Word

יָחַם

yâcham · H3179 · Hebrew · 6 occurrences

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Meanings

to mate

Process by which female animals are in the physical state required to conceive offspring

Examples
Genesis 30:38 He set the rods which he had peeled in front of the flocks in the drinking troughs, that is, in the watering channels where the flocks came to drink; and they mated when they came to drink.
Genesis 30:39 So the flocks mated by the rods, and the flocks delivered striped, speckled, and spotted offspring.
Genesis 30:41 Moreover, whenever the stronger of the flock were mating, Jacob would place the rods in the sight of the flock in the drinking troughs, so that they would mate by the rods;
to conceive

Process by which humans become pregnant

Examples
Psalm 51:5 Behold, I was brought forth in guilt, And in sin my mother conceived me.

How it’s used In 4 roles

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

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

6 occurrences in 4 groups

צֹאןflock, small cattle, sheep and goats 3
אֵםmother 1
הָher 1
Not stated: they 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

נִיme 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

4 occurrences in 4 groups

אֵלto, toward+ מַקֵּלstaff, rod, branch 1
בin/on/with+ חֵטְאguilt 1
בin/on/with+ מַקֵּלstaff, rod, branch 1
בin/on/with+ בּוֹאto come, to go in, to bring 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

לto/for 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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Semantic domains 2 entries

Copulate002003001004: יָחַם describes animals mating or coming into heat, as Jacob's flocks bred in front of the striped rods he set at the watering troughs (Genesis 30:38-39, 41).
Pregnant002001001045: יָחַם extends to conceiving as a result of that mating, describing the flocks becoming pregnant by the rods Jacob placed before them.

Word family 3 words

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

יָחַםyâcham · H3179חֵמָה chêmâh · H2534 · poison, venom, aggression · 125×חֱמָא chĕmâʼ · H2528 · fury · 2×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3179. yacham [יָחַם] verb be hot, Pi`el conceive (Arabic see inclauerunt pecora, Frey;…

H3179. yacham
[יָחַם] verb be hot,
Pi`el conceive (Arabic see inclauerunt pecora, Frey; Aramaic יְחַם be hot, usually of sexual impulse of animals) —
Qal see חמם.
Pi`el Perfect3feminine singular suffix יֶחֱמַתְנִי Psa 51:7 in sin my mother conceived me (|| חוֺלָ֑לְתִּי); Infinitive construct of heat of cattle in breeding, conception; בְּכָליַֿחֵם Gen 30:41 at every breeding-heat of the flock (J); יַחֵם בְּעֵת Gen 31:10 at the time of the flock's being hot in breeding (E); suffix 3 feminine plural לְיַחֲמֶנָּה Gen 30:41 in order that they might have breeding-heat (J).

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

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Pregnant1 occurrence Copulate5 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