חֶמֶד
chemed · delight, pleasantness
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2531 · appears 6 times in the Bible
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chemed (חֶמֶד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “delight, pleasantness”.
Delight, something lovely and desired.
How to say it
che·med
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
- What is lovely and attractive: "lovely vineyard".
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- desirable young men ×3
- delight ×2
- pleasant ×1
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Isaiah 27:2
On that day: “A vineyard of delight, sing of it!
- Isaiah 32:12
On the breasts they beat themselves in lament, for the fields of delight, for the fruitful vine,
- Ezekiel 23:6
clothed in blue, governors and prefects, desirable young men all of them, horsemen riding horses.
- Ezekiel 23:12
With the sons of Assyria she was infatuated, governors and prefects, near ones, clothed to perfection, horsemen riding horses, desirable young men all of them.
- Ezekiel 23:23
the sons of Babylon and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, all the sons of Assyria with them, desirable young men, governors and prefects all of them, officers and renowned men, riding horses, all of them.
- Amos 5:11
Therefore, because you trample on the poor and take a levy of grain from him, houses of hewn stone you have built, but you will not live in them; pleasant vineyards you have planted, but you will not drink their wine.