חֶמֶד
chemed · kheh'-med
delight
Lexicon
Derivation: from H2530 (חָמַד);
delight
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: desirable, pleasant.
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 חֶמֶד 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
6 occurrences · 6 OT · 0 NT · 4 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- all of them desirable2 · 33%
- of red wine1 · 17%
- for the pleasant1 · 17%
- with them: all of them desirable1 · 17%
- pleasant1 · 17%
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.