Hebrew proper noun (a place) · H2431
חֵילָם
Chelamkhay-lawm'
Helam
2 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Chêylâm
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2431is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2431
Chelam, a place East of Palestine
The King James renders it: Helam.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Chelam is rendered "Helam". It stands 2 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Two of the uses stand in 2 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Samuel 10:16Hadadezer sent messengers to bring more Arameans from beyond the Euphrates, and they came to Helam with Shobach the commander of Hadadezer’s army leading them.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
Hadadezer sent messengers to bring more Arameans from beyond the Euphrates, and they came to Helam with Shobach the commander of Hadadezer’s army leading them.
2 Samuel 10:16חֵילָ֑ם
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's two uses are in 2 Samuel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Helam1
- Helam towards1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 2, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- חֵילָ֑ם1
- חֵלָ֑אמָה1
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)1HNpl
- proper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)1HNpl/Sd
2 Samuel
two uses
Hadadezer sent messengers to bring more Arameans from beyond the Euphrates, and they came to Helam with Shobach the commander of Hadadezer’s army leading them.
- חֵילָ֑םcheilamproper noun (a name)tagged: Helam
When this was reported to David, he gathered all Israel, crossed the Jordan, and went to Helam. Then the Arameans arrayed themselves against David and fought against him.
- חֵלָ֑אמָהchelamahproper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: Helam towards
The letters
Gematria 88· 648 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.