חֶמֶד
chemed · H2531 · Hebrew · 6 occurrences
Meanings
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desirability, fruitfulness or fertility
The state in which objects have such a high quality that they provoke in others the desire to possess them
ExamplesIsaiah 27:2 On that day, “A vineyard of beauty, sing of it!
Isaiah 32:12 Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine,
Amos 5:11 Therefore because you impose heavy rent on the poor And take a tribute of grain from them, Though you have built houses of cut stone, Yet you will not live in them; You have planted beautiful vineyards, yet you will not drink their wine.
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attractiveness, beauty or charm
The state in which humans are so attractive that they provoke in others the desire to have a sexual relationship with them
ExamplesEzekiel 23:6 who were clothed in purple, governors and officials, all of them handsome young men, horsemen riding on horses.
Ezekiel 23:12 “She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and officials, the ones near, opulently dressed, horsemen riding on horses, all of them handsome young men.
Ezekiel 23:23 the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them; handsome young men, governors and officials all of them, officers and men of renown, all of them riding on horses.
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
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
6 occurrences in 3 groups
- בָּחוּרyoung man 3
- כֶּרֶםvineyard 2
- שָׂדֶהfield, countryside 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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Near synonyms 1 word
- נֹעַם nôʻam · H5278 · loveliness, pleasantness, delight
- חֶמֶד emphasizes desirability (what evokes desire); נֹעַם emphasizes pleasantness and aesthetic beauty (intrinsic quality).
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Good002001001031
- The word describes something as desirable or pleasant in quality, matching the adjectival sense of the same root used for goodly, precious, or pleasant things.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2531. chemed חֶ֫מֶד noun [masculine] desire, delight — absolute ׳ח Amo 5:11+ 4 t.; only…
חֶ֫מֶד noun [masculine] desire, delight — absolute ׳ח Amo 5:11+ 4 t.; only after a construct; ׳כַּרְמֵיחֿ נְטַעְתֶּם Amo 5:11vineyards of desire (i.e. delightful vineyards) have ye planted; so read also Isa 27:2 (for חֶמֶר כֶּרֶם ᵑ0) Manuscripts HCT ᵐ5 van d. H Lo Hi Ew De Di Che Du; so of fields ח ׳שְׁדֵי Isa 32:12; elsewhere of young men ח ׳בַּחוּרֵי Eze 23:6, Eze 23:12, Eze 23:23 desirable young men = fine, attractive, young men.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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