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# כִּמְהָם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3643

**Chimham** — 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

Chimham [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3643/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כִּמְהָם: n.pr.m. n.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3643/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. attendant of David 2 S 19:38, 39 = כִּמְהָן v 41; 𝔊 in all Χιμααμ, 𝔊L Αχιμααμ. in n.loc. גֵּרוּת כִמְהָם Je 41:17 Qr (Kt כמוהם), cf. גֵּרוּת p. 158 supr.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Kimham (3); Kimhan (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 41:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.41.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.41.17/#tree)

וַיֵּלְכ֗וּ וַיֵּֽשְׁבוּ֙ בְּגֵר֣וּת כִּמְהָ֔ם אֲשֶׁר־אֵ֖צֶל בֵּ֣ית לָ֑חֶם בֵּ֣ית לָ֑חֶם לָלֶ֖כֶת לָב֥וֹא מִצְרָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* and they.went and they.remained at Geruth Kimham which \[is\].beside Bethlehem Bethlehem to go to go Egypt

*JPS 1917:* and they departed, and dwelt in Geruth Chimham, which is by Beth-lehem, to go to enter into Egypt,

[2 Samuel 19:41](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.19.41/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.19.41/#tree)

וַיַּעֲבֹ֤ר הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ הַגִּלְגָּ֔לָה וְכִמְהָ֖ן עָבַ֣ר עִמּ֑וֹ וְכָל־עַ֤ם יְהוּדָה֙ הֶעֱבִ֣ירוּ אֶת־הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ וְגַ֕ם חֲצִ֖י עַ֥ם יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* and he.passed.over the king to (the) Gilgal and Kimhan he.passed.over with him and all the.people of.Judah they.brought.over (et) the king and also (the).half of.the.people of.Israel

*JPS 1917:* So the king went over to Gilgal, and Chimham went over with him; and all the people of Judah brought the king over, and also half the people of Israel.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3643.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3643/): 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).