חִנָּם
chinnâm · khin-nawm'
gratis, i.e. devoid of cost, reason or advantage
Lexicon
Derivation: from H2580 (חֵן);
gratis, i.e. devoid of cost, reason or advantage
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: without a cause (cost, wages), causeless, to cost nothing, free(-ly), innocent, for nothing (nought, in vain.
Letters
- חHet8
Picture: courtyard wall or enclosure
- Concrete
- wall · fence · tent wall
- Extended
- to separate · protection · the inside vs. the outside · private
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
- 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 › the seed, life continuing › water, chaos, the mighty deep
To separate and protect of the seed, life continuing of water, chaos, the mighty deep.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of חִנָּם 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
32 occurrences · 32 OT · 0 NT · 12 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- without cause7 · 22%
- for nought4 · 13%
- me without a cause3 · 9%
- causeless2 · 6%
- me for nought1 · 3%
- for nothing1 · 3%
- free1 · 3%
- freely1 · 3%
- without a cause1 · 3%
- of that which doth cost me nothing1 · 3%
- the innocent1 · 3%
- without cost1 · 3%
- him without cause1 · 3%
- for without cause1 · 3%
- which without cause1 · 3%
- against me without a cause1 · 3%
- surely in vain1 · 3%
- yourselves for nought1 · 3%
- without wages1 · 3%
- in vain1 · 3%
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.