Easton's Bible Dictionary Abounds in all the plains and valleys of the wilderness of the forty years' wanderings. In Isaiah 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 (Isaiah 5:28). Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) A massive, somewhat impure variety of quartz, in color usually of a gray to brown or nearly black, breaking with a conchoidal fracture and sharp edge. It is very hard, and strikes fire with steel. 2. (n.) A piece of flint for striking fire; -- formerly much used, esp. in the hammers of gun locks. 3. (n.) Anything extremely hard, unimpressible, and unyielding, like flint. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia FLINT flint (challamish (Deuteronomy 8:15; Deuteronomy 32:13 Job 28:9 Psalm 114:8), tsor (Exodus 4:25 Ezekiel 3:9), tser (Isaiah 5:28), tsur (Job 22:24 Psalm 89:43), tsurim (Joshua 5:2 f); (= kechlex "pebble"), kochlax (APC 1Macc 10:73)): The word challamish signifies a hard stone, though not certainly flint, and is used as a figure for hardness in Isaiah 50:7, "Therefore have I set my face like a flint." A similar use of tsor is found in Ezekiel 3:9, "As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead," and Isaiah 5:28, "Their horses' hoofs shall be accounted as flint"; and of tsela` in Jeremiah 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: challamish (Deuteronomy 8:15 Psalm 114:8); tsur (Exodus 17:6 Deuteronomy 8:15 Psalm 78:20 Isaiah 48:21); cela` (Numbers 20:8 Nehemiah 9:15 Psalm 78:16). Tsur and cela` are used oftener than challamish for great rocks and cliffs, but tsur is used also for flint knives in Exodus 4:25, "Then Zipporah took a flint (the King James Version "sharp stone"), and cut off the foreskin of her son," and in Joshua 5:2, "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. Alfred Ely Day

Multi-Version Concordance Flint (12 Occurrences) Exodus 4:25 Then Zipporah took a flint, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet; and she said, "Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me." (WEB JPS ASV YLT NAS RSV NIV) Deuteronomy 8:15 who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, in which were fiery serpents and scorpions, and thirsty ground where there was no water; who brought you forth water out of the rock of flint; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV) Deuteronomy 32:13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth. He ate the increase of the field. He caused him to suck honey out of the rock, oil out of the flinty rock; (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV) Joshua 5:2 At that time, Yahweh said to Joshua, "Make flint knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time." (WEB JPS ASV YLT NAS RSV NIV) Joshua 5:3 Joshua made himself flint knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins. (WEB JPS YLT NAS RSV NIV) Job 28:9 He puts forth his hand on the flinty rock, and he overturns the mountains by the roots. (Root in WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV) Psalms 114:8 who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a spring of waters. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV) Isaiah 5:28 whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent. Their horses' hoofs will be like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV) Isaiah 50:7 For the Lord Yahweh will help me; therefore I have not been confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be disappointed. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV) Jeremiah 17:1 The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of your altars; (See NIV) Ezekiel 3:9 As an adamant harder than flint have I made your forehead: don't be afraid of them, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV) Zechariah 7:12 Yes, they made their hearts as hard as flint, lest they might hear the law, and the words which Yahweh of Armies had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from Yahweh of Armies. (WEB NAS NIV)