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Lexicon :: Strong's H3179 - yāḥam

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יָחַם
Transliteration
yāḥam
Pronunciation
yaw-kham'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 860

Strong’s Definitions

יָחַם yâcham, yaw-kham'; a primitive root; probably to be hot; figuratively, to conceive:—get heat, be hot, conceive, be warm.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 10x

The KJV translates Strong's H3179 in the following manner: conceive (6x), hot (2x), heat (1x), warm (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 10x
The KJV translates Strong's H3179 in the following manner: conceive (6x), hot (2x), heat (1x), warm (1x).

  1. to be hot, conceive

    1. (Qal)

      1. to be hot, become hot

      2. to mate (of animals)

      3. to be or become hot (fig. of anger)

    2. (Piel)

      1. to conceive (sexually)

      2. to be in heat (of animals)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
יָחַם yâcham, yaw-kham'; a primitive root; probably to be hot; figuratively, to conceive:—get heat, be hot, conceive, be warm.
STRONGS H3179: Abbreviations
† [יָחַם] verb be hot,
Pi. conceive (Arabic bdb040401 see inclauerunt pecora, Frey; Aramaic יְחַם be hot, usually of sexual impulse of animals) —
Qal see חמם.
Pi. Perfect 3rd person feminine singular suffix יֶחֱמַתְנִי Psalm 51:7 in sin my mother conceived me (|| חוֺלָ֑לְתִּי); Infinitive construct of heat of cattle in breeding, conception; בְּכָליַֿחֵם Genesis 30:41 at every breeding-heat of the flock (J); בְּעֵת יַחֵם Genesis 31:10 at the time of the flock's being hot in breeding (E); suffix 3rd person feminine plural לְיַחֲמֶנָּה Genesis 30:41 in order that they might have breeding-heat (J).

Biblical Aramaic

יחם (√ of following; see Biblical Hebrew יָחַם, whence חֵמָה).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

30:41; 30:41; 31:10

Psalms

51:7

H3179

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Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H3179 matches the Hebrew יָחַם (yāḥam),
which occurs 10 times in 9 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:38

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:38 - And he laid the rods which he had peeled, in the hollows of the watering-troughs, that whensoever the cattle should come to drink, as they should have come to drink before the rods, the cattle might conceive at the rods.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:39

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:39 - So the cattle conceived at the rods, and the cattle brought forth young speckled, and streaked and spotted with ash-coloured spots.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:41

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:41 - And it came to pass in the time wherein the cattle became pregnant, conceiving in the belly, Jacob put the rods before the cattle in the troughs, that they might conceive by the rods.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:10 - And it came to pass when the cattle conceived and were with young, that I beheld with mine eyes in sleep, and behold the he-goats and the rams leaping on the sheep and the she-goats, speckled and variegated and spotted with ash-coloured spots.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:6 - Lest the avenger of blood pursue after the slayer, because his heart is hot, and overtake him, if the way be too long, and [fn]slay him, though there is to this man no sentence of death, because he hated him not in time past.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:1 - And king David was old and advanced in days, and they covered him with clothes, and he was not warmed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 51:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 51:5 - (LXX 50:7) For, behold, I was conceived in iniquities, and in sins did my mother conceive me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:11 - Also if two should lie together, they also get heat: but how shall one be warmed alone?

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:11 - and that it may stand upon the coals, that her brass may be thoroughly heated, and be melted in the midst of her filthiness, and her scum may be consumed,
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