chamad · desire

What it means

chamad (חָמַד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “desire”.

Find something attractive; "desirable", pleasant to look at. The same verb is "covet" in the commandments.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To desire something strongly, especially what belongs to another.
2. What is desirable, valuable.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• covet ×6
• desirable ×4
• desired ×3
• greatly loved ×3
• desire ×2
• precious ×2
• Delicate ×1
• I coveted them ×1
• I delighted ×1
• delight ×1
• others ×4

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Exodus×3
• Deuteronomy×2
• Joshua×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×3
• Proverbs×4
• Song of Songs×1
• Isaiah×3
• Daniel×6
• Micah×1

• Genesis 2:9

  And YHWH Elohim made every tree sprout from the ground that is pleasing to the sight and good for food, and the tree of life in the middle of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

• Genesis 3:6

  And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable for gaining insight; and she took of its fruit and ate, and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate.

• Exodus 20:17

  You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male slave, or his female slave, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”

• Exodus 34:24

  For I will dispossess nations before you and enlarge your territory, and no man shall covet your land when you go up to appear before YHWH your Elohim three times in the year.

• Deuteronomy 5:21

  Nor shall you covet your neighbor’s wife; nor shall you desire your neighbor’s house, his field, or his male slave, or his female slave, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”

• Deuteronomy 7:25

  The carved images of their gods you shall burn with fire. You shall not covet the silver and gold on them or take it for yourself, lest you be ensnared by it, for it is an abomination to YHWH your Elohim.

• Joshua 7:21

  I saw among the spoil one fine cloak from Shinar, and two hundred shekels of silver, and one tongue of gold whose weight was fifty shekels; and I coveted them and took them. And look, they are hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver under it.”

• 2 Chronicles 20:25

  Jehoshaphat and his people came to plunder their spoil, and they found among them in abundance goods and corpses and precious objects, and they stripped them for themselves until they could carry no more; and they were three days plundering the spoil, for it was much.

• Job 20:20

  For he did not know tranquility in his belly; nothing of what he covets will he rescue.

• Psalms 19:10

  More desirable than gold, and than much fine gold; and sweeter than honey and than the drippings of the honeycomb.

• Psalms 39:11

  With rebukes for iniquity you correct a man, and you melt away like a moth what he treasures; only a vapor is every human being. Selah.

• Psalms 68:16

  Why do you look with hostility, mountains of peaks, at the mountain Elohim desired to dwell in? Yes, YHWH will dwell there forever.

• Proverbs 1:22

  “How long, simple ones, will you love simpleness, and scoffers delight in scoffing for themselves, and the senseless hate knowledge?

• Proverbs 6:25

  Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her take you with her eyelids.

• Proverbs 12:12

  The wicked desires the net of evil men, but the root of the righteous gives fruit.

• Proverbs 21:20

  Desirable treasure and oil are in the dwelling of the wise, but a senseless man swallows it up.

• Song of Songs 2:3

  Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest, so is my beloved among the boys; in his shade I delighted and sat, and his fruit was sweet to my palate.

• Isaiah 1:29

  For they will be ashamed of the terebinths that you desired, and you will blush for the gardens that you chose.

• Isaiah 44:9

  Those who form carved images, all of them are emptiness, and their desired things do not profit; and their witnesses, they do not see and do not know, so that they will be put to shame.

• Isaiah 53:2

  And he grew up like a young shoot before him, and like a root from a dry land; he had no form nor majesty that we should look at him, nor appearance that we should desire him.

• Daniel 9:23

  At the beginning of your supplications a word went out, and I have come to declare it, for you are greatly loved; so understand the word and comprehend the vision.

• Daniel 10:3

  Delicate food I did not eat, and meat and wine did not enter my mouth, and I did not anoint myself at all, until three full weeks were completed.

• Daniel 10:11

  And he said to me, “Daniel, man greatly loved, understand the words that I am speaking to you, and stand where you stand, for now I have been sent to you.” And when he spoke with me this word, I stood up trembling.

• Daniel 10:19

  And he said, “Do not fear, man greatly loved; peace to you; be strong, yes, be strong.” And when he spoke with me, I was strengthened and said, “Let my lord speak, for you have strengthened me.”

• Daniel 11:38

  But the god of strongholds he will honor in his place; and a god that his fathers did not know he will honor with gold and with silver and with precious stones and with desirable things.

• Daniel 11:43

  And he will rule over the hidden treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt; and the Libyans and the Cushites will be at his steps.

• Micah 2:2

  And they covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them; and they exploit a man and his house, a person and his inheritance.

And 1 more times.