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# חָם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2525

**husband’s father** — 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

husband’s father [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2525/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָם³: n.m. husband’s father [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2525/#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, 0 of its verses cited, 0 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, 0 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[are\] hot (1); hot (1).

## In the verses

[Job 37:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.37.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.37.17/#tree)

אֲשֶׁר־בְּגָדֶ֥יךָ חַמִּ֑ים בְּהַשְׁקִ֥ט אֶ֝֗רֶץ מִדָּרֽוֹם׃

*Word for word:* \[you\].whom clothes your \[are\].hot when is.still \[the\].earth from.\[the\] south

*JPS 1917:* Thou whose garments are warm, when the earth is still by reason of the south wind;

[Joshua 9:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.9.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.9.12/#tree)

זֶ֣ה ׀ לַחְמֵ֗נוּ חָ֞ם הִצְטַיַּ֤דְנוּ אֹתוֹ֙ מִבָּ֣תֵּ֔ינוּ בְּי֥וֹם צֵאתֵ֖נוּ לָלֶ֣כֶת אֲלֵיכֶ֑ם וְעַתָּה֙ הִנֵּ֣ה יָבֵ֔שׁ וְהָיָ֖ה נִקֻּדִֽים׃

*Word for word:* this bread \[is\].our hot we.took.as.our.provisions it from homes our on the.day we came.out to come to you and now here! it.has.dried.up and it.has.been crumbs

*JPS 1917:* This our bread we took hot for our provision out of our houses on the day we came forth to go unto you; but now, behold, it is dry, and is become crumbs.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2525.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2525/): 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).