard rock,' out of which water was brought. Deut. 8: 15; Ps. 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. Deut. 32: 13.


2. tsor, 'rock.' God made Ezekiel's forehead as an adamant, harder than flint, because of the obduracy of Israel. Ezek. 3: 9. The horses' hoofs of God's executors of judgement shall be like flint. Isa. 5: 28.