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title: חוּם — darkened · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חוּם (2345), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 4 times: darkened. BDB 1906: adj. darkened, dark brown black. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חוּם

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«חוּם» in the Tanakh dictionary: **darkened** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 4 times · **Key:** 2345 · **BDB:** חוּם

### Glosses

dark (2); dark.\[one\] (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

darkened [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2345/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj. darkened, dark brown black [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2345/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj. darkened, dark brown or black, only of colour of sheep (in Gn 30, J);—וכל־שֶׂה־חוּם בכשׂבים Gn 30:32, וְחוּם בכ׳ Gn 30:33, 35, וכל־חוּם בְּצֹאן Gn 30:40 (cl. prob. interpol. Ol Hup De We Di).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (11 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (7 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חוּם» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2345/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 30:32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.30.32/)

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אֶֽעֱבֹ֨ר בְּכָל־צֹֽאנְךָ֜ הַיּ֗וֹם הָסֵ֨ר מִשָּׁ֜ם כָּל־שֶׂ֣ה ׀ נָקֹ֣ד וְטָל֗וּא וְכָל־שֶׂה־חוּם֙ בַּכְּשָׂבִ֔ים וְטָל֥וּא וְנָקֹ֖ד בָּעִזִּ֑ים וְהָיָ֖ה שְׂכָרִֽי׃

*Word for word:* let.me.pass in all flock your this day I.will.remove from there every sheep speckled and spotted and every sheep dark among the.young rams and.\[the\] spotted and.\[the\] speckled among the goats and it.will.be wage\[s\] my

*JPS 1917:* I will pass through all thy flock to-day, removing from thence every speckled and spotted one, and every dark one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats; and of such shall be my hire.

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[Genesis 30:40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.30.40/)

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וְהַכְּשָׂבִים֮ הִפְרִ֣יד יַעֲקֹב֒ וַ֠יִּתֵּן פְּנֵ֨י הַצֹּ֧אן אֶל־עָקֹ֛ד וְכָל־ח֖וּם בְּצֹ֣אן לָבָ֑ן וַיָּֽשֶׁת־ל֤וֹ עֲדָרִים֙ לְבַדּ֔וֹ וְלֹ֥א שָׁתָ֖ם עַל־צֹ֥אן לָבָֽן׃

*Word for word:* and the.young rams he.separated Jacob and he.set the.faces of the.flock to \[the\].striped and every dark.\[one\] among the.flock of.Laban and he.made for himself flocks himself alone and not he put.them with the.flock of.Laban

*JPS 1917:* And Jacob separated the lambs — he also set the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the dark in the flock of Laban — and put his own droves apart, and put them not unto Laban's flock.

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