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Strong's #2552: chamam (pronounced khaw-mam')

a primitive root; to be hot (literally or figuratively):--enflame self, get (have) heat, be (wax) hot, (be, wax) warm (self, at).




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

châmam

1) to be hot, become warm

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to be or grow warm

1a2) of passion (figuratively)

1b) (Niphal) to become aroused, inflame oneself with

1c) (Piel) to warm

1d) (Hithpael) to warm oneself

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Same Word by TWOT Number: 677



Usage:

This word is used 16 times:

Exodus 16:21: "every man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted."
1 Kings 1:2: "in thy bosom, that my lord the king may get heat."
2 Kings 4:34: "himself upon the child; and the flesh of the child waxed warm."
Nehemiah 7:3: "be opened until be hot; and while they stand by, let them shut"
Job 31:20: "his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece"
Job 39:14: "leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in"
Psalms 39:3: "My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: I with my tongue,"
Ecclesiastes 4:11: "if two lie together, then they have heat: but how be warm"
Isaiah 44:15: "to burn: for he will take thereof, and warm he kindleth it, and baketh bread;"
Isaiah 44:16: "roast, and is satisfied: yea, he warmeth himself, and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen"
Isaiah 44:16: "he warmeth himself, and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire:"
Isaiah 47:14: "from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before"
Isaiah 57:5: " Inflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, the children"
Ezekiel 24:11: "the coals thereof, that the brass of it may be hot, and may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in"
Hosea 7:7: " They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all"
Haggai 1:6: "but ye have not enough; but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages"









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