חַמָּן
chammân · kham-mawn'
a sun-pillar
Lexicon
Derivation: from H2535 (חַמָּה);
a sun-pillar
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: idol, image.
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
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to separate and protect › water, chaos, the mighty deep › the seed, life continuing
To separate and protect of water, chaos, the mighty deep of the seed, life continuing.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of חַמָּן 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
8 occurrences · 8 OT · 0 NT · 7 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and the images2 · 25%
- and your images2 · 25%
- your images1 · 13%
- all the idols1 · 13%
- or the images1 · 13%
- and images1 · 13%
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.