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# יָחַם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3179

**be hot** — 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

be hot [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3179/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יָחַם: vb. be hot Pi. conceive [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3179/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be hot, Pi. conceive (Arabic وَحَمَ v. incaluerunt pecora, Frey; Aramaic יְחַם be hot, usually of sexual impulse of animals)— v. חמם. Pf. 3 fs. sf. יֶחֱמַתְנִי ψ 51:7 in sin my mother conceived me (‖ חוֹלָ֑לְתִּי); Inf. cstr. of heat of cattle in breeding, conception; בְּכָל־יַחֵם Gn 30:41 at every breeding-heat of the flock (J); בְּעֵת יַחֵם 31:10 at the time of the flock’s being hot in breeding (E); sf. 3 fpl. לְיַחֲמֶנָּה (v. GK. 91f) 30:41 in order that they might have breeding-heat (J).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 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: they were in heat (2); she (1); the being in heat (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 51:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.51.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.51.7/#tree)

הֵן־בְּעָו֥וֹן חוֹלָ֑לְתִּי וּ֝בְחֵ֗טְא יֶֽחֱמַ֥תְנִי אִמִּֽי׃

*Word for word:* here! in iniquity I.was.brought.forth and in sin she conceived.me mother my

*JPS 1917:* Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.

[Genesis 30:39](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.30.39/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.30.39/#tree)

וַיֶּחֱמ֥וּ הַצֹּ֖אן אֶל־הַמַּקְל֑וֹת וַתֵּלַ֣דְןָ הַצֹּ֔אן עֲקֻדִּ֥ים נְקֻדִּ֖ים וּטְלֻאִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and they.were.in.heat the flock to the branches and they.bore the flock striped.\[ones\] speckled.\[ones\] and spotted.\[ones\]

*JPS 1917:* And the flocks conceived at the sight of the rods, and the flocks brought forth streaked, speckled, and spotted.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3179.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3179/): 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).