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title: חֶמֶד — desire · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חֶמֶד (2531), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 6 times: desire. BDB 1906: desire, delight. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חֶמֶד

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«חֶמֶד» in the Tanakh dictionary: **desire** — 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:** 6 times · **Key:** 2531 · **BDB:** חֶ֫מֶד

### Glosses

of.desire (6)

### Meaning (OSHB)

desire [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2531/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

desire, delight [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2531/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] desire, delight—abs. ח׳ Am 5:11 + 4 times; only after a cstr.; כַּרְמֵי־ח׳ נְטַעְתֶּם Am 5:11 vineyards of desire (i.e. delightful vineyards) have ye planted; so read also Is 27:2 (for MT כֶּרֶם חֶמֶר) Codd. ℌ 𝔊 van d. H. Lo Hi Ew De Di Che Du; so of fields שְׂדֵי ח׳ Is 32:12; elsewhere of young men בַּחוּרֵי ח׳ Ez 23:6, 12, 23 desirable young men = fine, attractive, young men.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חֶמֶד» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2531/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 32:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.32.12/)

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עַל־שָׁדַ֖יִם סֹֽפְדִ֑ים עַל־שְׂדֵי־חֶ֕מֶד עַל־גֶּ֖פֶן פֹּרִיָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* on breasts mourning on fields of.desire on vine\[s\] fruitful

*JPS 1917:* Smiting upon the breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine;

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[Isaiah 27:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.27.2/)

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בַּיּ֖וֹם הַה֑וּא כֶּ֥רֶם חֶ֖מֶדעַנּוּ־לָֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* in the day (the) that a.vineyard of.desire sing of it

*JPS 1917:* In that day sing ye of her: 'A vineyard of foaming wine!'

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