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# חָלַם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2492

**be healthy** — used 2 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

be healthy [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2492/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָלַם: vb. be healthy, strong [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2492/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be healthy, strong (NH id.; Aramaic ܚܠܰܡ Ethp. be made healthy, strong Aph. causat., also deriv.; חֲלַם press firmly together)— Impf. יַחְלְמוּ בְנֵיהֶם Jb 39:4 their young are healthy. Impf. 2 ms. וְתַחֲלִימֵנִי Is 38:16 and restore me to health (‖ וִהַחֲיֵ֫ינִי).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: may (1); they become strong (1).

## In the verses

[Job 39:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.4/#tree)

יַחְלְמ֣וּ בְ֭נֵיהֶם יִרְבּ֣וּ בַבָּ֑ר יָ֝צְא֗וּ וְלֹא־שָׁ֥בוּ לָֽמוֹ׃

*Word for word:* they.become.strong young their they.grow in the open they.go.forth and not they.return to them

*JPS 1917:* Their young ones wax strong, they grow up in the open field; they go forth, and return not again.

[Isaiah 38:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.38.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.38.16/#tree)

אֲדֹנָ֖י עֲלֵיהֶ֣ם יִֽחְי֑וּ וּלְכָל־בָּהֶן֙ חַיֵּ֣י רוּחִ֔י וְתַחֲלִימֵ֖נִי וְהַחֲיֵֽנִי׃

*Word for word:* Lord my on them people.live and to all in them the.life my.spirit my and may you.restore.me.to.health and preserve me.alive

*JPS 1917:* O Lord, by these things men live, and altogether therein is the life of my spirit; wherefore recover Thou me, and make me to live.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2492.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2492/): 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).