Strong's Lexicon

H3179

H3179 — יָחַם

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

Hebrewyachamverb-stemOccurrences: 10TWOT: 860

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:H3179
Word:יָחַם
Part of Speech:verb-stem
Etymology:a primitive root
Language:Hebrew
Occurrences:10
Transliteration:yacham
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:yaw-kham'
Meaning:1. probably to be hot 2. (figuratively) to conceive
KJV Renderings:get heat, be hot, conceive, be warm.

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced

BDB3520

[יָחַם] verb be hot, Pi`el conceive (Arabic [untranscribed source text 2212] see inclauerunt pecora, Frey; Aramaic יְחַם be hot, usually of sexual impulse of animals) —

Qal see חמם .
Pi`el Perfect 3 feminine singular suffix יֶחֱמַתְנִי Ps 51:7 in sin my mother conceived me (|| חוֺלָ֑לְתִּי); Infinitive construct of heat of cattle in breeding, conception; בְּכָליַֿחֵם Gen 30:41 at every breeding-heat of the flock ( J ); בְּעֵת יַחֵם Gen 31:10 at the time of the flock's being hot in breeding ( E ); suffix 3 feminine plural לְיַחֲמֶנָּה Gen 30:41 in order that they might have breeding-heat ( J ).


BDB9578

יחם (√ of following; see Biblical Hebrew יָחַם , whence חֵמָה).


Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

יחם (yah-gham’)

Genesis 30:38

KJV: And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.
EHCC: that they should conceive when they came

Deuteronomy 19:6

KJV: Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past.slay…: Heb. smite him in lifein…: Heb. from yesterday the third day
EHCC: while his heart is hot,

1 Kings 1:1

KJV: Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat.stricken…: Heb. entered into days
EHCC: they covered him with clothes, but he gat

Ecclesiastes 4:1

KJV: So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.side: Heb. hand
EHCC: how can one be warm (alone) ?

Psalms 51:5

KJV: Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.conceive…: Heb. warm me
EHCC: (7).in sin did my mother coxceive me.

Genesis 30:41

KJV: And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.
EHCC: whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive,

Genesis 31:10

KJV: And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the rams which leaped upon the cattle were ringstraked, speckled, and grisled.rams: or, he goats
EHCC: the time that the cattle pene,
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