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# הוֹהָם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1944

**Hoham** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Hoham [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1944/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

הוֹהָם: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1944/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. Canaanitish king of Hebron Jos 10:3.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Hoham (1).

## In the verses

[Joshua 10:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.10.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.10.3/#tree)

וַיִּשְׁלַ֨ח אֲדֹנִי־צֶ֜דֶקאֲדֹנִי־צֶ֜דֶק מֶ֣לֶךְ יְרוּשָׁלִַ֗ם אֶל־הוֹהָ֣ם מֶֽלֶךְ־חֶ֠בְרוֹן וְאֶל־פִּרְאָ֨ם מֶֽלֶךְ־יַרְמ֜וּת וְאֶל־יָפִ֧יעַ מֶֽלֶךְ־לָכִ֛ישׁ וְאֶל־דְּבִ֥יר מֶֽלֶךְ־עֶגְל֖וֹן לֵאמֹֽר׃

*Word for word:* and he.sent Adoni-Zedek Adoni-Zedek the.king of.Jerusalem to Hoham the.king of.Hebron and to Piram the.king of.Jarmuth and to Japhia the.king of.Lachish and to Debir the.king of.Eglon (cmp)

*JPS 1917:* Wherefore Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem sent unto Hoham king of Hebron, and unto Piram king of Jarmuth, and unto Japhia king of Lachish, and unto Debir king of Eglon, saying:

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1944.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1944/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).