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Word

חָם

châm · H2525 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. warm, hot

    State in which an inanimate object has a relatively high temperature

    Examples

    Joshua 9:12 “This bread of ours was hot when we took it for our provisions from our houses on the day that we left to come to you; but now behold, it is dry and has become crumbled.

    Job 37:17 You whose garments are hot When the land is still because of the south wind?

How it’s used In 1 role

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

2 occurrences in 2 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 4 entries
Relatives001001003012
This code is inherited from the wider homographic cluster on this spelling (which also covers a term for a relative by marriage); the entry's own attested sense, describing bread and garments as physically hot, has no relational content of its own.
Hot002001001034
The word describes literal physical heat, as in Joshua 9:12's bread that was still hot when packed for the journey, and Job 37:17's garments made hot by the south wind.
Names of People003001007
This code is inherited from the shared homograph cluster on this spelling, which also covers the personal name Ham; the entry's own two occurrences describe ordinary physical heat, not a person.
Names of Locations003001010
This code is inherited from the shared homograph cluster on this spelling rather than from this entry's own sense, which describes physical heat and names no place.
Word family 5 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

חָמַם châmam · H2552 · to be warm, to be hot, to become warm · 22×חֹם chôm · H2527 · heat, hot weather · 10×חַמָּן chammân · H2553 · incense altar · 8×חַמָּה chammâh · H2535 · heat, sun · 6×חָםchâm · H2525
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2525. cham III. חָם adjective warm, hot, see below חמם. חֹם see below חמם. חמא (√ of…
H2525. cham
III. חָם adjective warm, hot, see below חמם.
חֹם see below חמם.
חמא (√ of following; compare Arabic be hard, used of curdled milk, Frey).
III. חָם adjective hot; — ח ׳לחם Jos 9:12 hot bread (JE), i.e. freshly baked; חַמִּים בגדים Job 37:17 of garments heated by south wind. — 1. חָם see above. II. חָם see below חמה.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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