חֹם chom

Hebrew word for “heat” · Strong’s H2527 · used 10 times in 9 verses

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Meaning

heat, hot

How it is translated

Glosses given for chom in context, with how often each is used:

• heat 6
• when the heat 2
• like the heat 1
• like heat 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

1 Samuel 11 (2), Genesis 8 (1), Genesis 18 (1), 1 Samuel 21 (1), 2 Samuel 4 (1), Job 24 (1), Isaiah 18 (1), Jeremiah 17 (1)

Forms

• כחם 4
• חם 4
• וחם 1
• בחם 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with chom more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• קָצִיר qatsir “harvest” 2
• מַי mayim “water” 2
• כֹּה koh “thus” 2
• שׂוּם sum “to set” 2
• רָאָה raah “to see” 2

Key verses

The verses using chom that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 8:22 — While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
• Genesis 18:1 — And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
• 1 Samuel 11:9 — And they said unto the messengers that came, Thus shall ye say unto the men of Jabesh-gilead, To morrow, by that time the sun be hot, ye shall have help. And…
• 1 Samuel 11:11 — And it was so on the morrow, that Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the midst of the host in the morning watch, and slew the Ammonites…
• 1 Samuel 21:6 — So the priest gave him hallowed for there was no bread there but the shewbread, that was taken from before the LORD, to put hot bread in the day when it was…
• 2 Samuel 4:5 — And the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went, and came about the heat of the day to the house of Ish-bosheth, who lay on a bed at noon.
• Job 24:19 — Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.
• Isaiah 18:4 — For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat…
• Jeremiah 17:8 — For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.