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title: חָם — husband’s father · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חָם (2525), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 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:** 2 times · **Key:** 2525 · **BDB:** חָם³

### Glosses

\[are\].hot (1); hot (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

husband’s father [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2525/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. husband’s father [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2525/#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, 0 of its verses cited, 0 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, 0 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/1495/2525/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 37:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.37.17/)

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אֲשֶׁר־בְּגָדֶ֥יךָ חַמִּ֑ים בְּהַשְׁקִ֥ט אֶ֝֗רֶץ מִדָּרֽוֹם׃

*Word for word:* \[you\].whom clothes your \[are\].hot when is.still \[the\].earth from.\[the\] south

*JPS 1917:* Thou whose garments are warm, when the earth is still by reason of the south wind;

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[Joshua 9:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.9.12/)

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זֶ֣ה ׀ לַחְמֵ֗נוּ חָ֞ם הִצְטַיַּ֤דְנוּ אֹתוֹ֙ מִבָּ֣תֵּ֔ינוּ בְּי֥וֹם צֵאתֵ֖נוּ לָלֶ֣כֶת אֲלֵיכֶ֑ם וְעַתָּה֙ הִנֵּ֣ה יָבֵ֔שׁ וְהָיָ֖ה נִקֻּדִֽים׃

*Word for word:* this bread \[is\].our hot we.took.as.our.provisions it from homes our on the.day we came.out to come to you and now here! it.has.dried.up and it.has.been crumbs

*JPS 1917:* This our bread we took hot for our provision out of our houses on the day we came forth to go unto you; but now, behold, it is dry, and is become crumbs.

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