חָמַד
châmad · khaw-mad'
to delight in
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to delight in
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: beauty, greatly beloved, covet, delectable thing, ([idiom] great) delight, desire, goodly, lust, (be) pleasant (thing), precious (thing).
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
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to separate and protect › water, chaos, the mighty deep › the doorway, the way in
To separate and protect of water, chaos, the mighty deep of the doorway, the way in.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of חָמַד 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
25 occurrences · 25 OT · 0 NT · 23 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- to be desired2 · 10%
- thou shalt not covet2 · 10%
- desireth2 · 10%
- that is pleasant1 · 5%
- desire1 · 5%
- neither shalt thou desire1 · 5%
- thou shalt not desire1 · 5%
- then i coveted1 · 5%
- of that which he desired1 · 5%
- more to be desired1 · 5%
- thou makest his beauty1 · 5%
- delight1 · 5%
- lust1 · 5%
- with great delight1 · 5%
- which ye have desired1 · 5%
- and their delectable things1 · 5%
- that we should desire1 · 5%
- and they covet1 · 5%
Where it is used, by book.
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.