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חַלָּמוּת noun feminine name of a plant, with thick, slimy juice, purslain, Job 6:6 RVm , so Thes Rob Ges and others; ᵑ6 [untranscribed source text 1774], 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.