חָם
châm · khawm
a father-in-law (as in affinity)
Lexicon
Derivation: from the same as H2346 (חוֹמָה);
a father-in-law (as in affinity)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: father in law.
Letters
- חHet8
Picture: courtyard wall or enclosure
- Concrete
- wall · fence · tent wall
- Extended
- to separate · protection · the inside vs. the outside · private
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to separate and protect › water, chaos, the mighty deep
To separate and protect of water, chaos, the mighty deep.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of חָם above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
4 occurrences · 4 OT · 0 NT · 3 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- behold thy father in law1 · 25%
- to her father in law1 · 25%
- and that her father in law1 · 25%
- and because of her father in law1 · 25%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.