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# חוּם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2345

**darkened** — used 4 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

darkened [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2345/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חוּם: adj. darkened, dark brown black [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2345/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. darkened, dark brown or black, only of colour of sheep (in Gn 30, J);—וכל־שֶׂה־חוּם בכשׂבים Gn 30:32, וְחוּם בכ׳ Gn 30:33, 35, וכל־חוּם בְּצֹאן Gn 30:40 (cl. prob. interpol. Ol Hup De We Di).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (11 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: dark (2); dark \[one\] (2).

## In the verses

[Genesis 30:32](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.30.32/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.30.32/#tree)

אֶֽעֱבֹ֨ר בְּכָל־צֹֽאנְךָ֜ הַיּ֗וֹם הָסֵ֨ר מִשָּׁ֜ם כָּל־שֶׂ֣ה ׀ נָקֹ֣ד וְטָל֗וּא וְכָל־שֶׂה־חוּם֙ בַּכְּשָׂבִ֔ים וְטָל֥וּא וְנָקֹ֖ד בָּעִזִּ֑ים וְהָיָ֖ה שְׂכָרִֽי׃

*Word for word:* let.me.pass in all flock your this day I.will.remove from there every sheep speckled and spotted and every sheep dark among the.young rams and.\[the\] spotted and.\[the\] speckled among the goats and it.will.be wage\[s\] my

*JPS 1917:* I will pass through all thy flock to-day, removing from thence every speckled and spotted one, and every dark one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats; and of such shall be my hire.

[Genesis 30:40](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.30.40/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.30.40/#tree)

וְהַכְּשָׂבִים֮ הִפְרִ֣יד יַעֲקֹב֒ וַ֠יִּתֵּן פְּנֵ֨י הַצֹּ֧אן אֶל־עָקֹ֛ד וְכָל־ח֖וּם בְּצֹ֣אן לָבָ֑ן וַיָּֽשֶׁת־ל֤וֹ עֲדָרִים֙ לְבַדּ֔וֹ וְלֹ֥א שָׁתָ֖ם עַל־צֹ֥אן לָבָֽן׃

*Word for word:* and the.young rams he.separated Jacob and he.set the.faces of the.flock to \[the\].striped and every dark.\[one\] among the.flock of.Laban and he.made for himself flocks himself alone and not he put.them with the.flock of.Laban

*JPS 1917:* And Jacob separated the lambs — he also set the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the dark in the flock of Laban — and put his own droves apart, and put them not unto Laban's flock.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2345.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2345/): 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).