Word Study · Strong's H2527 · Hebrew
חֹם
chom
khome
Strong's 1890 spelling: chôm
“heat”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
heat
Rendered in the KJV as
heat, to be hot (warm).
- 10occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 6 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 7inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 10 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 7
- חֹ֔ם2
- כְּחֹ֥ם2
- כְּחֹ֣ם2
- בְּחֹ֥ם1
- וָחֹ֜ם1
- חֹ֣ם1
- חֹ֗ם1
How it is rendered · 7
- heat3
- when [the] heat of2
- [the] heat of1
- and heat1
- in [the] heat of1
- like [the] heat of1
- like heat1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 4
- preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)5
- noun · masculine singular3
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular1
- verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HR/Vqcc · 5
- HNcmsa · 3
- HC/Ncmsa · 1
- HVqcc · 1
All 10, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
1 Samuel carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.
Genesis2 occurrences
- Genesis 8:22וָחֹ֜םvachomconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singularAs long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”here: and heat
- Genesis 18:1כְּחֹ֥םkechompreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)Then the LORD appeared to Abraham by the Oaks of Mamre in the heat of the day, while he was sitting at the entrance of his tent.here: when [the] heat of
1 Samuel3 occurrences
- 1 Samuel 11:9כְּחֹ֣םkechompreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)So they said to the messengers who had come, “Tell the men of Jabesh-gilead: ‘Deliverance will be yours tomorrow by the time the sun is hot.’” And when the messengers relayed this to the men of Jabesh, they rejoiced.here: like [the] heat of
- 1 Samuel 11:11חֹ֣םchomverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)The next day Saul organized the troops into three divisions, and during the morning watch they invaded the camp of the Ammonites and slaughtered them, until the hottest part of the day. And the survivors were so scattered that no two of them were left together.here: [the] heat of
- 1 Samuel 21:6חֹ֔םchomnoun · masculine singularSo the priest gave him the consecrated bread, since there was no bread there but the Bread of the Presence, which had been removed from before the LORD and replaced with hot bread on the day it was taken away.here: heat
Isaiah2 occurrences
- Isaiah 18:4כְּחֹ֥םkechompreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)For this is what the LORD has told me: “I will quietly look on from My dwelling place, like shimmering heat in the sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”here: like heat
- Isaiah 18:4בְּחֹ֥םbechompreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)For this is what the LORD has told me: “I will quietly look on from My dwelling place, like shimmering heat in the sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”here: in [the] heat of