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Strong's #2559: chamaq (pronounced khaw-mak')

a primitive root; properly, to wrap; hence, to depart (i.e. turn about):--go about, withdraw self.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

châmaq

1) to withdraw, turn around, turn away

1a) (Qal) to turn away

1b) (Hithpael) to turn about, vacillate, turn hither and thither

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Same Word by TWOT Number: 682



Usage:

This word is used 2 times:

Song of Solomon 5:6: "opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spoke:"
Jeremiah 31:22: "How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? the LORD hath created"









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