Word

חֹם

chôm · H2527 · Hebrew · 10 occurrences

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Meanings

heat

State in which an inanimate object has a relatively high temperature

Examples
1 Samuel 11:9 They said to the messengers who had come, “This is what you shall say to the men of Jabesh-gilead: ‘Tomorrow, by the time the sun is hot, you will be saved.’” So the messengers went and told the men of Jabesh; and they rejoiced.
1 Samuel 21:6 So the priest gave him consecrated bread; for there was no bread there except the bread of the Presence which was removed from its place before the LORD, in order to put hot bread in its place on the day it was taken away.
heat, hot weather

State in which the atmosphere has a relatively high temperature

Examples
Genesis 8:22 “While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, Cold and heat, Summer and winter, And day and night Shall not cease.”
Genesis 18:1 Now the LORD appeared to Abraham by the oaks of Mamre, while he was sitting at the tent door in the heat of the day.
1 Samuel 11:11 The next morning Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the midst of the camp at the morning watch, and struck and killed the Ammonites until the heat of the day. And those who survived scattered, so that no two of them were left together.

How it’s used In 5 roles

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

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

5 occurrences in 3 groups

יוֹםday, time 3
קָצִירharvest 1
שֶׁמֶשׁsun 1

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

1 occurrences in 1 groups

צַחbrightly white 1

What it doesIt is the subject

3 occurrences in 3 groups

גָּזַלto seize 1
שָׁבַתto cease, to rest, to put an end 1
בּוֹאto come, to go in, to bring 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

6 occurrences in 3 groups

כlike/as 7
עַדto, as far as, until 2
בin/on/with 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

לֶחֶםbread, food 1

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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In the other Testament 1 word

καῦμα kaûma · G2738 · heat, scorching heat: Greek καῦμα emphasizes the burning/scorching quality of heat (often with connotations of intensity or distress), while Hebrew חֹם denotes heat more broadly as a thermal state or warmth, including milder warmth; both terms share the core semantic domain of elevated temperature and thermal intensity.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Hot002001001034: The word denotes heat as a physical quality or condition, as in Genesis 8:22's pairing of cold and heat among the seasons, and 1 Samuel 11:9's reference to the heat of the day.

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×חֹםchôm · H2527חַמָּן chammân · H2553 · incense altar · 8×חַמָּה chammâh · H2535 · heat, sun · 6×חָם châm · H2525 · father-in-law, warm, hot · 2×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2527. chom חֹם noun masculineJer 17:8 heat; — חֹם absolute Gen 8:22 Gen 8:3t. + 1Sa 21:7…

H2527. chom
חֹם noun masculineJer 17:8 heat; — חֹם absolute Gen 8:22 Gen 8:3t. + 1Sa 21:7 (see below); construct Gen 18:1+ 3t.; of heat of (mid-) day היום חֹם Gen 18:1 (J), 1Sa 11:11; 2Sa 4:5; in promise of regular seasons Gen 8:22 (opposed to קֹר); compare Isa 18:4 (twice in verse) (׳ח קָצִיר); but as dangerous to plant-life Jer 17:8; it melts snow Job 24:19; חֹם לֶחֶם 1Sa 21:7 bread of heat = hot bread, read perhaps ׳ל חָם (as Jos 9:12).

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Hot10 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

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

חֹם