chom · heat

What it means

chom (חֹם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “heat”.

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. The warm glare of the day or sun.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• heat ×10
• hot ×3
• warmth ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• 1 Samuel×3
• 2 Samuel×1
• Nehemiah×1
• Job×2
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×2
• Haggai×1

• Genesis 8:22

  While all the days of the earth remain, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will not cease.”

• Genesis 18:1

  YHWH appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, while he was sitting at the entrance of the tent in the heat of the day.

• 1 Samuel 11:9

  They said to the messengers who had come, “Thus you shall say to the men of Jabesh-gilead: ‘Tomorrow you will have salvation, when the sun is hot.’” The messengers came and told the men of Jabesh, and they rejoiced.

• 1 Samuel 11:11

  And it came about on the next day that Saul put the people in three groups, and they came into the midst of the camp in the watch of the morning, and they struck Ammon until the heat of the day. And those who remained scattered, and not two of them were left together.

• 1 Samuel 21:6

  So the priest gave him holy bread, for there was no bread there except the bread of the presence that had been removed from before YHWH, to put hot bread there on the day it was taken away.

• 2 Samuel 4:5

  The sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, set out and came in the heat of the day to the house of Ish-bosheth, as he was lying down for the midday rest.

• Nehemiah 7:3

  And I said to them, “The gates of Jerusalem are not to be opened until the sun is hot; and while they are standing, let them shut the doors and bar them; and appoint guards from the inhabitants of Jerusalem, each at his guard and each in front of his house.”

• Job 6:17

  When they grow warm, they vanish; in the heat they are extinguished from their place.

• Job 24:19

  Drought and heat seize the waters of snow; Sheol, those who have sinned.

• Isaiah 18:4

  For thus YHWH said to me: “I will be still and look from my dwelling place, like dazzling heat over the light, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”

• Jeremiah 17:8

  And he will be like a tree planted by the waters, and by the stream it sends out its roots; and it will not see when heat comes, and its leaf will be flourishing; and in the year of drought it will not be anxious, nor cease from bearing fruit.

• Jeremiah 51:39

  In their heat I will set out their feasts and make them drunk, so that they may exult, and sleep an eternal sleep and not wake up, declares YHWH.

• Haggai 1:6

  You have sown much, and bring in little; you eat, and there is no satisfaction; you drink, and there is no drunkenness; you clothe yourselves, and there is no warmth for anyone; and the one who earns wages earns wages for a bag with holes.

And 1 more times.