חֹם
chôm · khome
heat
Lexicon
Derivation: from H2552 (חָמַם);
heat
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: heat, to be hot (warm).
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 חֹם 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
10 occurrences · 10 OT · 0 NT · 7 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and heat2 · 14%
- in the heat2 · 14%
- be hot2 · 14%
- until the heat1 · 7%
- hot1 · 7%
- about the heat1 · 7%
- when it is hot1 · 7%
- heat1 · 7%
- when heat1 · 7%
- in their heat1 · 7%
- you, but there is none warm1 · 7%
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.