chamam · be warm

What it means

chamam (חָמַם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “be warm”.

Be hot, grow warm.

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 receive warmth and stop being cold.
2. To burn with lust for idols.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• grew hot ×2
• warms himself ×2
• I am warm ×1
• became warm ×1
• grow hot ×1
• he was not warmed ×1
• may get warm ×1
• they have warmth ×1
• warming oneself ×1
• warms them ×1
• others ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Kings×1
• Job×2
• Psalms×1
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Isaiah×5
• Hosea×1

• Exodus 16:21

  They gathered it morning by morning, each according to what he could eat; and when the sun grew hot, it melted.

• 1 Kings 1:2

  And his servants said to him, “Let them seek for my lord the king a young woman, a virgin, and let her stand before the king and be his caretaker; and let her lie in your bosom, so that my lord the king may get warm.”

• 2 Kings 4:34

  He went up and lay on the child and put his mouth on his mouth, his eyes on his eyes, and his hands on his hands; and he stretched himself on him, and the flesh of the child became warm.

• Job 31:20

  if his loins did not bless me, and he was not warmed with the fleece of my lambs,

• Job 39:14

  For she leaves on the earth her eggs, and on the dust warms them,

• Psalms 39:3

  My heart grew hot within me; in my murmuring a fire burned; I spoke with my tongue:

• Ecclesiastes 4:11

  Also, if two lie down, they have warmth; but for one how can there be warmth?

• Isaiah 44:15

  And it serves a human being for burning; he takes some of them and warms himself; also he kindles a fire and bakes bread; also he makes a god and bows down; he makes it a carved image and falls down before it.

• Isaiah 44:16

  Half of it he burns in the fire; over half of it he eats meat; he roasts a roast and is satisfied; also he warms himself and says, “Aha, I am warm, I have seen the blaze!”

• Isaiah 47:14

  Look, they are like stubble; fire burns them; they will not deliver their soul from the hand of the flame; there is no coal for warming oneself, no fire to sit before.

• Isaiah 57:5

  who inflame yourselves among the terebinths, under every leafy tree, who slaughter the children in the streambeds, under the clefts of the rocks?

• Hosea 7:7

  All of them grow hot like an oven, and they devour their judges; all their kings have fallen; there is no one among them who calls to me.

And 1 more times.