חִנָּם chinnam

Hebrew word for “for nothing” · Strong’s H2600 · used 32 times in 31 verses

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Meaning

1) freely, for nothing, without cause;

How it is translated

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

• without cause 19
• nothing 5
• without paying 4
• vain 3
• ¿ in vain 1

Where it is used

Also in 3 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Exodus 21 (2), Psalms 35 (2), Proverbs 1 (2), Isaiah 52 (2), Genesis 29 (1), Numbers 11 (1), 1 Samuel 19 (1), 1 Samuel 25 (1), 2 Samuel 24 (1), 1 Kings 2 (1)

Forms

• חנם 31
• החנם 1

Words used with it

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

• דָּם dam “blood” 4
• קָנָה qanah “to buy” 3
• כֶּסֶף keseph “silver” 4
• נִי ni “me” 5
• פֶּצַע petsa “wound” 2
• רֶשֶׁת reshet “net” 2
• שָׂטָן satan “Satan” 2
• עָבַד avad “to serve” 3
• אֹיֵב oyev “enemy” 3
• צִפּוֹר tsippor “bird” 2
• נָקִי naqi “innocent” 2
• אִיּוֹב iyyov “Job” 2

Key verses

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

• 1 Samuel 19:5 — For he did put his life in his hand, and slew the Philistine, and the LORD wrought a great salvation for all Israel: thou sawest it, and didst rejoice:…
• Job 2:3 — And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth…
• Job 9:17 — For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
• Psalms 35:7 — For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.
• Psalms 35:19 — Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.
• Psalms 69:4 — They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored…
• Psalms 109:3 — They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.
• Proverbs 1:11 — If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
• Proverbs 23:29 — Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
• Isaiah 52:5 — Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my…
• Jeremiah 22:13 — Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour’s service without wages, and giveth him not for…
• Malachi 1:10 — Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for nought? neither do ye kindle fire on mine altar for nought. I have no pleasure in you, saith the LORD…

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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.