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# חָם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2524

**husband’s father** — 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

husband’s father [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2524/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָם³: n.m. husband’s father [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2524/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. husband’s father (NH id., of husband’s or wife’s father, so Aramaic חֲמָא; Arabic حَمٌّ husband’s male relation (father, brother, paternal uncle), but also wife’s father, etc.; Ethiopic ሐም Assyrian emu, ZimBP 48);—only sf. חָמִ֫יךָ Gn 38:13, 25, of Judah as Tamar’s father-in-law; חָמִ֫יהָ 1 S 4:19, 21 of Eli, father-in-law of Phinehas’ wife.

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, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: father-in-law (4).

## In the verses

[Genesis 38:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.38.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.38.13/#tree)

וַיֻּגַּ֥ד לְתָמָ֖ר לֵאמֹ֑ר הִנֵּ֥ה חָמִ֛יךְ עֹלֶ֥ה תִמְנָ֖תָה לָגֹ֥ז צֹאנֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and it.was.told to Tamar (cmp) there! father-in-law your \[is\].going.up to Timnah to shear sheep his

*JPS 1917:* And it was told Tamar, saying: 'Behold, thy father-in-law goeth up to Timnah to shear his sheep.'

[1 Samuel 4:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.4.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.4.21/#tree)

וַתִּקְרָ֣א לַנַּ֗עַר אִֽי־כָבוֹד֙אִֽי־כָבוֹד֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר גָּלָ֥ה כָב֖וֹד מִיִּשְׂרָאֵ֑ל אֶל־הִלָּקַח֙ אֲר֣וֹן הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים וְאֶל־חָמִ֖יהָ וְאִישָֽׁהּ׃

*Word for word:* and she.called (to) the lad Ichabod Ichabod (cmp) it.has.gone.into.exile glory from Israel because.of the.being.taken of.the.ark of.(the) God and because.of father-in-law her and husband her

*JPS 1917:* And she named the child Ichabod, saying: 'The glory is departed from Israel'; because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2524.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2524/): 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).