חָמֻשׁ
châmush · khaw-moosh'
staunch, i.e. able-bodied soldiers
Lexicon
Derivation: passive participle of the same as H2570 (חֹמֶשׁ);
staunch, i.e. able-bodied soldiers
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: armed (men), harnessed.
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
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to separate and protect › water, chaos, the mighty deep › to consume, to destroy
To separate and protect of water, chaos, the mighty deep that works to consume, to destroy.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of חָמֻשׁ 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 · 4 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- armed2 · 50%
- harnessed1 · 25%
- of the armed men1 · 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.