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title: חָלַם — be healthy · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חָלַם (2492), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: be healthy. BDB 1906: vb. be healthy, strong. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חָלַם

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«חָלַם» in the Tanakh dictionary: **be healthy** — 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:** 2 times · **Key:** 2492 · **BDB:** חָלַם

### Glosses

may (1); they.become.strong (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

be healthy [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2492/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. be healthy, strong [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2492/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be healthy, strong (NH id.; Aramaic ܚܠܰܡ Ethp. be made healthy, strong Aph. causat., also deriv.; חֲלַם press firmly together)— Impf. יַחְלְמוּ בְנֵיהֶם Jb 39:4 their young are healthy. Impf. 2 ms. וְתַחֲלִימֵנִי Is 38:16 and restore me to health (‖ וִהַחֲיֵ֫ינִי).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חָלַם» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2492/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 39:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.4/)

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יַחְלְמ֣וּ בְ֭נֵיהֶם יִרְבּ֣וּ בַבָּ֑ר יָ֝צְא֗וּ וְלֹא־שָׁ֥בוּ לָֽמוֹ׃

*Word for word:* they.become.strong young their they.grow in the open they.go.forth and not they.return to them

*JPS 1917:* Their young ones wax strong, they grow up in the open field; they go forth, and return not again.

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[Isaiah 38:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.38.16/)

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אֲדֹנָ֖י עֲלֵיהֶ֣ם יִֽחְי֑וּ וּלְכָל־בָּהֶן֙ חַיֵּ֣י רוּחִ֔י וְתַחֲלִימֵ֖נִי וְהַחֲיֵֽנִי׃

*Word for word:* Lord my on them people.live and to all in them the.life my.spirit my and may you.restore.me.to.health and preserve me.alive

*JPS 1917:* O Lord, by these things men live, and altogether therein is the life of my spirit; wherefore recover Thou me, and make me to live.

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