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# חֶמֶד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2531

**desire** — used 6 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

desire [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2531/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֶ֫מֶד: desire, delight [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2531/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] desire, delight—abs. ח׳ Am 5:11 + 4 times; only after a cstr.; כַּרְמֵי־ח׳ נְטַעְתֶּם Am 5:11 vineyards of desire (i.e. delightful vineyards) have ye planted; so read also Is 27:2 (for MT כֶּרֶם חֶמֶר) Codd. ℌ 𝔊 van d. H. Lo Hi Ew De Di Che Du; so of fields שְׂדֵי ח׳ Is 32:12; elsewhere of young men בַּחוּרֵי ח׳ Ez 23:6, 12, 23 desirable young men = fine, attractive, young men.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of desire (6).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 32:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.32.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.32.12/#tree)

עַל־שָׁדַ֖יִם סֹֽפְדִ֑ים עַל־שְׂדֵי־חֶ֕מֶד עַל־גֶּ֖פֶן פֹּרִיָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* on breasts mourning on fields of.desire on vine\[s\] fruitful

*JPS 1917:* Smiting upon the breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine;

[Isaiah 27:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.27.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.27.2/#tree)

בַּיּ֖וֹם הַה֑וּא כֶּ֥רֶם חֶ֖מֶדעַנּוּ־לָֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* in the day (the) that a.vineyard of.desire sing of it

*JPS 1917:* In that day sing ye of her: 'A vineyard of foaming wine!'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2531.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2531/): 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).