yacham · mate, be in heat

What it means

yacham (יָחַם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “mate, be in heat”.

Be in heat, mate (said of animals).

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. For male and female to come together to have young.
2. For a woman to begin to expect a child, to conceive it in her womb.
3. For the body or heart to feel heat, sometimes of anger.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• hot ×2
• mated ×2
• can there be warmth ×1
• conceived me ×1
• get warm ×1
• they might mate ×1
• was in heat ×1
• were mating ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×5
• Deuteronomy×1
• 1 Kings×1
• Psalms×1
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Ezekiel×1

• Genesis 30:38

  He set the rods that he had peeled in the channels, in the watering troughs, where the flocks came to drink, in front of the flocks; and they mated when they came to drink.

• Genesis 30:39

  The flocks mated in front of the rods, and the flocks bore young striped, speckled, and spotted.

• Genesis 30:41

  Whenever the stronger of the flock were mating, Jacob would put the rods before the eyes of the flock in the channels, so that they might mate among the rods;

• Genesis 31:10

  It happened at the time when the flock was in heat that I lifted my eyes and saw in a dream, and look, the male goats that were mounting the flock were streaked, speckled, and mottled.

• Deuteronomy 19:6

  so that the avenger of blood does not pursue the manslayer while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him mortally, though he did not deserve a sentence of death, since he did not hate him previously.

• 1 Kings 1:1

  Now King David was old, advanced in days; and they covered him with clothes, but he could not get warm.

• Psalms 51:5

  Look, in iniquity I was brought forth, and in sin my mother conceived me.

• Ecclesiastes 4:11

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

• Ezekiel 24:11

  And set it empty on its coals, so that it may get hot and its bronze may become red-hot, and its uncleanness may melt in its midst, its rust be consumed.

And 1 more times.