חָמַם
châmam /khaw-mam'/ Audio pronunciations are computer-generated and may not be fully accurate. Provided as a convenience only.
How the KJV Renders It
Strong’s lists the renderings but not their weight. These are counted from the King James text of the tagged verses — the bar under each is how often the translators actually reached for it. Select one to filter the occurrences below.
Grammatical Forms
In the Hebrew Old Testament, this word appears as a verb and a noun across 22 occurrences, inflected in 12 grammatical forms — each row is one form, and the bar is how often it is that form. Select any form to read what each part of its name means, and to filter the occurrence list to it. The King James text tags 13 English words with this number, so the two totals can differ a little. These are this word’s own inflections, not words built from it — for those, see Related Words.
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חֹם
- Qal
- The simple, basic stem — plain action in the active voice.
- Infinitive Construct
- The ordinary verbal noun — "to do", often after a preposition ("when he came").
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יֵחַם
- Qal
- The simple, basic stem — plain action in the active voice.
- Imperfect
- Ongoing or repeated action in the past — "was doing".
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Singular
- One.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
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חַם
- Qal
- The simple, basic stem — plain action in the active voice.
- Consecutive Perfect
- Perfect with vav — continues a sequence into the future.
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Singular
- One.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
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יָּחָם
- Qal
- The simple, basic stem — plain action in the active voice.
- Consecutive Imperfect
- Imperfect with vav — carries narrative forward ("and he…").
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Singular
- One.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
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יִתְחַמָּם
- Hithpael
- Reflexive-intensive — the subject acts upon itself.
- Imperfect
- Ongoing or repeated action in the past — "was doing".
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Singular
- One.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
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נֵּחָמִים
- Niphal
- Simple passive or reflexive of the Qal.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective — describes while carrying the verb's action.
- Plural
- More than one.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun (not bound to another).
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תְּחַמֵּם
- Piel
- The intensive stem — strengthened or emphatic action.
- Imperfect
- Ongoing or repeated action in the past — "was doing".
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Singular
- One.
- Feminine
- Feminine grammatical gender.
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יֵחַמּוּ
- Qal
- The simple, basic stem — plain action in the active voice.
- Imperfect
- Ongoing or repeated action in the past — "was doing".
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Plural
- More than one.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
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תֵּחַם
- Qal
- The simple, basic stem — plain action in the active voice.
- Imperfect
- Ongoing or repeated action in the past — "was doing".
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Singular
- One.
- Feminine
- Feminine grammatical gender.
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חַמּוֹתִי
- Qal
- The simple, basic stem — plain action in the active voice.
- Perfect
- A completed act whose results continue.
- 1st
- First person — the speaker ("I"/"we").
- Singular
- One.
- common gender
- Either gender — the form does not distinguish.
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חַם
- Qal
- The simple, basic stem — plain action in the active voice.
- Perfect
- A completed act whose results continue.
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Singular
- One.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
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לַחְמָ
- Singular
- One.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
- Construct
- Bound to a following noun — "the X of…".
Biblical Distribution
Appears in 12 verses across 8 of the 39 books. Most frequent in Isaiah (4 verses); never once in the other 31.
Every Occurrence
Every verse where the word is tagged in the King James text. Filter by book, by the English word the translators chose, by grammatical form, or search within the verses.
Sources. Definition and numbering: James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890). Morphology: STEPBible / Tyndale House (CC BY). Verse tagging: the King James text keyed to Strong’s numbers. Every count on this page is computed from the tagged corpus, not estimated.