חָמַם chamam
Hebrew word for “to warm” · Strong’s H2552 · used 21 times in 19 verses
Meaning
1) to be hot, become warm;
How it is translated
Glosses given for chamam in context, with how often each is used:
- warm 6
- will be warm 2
- became warm 2
- hot 2
- will be hot 1
- heat 1
- warmed himself 1
- keeps them warm 1
- became hot 1
- will it be warm 1
- who inflame yourselves 1
- when getting heated they 1
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Isaiah | 5 | 0.3 | |
| Job | 3 | 0.4 | |
| 1 Kings | 2 | 0.2 | |
| Ecclesiastes | 2 | 0.7 | |
| Exodus | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Deuteronomy | 1 | 0.1 | |
| 2 Kings | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Nehemiah | 1 | 0.2 | |
| Psalms | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Jeremiah | 1 | 0.0 | |
| Ezekiel | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Hosea | 1 | 0.4 |
Also in 1 more book.
Chapters where it is used most
1 Kings 1 (2), Isaiah 44 (2), Exodus 16 (1), Deuteronomy 19 (1), 2 Kings 4 (1), Nehemiah 7 (1), Job 6 (1), Job 31 (1), Job 39 (1), Psalms 39 (1)
Forms
- יחם 4
- וחם 3
- ויחם 2
- חם 2
- בחמו 1
- יתחמם 1
- תחמם 1
- חמותי 1
- לחמם 1
- הנחמים 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with chamam more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- אוּר ur “flame” 2
- שָׁכַב shakhav “to lie down” 3
- גַּחֶלֶת gechel “coal” 2
- שָׁכַר shakhar “be drunk” 2
- אַיִן ayin “nothing” 4
- אֵשׁ esh “fire” 3
- הֶם hem “them” 4
- עָמַד amad “to stand” 3
- יֶלֶד yeled “youth” 2
- בָּעַר baar “to burn” 2
- שָׂרַף saraph “to burn” 2
- אָכַל akhal “to eat” 3
Key verses
The verses using chamam that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Exodus 16:21 — And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted.
- Deuteronomy 19:6 — 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…
- 1 Kings 1:1 — Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat.
- 1 Kings 1:2 — Wherefore his servants said unto him, Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand before the king, and let her cherish him, and…
- Psalms 39:3 — My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,
- Isaiah 44:15 — Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take thereof, and warm himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread; yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth…
- Isaiah 47:14 — Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm…
- Isaiah 57:5 — Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?
- Jeremiah 51:39 — In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.
- Ezekiel 24:11 — Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of it may be hot, and may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the scum of it…
- Hosea 7:7 — They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me.
- Haggai 1:6 — Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and…
See all 19 verses in the Word Atlas
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.