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title: חָם — husband’s father · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חָם (2524), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 4 times: husband’s father. BDB 1906: n.m. husband’s father. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חָם

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«חָם» in the Tanakh dictionary: **husband’s father** — 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:** 2524 · **BDB:** חָם³

### Glosses

father-in-law (4)

### Meaning (OSHB)

husband’s father [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2524/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. husband’s father [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2524/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. husband’s father (NH id., of husband’s or wife’s father, so Aramaic חֲמָא; Arabic حَمٌّ husband’s male relation (father, brother, paternal uncle), but also wife’s father, etc.; Ethiopic ሐም Assyrian emu, ZimBP 48);—only sf. חָמִ֫יךָ Gn 38:13, 25, of Judah as Tamar’s father-in-law; חָמִ֫יהָ 1 S 4:19, 21 of Eli, father-in-law of Phinehas’ wife.

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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, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (7 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חָם» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2524/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 38:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.38.13/)

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וַיֻּגַּ֥ד לְתָמָ֖ר לֵאמֹ֑ר הִנֵּ֥ה חָמִ֛יךְ עֹלֶ֥ה תִמְנָ֖תָה לָגֹ֥ז צֹאנֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and it.was.told to Tamar (cmp) there! father-in-law your \[is\].going.up to Timnah to shear sheep his

*JPS 1917:* And it was told Tamar, saying: 'Behold, thy father-in-law goeth up to Timnah to shear his sheep.'

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[1 Samuel 4:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.4.21/)

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וַתִּקְרָ֣א לַנַּ֗עַר אִֽי־כָבוֹד֙אִֽי־כָבוֹד֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר גָּלָ֥ה כָב֖וֹד מִיִּשְׂרָאֵ֑ל אֶל־הִלָּקַח֙ אֲר֣וֹן הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים וְאֶל־חָמִ֖יהָ וְאִישָֽׁהּ׃

*Word for word:* and she.called (to) the lad Ichabod Ichabod (cmp) it.has.gone.into.exile glory from Israel because.of the.being.taken of.the.ark of.(the) God and because.of father-in-law her and husband her

*JPS 1917:* And she named the child Ichabod, saying: 'The glory is departed from Israel'; because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband.

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